Dr Tristan Kershaw MPhys, PhD Dr Tristan Kershaw - Senior Lecturer
Tristan is a lecturer in climate resilience. He researches building physics, the urban heat island and the impact of climate change on the built environment.
Research
- Adapting urban areas to become resilient to the impacts of climate change
- Improving buildings to maintain performance over their whole life in the face of climate change
Projects
- UMBRELLA: Business model innovation for high-performance buildings supported by whole life optimisation (EU FP7)
This person is available to supervise research degree projects
Publications
Role
Dr Tristan Kershaw was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering in 2014.
Related posts
- Member of the Centre for Energy and the Environment
Career
After completing his PhD, he joined the Centre for Energy and the Environment at the University of Exeter as a research fellow in climate change adaptation.
Tristan received the CIBSE Napier Shaw Medal in 2012 for his part in the creation of probabilistic future weather years using the outputs of UKCP09 as part of the EPSRC-funded PROMETHEUS project.
Education
- MPhys, University of Exeter
- PhD in experimental low-temperature solid-state physics, University of Exeter