Centre for Regenerative Design & Engineering for a Net Positive World team

We are an interdisciplinary team of academics and researchers developing engineering and design solutions to environmental, societal and economic challenges.

Research expertise

water and chemical:
- safe and sustainable water management
- flooding
- chemical, biochemical and photocatalytic reactions and reactors
materials and composites:
- low-cost, bio-inspired and ecologically responsive
- structural dynamics
place making:
- history and theory architecture
- conservation and heritage
- urban design, infrastructure, mobility
- low-carbon and low-energy building design

Centre Director

Professor Sukumar Natarajan

Deputy Directors

Dr Juliana Calabria-Holley, Lecturer
Dr Emma Emanuelsson Patterson, Senior Lecturer

Academic staff

Dr Taghried Abdelmagid, Lecturer
Dr Kemi Adeyeye, Senior Lecturer
Dr Dima Albadra, Lecturer
Dr Noaman G Ali, Lecturer
Dr Thomas Arnot, Senior Lecturer
Dr Richard Ball, Reader
Dr Elisabeth Barratt Hacking, Deputy Head of Department of Education
Dr Sara Biscaya, Senior Lecturer
Dr Lee Bryant, Senior Lecturer
Professor Steve Cayzer, Professor
Dr Anna Chatzimichali, Senior Lecturer
Professor David Coley, Professor
Dr Yang Chen, Lecturer
Professor Antony Darby, professor
Dr Elies Dekoninck, Senior Lecturer
Dr Christina Demski, Reader
Dr Emma Emanuelsson Patterson, Senior Lecturer
Professor Pedro Estrela, Professor
Dr Mark Evernden, Senior Lecturer
Dr Veronica Ferrandiz-Mas, Lecturer
Dr Robert Grover, Senior Lecturer
Dr Chenghong Gu, Reader
Dr Tim Harrell, Lecturer
Professor Marion Harney, Professor
Dr David Hassell, Senior Lecturer
Dr Sophia Hatzisavvidou, Senior Lecturer
Dr Will Hawkins, Lecturer
Professor Jan Hofman
Dr Aoife Houlihan Wiberg, Senior Lecturer
Dr Winifred Huang, Senior Lecturer
Dr Zheng-Yang Huo, Marie Curie Fellow
Dr Alejandro Jimenez Rios, Lecturer
Dr Tristan Kershaw, Senior Lecturer
Dr Thomas Kjeldsen, Senior Lecturer
Dr Gavin Knowles, Lecturer
De Wenbin Li, Senior Lecturer
Dr Ellie Marsh, Research Associate
Dr Daniel Maskell, Senior Lecturer
Dr Nick McCullen, Senior Lecturer
Dr Laurent Perge, Lecturer
Dr Fulvio Pinto, Senior Lecturer
Dr Robert Proctor, Senior Lecturer
Brian Rutter, Senior Lecturer
Dr Ramtin Sabeti, Research Associate
Dr Paria Shojaei, Marie Curie Fellow
Dr Daniel Talesnik Yudelevich, Lecturer
Professor Edmund Thompson, Professor
Dr Qingping Wang, Research Associate
Professor Jun Zang, Professor
Dr Jie Zhang, Senior Lecturer

Centre for Regenerative Design & Engineering for a Net Positive World team

Research expertise

Centre Director

Deputy Directors

Academic staff

Doctoral students