Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems team

We are a team of academics, researchers and students using our research expertise to solve grand challenges associated with energy systems.

Academic team
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Our research covers:

renewable energy systems and technology
life-cycle and whole-systems analysis
energy demand and low-energy systems
bio-based systems
energy vector development, storage, and creation
industrial decarbonisation
scalable whole energy network modelling and optimisation

Director

Professor Marcelle McManus, Professor of energy and environmental engineering

Deputy Directors

Professor Furong Li, Professor in electronic and electrical engineering
Dr Sanjay Nagarajan, Lecturer in chemical engineering
Dr Anna Young, Senior Lecturer in mechanical engineering

Academic and research staff

Dr Stephen Allen, Senior Lecturer in energy and environmental engineering
Dr Andrew Barnes, Lecturer
Professor Steve Cayzer, Professor
Dr Dan Chen, Lecturer
Dr Yang Chen, Lecturer
Dr Sam Cooper, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Dr Soheil Davari, Senior Lecturer
Dr Brit Davidson, Senior Lecturer
Dr Elies Dekoninck, Senior Lecturer
Dr Christina Demski, Reader
Dr Xiang Ding, Research Associate
Dr Madhurima Dutta, Research Associate
Dr Chukwudi Emelue, Research Associate
Dr Chenghong Gu, Reader in electronic and electrical engineering
Dr Will Hawkins, Lecturer
Dr Alfred Hill, Lecturer in chemical engineering
Dr Shiqi Huang, Lecturer
Dr Winifred Huang, Senior Lecturer
Dr Zheng-Yang Huo, Marie Curie fellow
Dr Rajan Jagpal, Research Associate
Dr Ajeet Kumar, Research Associate
Dr Qi Liu, Lecturer
Dr Rick Lupton, Senior Lecturer in mechanical engineering
Dr Veronica Ferrandiz-Mas, Lecturer
Professor Tim Mays, Professor of chemical and materials engineering
Dr Lewis McDonald, Research Associate
Dr Murat Mustafa, Lecturer
Professor Sukumar Natarajan, Professor
Dr Loizos Pelecanos, Lecturer in geotechnical engineering
Dr Benedek Plosz, Reader in chemical engineering
Dr Oliver Pountney, Senior lecturer
Dr Ben Radley, Lecturer
Dr Cormac Reale, Lecturer in geotechnical engineering
Dr Paul Romain, Research Associate
Dr James Scobie, Senior Lecturer
Dr Adwait Sharma, Lecturer
Dr Andrew Shea, Senior Lecturer in building physics
Dr Laiz Souto De Carvalho, Lecturer
Dr Hui Tang, Lecturer in mechanical engineering
Professor Edmund Thompson, Professor
Dr Jiawen Xi, Research Associate
Professor Jun Zang, Professor of coastal and ocean engineering
Dr Quanren Zeng, Lecturer
Dr Jing Zhang, Research Assistant
Dr Shuya Zhong, Senior Lecturer

Doctoral students

Management, Specialist, and Administrative

Jie Xu, Programmes Administrative Assistant