Our people
The Energy and Environment Institute brings together world-leading academics from diverse disciplines, working with practitioners, professionals and the community to address climate change impacts and secure a zero carbon future.
Our research community
Our vibrant research community brings together academic, technical, and professional staff working collaboratively to tackle key challenges across energy and the environment, alongside over 100 PhD students contributing to a dynamic and innovative research culture.
Professor James Gilbert
EEI Director
Jim is a Professor of Engineering, working on initiatives relating to offshore wind energy, energy resilience and wider issues of sustainability.
Dr Giles Davidson
Strategic Projects Lead
Giles focuses on strategic EEI projects, including bringing the Ark-National Flood Resilience Centre to fruition.
Dr Steven Forrest
Lecturer in Flood Hazard and Risk
Steven’s research focuses on bridging the theory-practice gap in flood resilience with a particular emphasis on governance, civil society, and serious gaming.
Dr Ben Kolosz
Lecturer in Renewable Energy and Carbon Removal
Ben works at the interface between renewable energy and carbon removal, assessing the energy needs of technological systems as well as their societal impacts.
Professor Briony McDonagh
Coast-R Network Lead
Briony’s research focuses on community engagement for climate and water action. She leads the Coast-R Network and the Leverhulme Centre for Water Cultures.
Professor Stuart McLelland
EEI Deputy Director
Stuart focuses on physical modelling of flow processes and sediment transport dynamics, and leads the Aura CDT's PGDip Offshore Wind & the Environment.
Dr Steve Simmons
Lecturer in Energy and Environment
Develops our understanding of sedimentary processes through the application of novel acoustic measurements of flow and sediment transport.
Dr Kate Smith
Lecturer in Flood Risk Management
Kate's research centres around the interactions between water, people, landscape and identity, and in participatory methodologies and thematic analysis.
Dr Robert Thomas
Lecturer in Geomorphology and Flood Risk
Rob develops novel technologies to study hydraulics, sediment transport, slope stability and the impacts of flora and fauna on those processes.
Dr Grigorios Vasilopoulos
Lecturer in Geospatial and Earth Observation
Greg's research interests are centred on understanding Earth surface processes and morphodynamics.
Dr Andrew Want
Lecturer in Renewable Energy
Andrew's research explores the interactions between the offshore renewable energy industry and the marine environment.
Dr Cheng Zeng
Lecturer in Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technologies
Cheng's research is in sustainable building services, renewable energy, energy-efficient technologies, and low-carbon solutions aimed at driving net-zero ambitions.
| Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Joanna Arnett | EEI Operations Coordinator | eei@hull.ac.uk |
| Dr Ed Brookes | Knowledge Translation Fellow | e.brookes@hull.ac.uk |
| Lisa Dearing | EEI Administrator | eei@hull.ac.uk |
| Joanne Dewey | PGR Centres Manager | j.dewey@hull.ac.uk |
| Dr David Furnues | PDRA in Property Flood Resilience | d.furnues@hull.ac.uk |
| Dr Ellen Kujawa | Changing Coasts Research Fellow | E.Kujawa@hull.ac.uk |
| Brendan Murphy | Flume Experimental Officer & EEI Safety Officer | b.j.murphy@hull.ac.uk |
| Emma Platt-Lowe | Coast-R Programme Manager | e.platt-lowe@hull.ac.uk |
| Andrea Prince | EEI Operations Officer | a.prince@hull.ac.uk |
| Amy Richardson | EEI Marketing Manager | amy.richardson@hull.ac.uk |
| Dr Katerina Velentza | PDRA in Environmental Humanities | k.velentza@hull.ac.uk |
| Dr Hannah Worthen | Lecturer in Environmental Humanities | Hannah.Worthen@hull.ac.uk |
Associates
Dr Anna Bird
Lecturer in Geology
Anna is a lecturer in metamorphic geology who also works on Quaternary sediments.
Prof Stewart Mottram
Professor of Literature and Environment
Stewart specialises in environmental approaches to literature, focussing on the writing of flood risk regions across time.
Dr Vasiliki Skoulou
Lecturer
Vicky's research is focused in the field of thermochemical treatment (pyro-gasification processes) of lignocellulosic biomass residues/fossil fuels/waste for bioenergy-biofuels-biochemicals.
Honorary Fellows
Professor emerita Lynne Frostick
Lynne's specialisms are in flood and coastal risk management, ecohydraulics and estuarine hydraulics and sedimentation
Professor emeritus David Gibbs
David's research focuses on local and regional green economic development, sustainable cities and sustainability transitions theory
Fellow emerita Dr Jane Reed
Jane's expertise is mainly in diatom-based palaeoecological reconstruction of long-term climate change from analysis of lake sediment cores.
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