Our people

Institute Director

Dan's research investigates how earth surface systems respond to climate and environmental change and explores societal adaptations to mitigate the impact of these changes.

Director – Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies

Xudong is a globally recognised energy researcher whose focus is around sustainable building services, renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Josh is a fluvial geomorphologist interested in large river morphodynamics, floodplain evolution, and channel behaviour on this planet and beyond.

Institute Administrator

Joanna provides administrative support to Energy and Environment Institute team assisting in supporting the Institute’s activities and operations.

Flood Resilience Innovation Centre Researcher

Muhammad is a biomedical and electrical engineer, working as a data scientist to develop ICT based data processing pipelines for remote sensing, digital health and internet of things.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Anne studies sediment transport processes and its effect on large-scale river and estuary morphology in numerical models

Research Fellow

Ali is a mechanical engineering graduate with a background in building energy research, and in low carbon building design and modelling.He is currently working on an intelligent cloud-based control strategy for a novel low-carbon solar-assisted heat pump heating system.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Elena’s research interest is morphodynamics and sediment transport.

Flood Resilience Innovation Centre Project Manager

Pip is responsible for operational management and project delivery of FLIC. She manages and oversees project finances and claims. Pip oversees project marketing and communications, as well as events delivery. She is also responsible for stakeholder relationship management.

Flood Resilience Innovation Centre Finance and Audit Officer

Alex is responsible for establishing, maintaining and managing FLIC monitoring and reporting systems, she does this with audit, complicance and eligbility checks. She also conducts and oversights periodic internal audits and project reviews.

Project Lead, Ark - National Flood Resilience Centre

Giles has led and developed a number of major projects at the University. Working with colleagues in the Energy and Environment Institute and project partners from the Humberside Fire and Rescue Service, he is currently focussed on bringing Ark-National Flood Resilience Centre to fruition. More information about Ark can be found at www.arkfloodcentre.co.uk

Executive Officer

As executive support to the Director of the Energy and Environment Institute Jo plays a key role in co-ordinating the Institute’s business, developing its activities, managing projects, and co-ordinating HR and finance functions.

Research Fellow

Rob’s research covers multiphase, turbulent and stratified flows and is applied to offshore wind, via the Aura partnership project.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Roberto is a fluvial geomorphologist interested in understanding the fluvial processes the shape the earth through experiments.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Civil Engineer interested in Environmental flows. Fluvial biogemorphology. Loose-boundary flows. Resilience and restoration of lakes. Rocio is working for the HYDRALAB+ Project.

Flood Resilience Innovation Centre Administrator Officer

Lizzie is responsible for all project related admin. She supports the FLIC team in establishing and maintaining appropriate administrative systems and processes. Collects and collates project data, particularly expenditure and outputs. She fields and redirects all incoming project specific enquiries.

Research Fellow

Chris' research focuses on earth surface processes and sedimentology and the processes and mechanisms of sediment transport, erosion and the subsequent morphodynamics of large river and deltaic systems.

Scientific Officer

Kit manages the Laser Ablation ICP-MS lab at the University of Hull, where he analyses a variety of materials on behalf of industry and academia. His personal research focus is on developing techniques for radiometric dating of deformed geological fabrics.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Lisa is researching the combination Hazard of Extreme rainfall, Surge and high Tide on estuarine infrastructure (CHEST).

Flood Resilience Innovation Centre Technology Research Manager

Hiatt works with SMEs to develop and support innovation projects, running diagnostics to determine the innovation intervention required, working collaboratively and developing tailored packages of support.

Flood Resilience innvoation Centre Business Development Manager

Liz works across the Humber LEP geography to proactively secure collaborative partnerships with SME’s across multiple sectors to identify product, service and process innovation supporting flood resilience, mitigation, adaption and response.

Flood Resilience innvoation Centre Technology Research Manager

Elena works with SMEs to develop and support innovation projects and assess projects, running diagnostics to determine the innovation intervention required. Elena also brokers and assembles tailored packages of support and works collaboratively with SMEs to deliver these projects.

Senior Research Fellow

Jing is working on the heat pump technology and has experiences in solar collector, solar PV, heat pipe and thermodynamic cycle.

Senior Research Fellow

Quiqiang Li's research covers solar energy, building energy saving, and other energy technologies.

Senior Research Fellow

Xiaoli's research interests are in renewable/Sustainable energy technologies, energy efficiency technologies and energy in the built environment

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Jonathan’s research concerns sediment transport processes associated with waves and currents in shallow water marine environments, using both computer models and experiments.

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography

Stuart's research focuses on physical modelling of flow processes and sediment transport dynamics.

Research Assistant

Agota is a civil engineer with a passion for wind energy, researching wave loading on offshore wind turbines and their dynamic structural responses.

Technician

Steve is currently working on a BEIS project developing a low carbon heating system for public buildings, using a combination of solar thermal panels, a novel heat exchange storage tank and an air source heat pump.

Research and Enterprise Senior Administrator

Andrea provides support to the Energy and Environment Institute team assisting in supporting the Institute’s activities and operations

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Sam is working with Living with Water in Hull and East Yorkshire to understand local residents' flood experience, knowledge and concerns, and to explore ‘resilience’– feeding results into policy and practice.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Karen is studying new biodegradable plastics and their impact on the environment using lab experiments and life cycle analysis.

Research Fellow

Christina works on the chemistry & interactions of organisms in future oceans using computational models, analytical chemistry and bioassays.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Steve is developing our understanding of sedimentary processes through the application of novel acoustic measurements of flow and sediment transport.

Research Fellow

Chris specialises in using computer models to see how floods change our landscapes and how these changes influence future flood risk.

Post Doctoral Research Assistant

Irene is an economist specialising in heterodox theories about money and finance. Her research for THYME project focuses on farmers’ markets as an example of the existing bioeconomy in East Yorkshire.

Aura CDT Programme Manager

Researcher for the Flood Resilience Innovation Centre

Kate is a post-doctoral researcher with interests in the cultural anthropology of water, landscapes and flooding.

THYME Programme Manager

Jenny is responsible for the delivery of the THYME programme, which looks to grow the regional bioeconomy in partnership with the Universities of York and Teesside and the regional industry partners.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Evdokia is working on Offshore Wind Farm wave forecasting using Machine Learning.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Martin’s research focus is in the use of heterogeneous catalysts in thermochemical reactions for the production and utilisation of solid and liquid biofuels as well as fine chemicals.

Senior Research Fellow

Rob's research centres around Geomorphology and Flood Risk with an interest in the development and use of novel technologies to study hydraulics, sediment transport, slope stability and the impacts of fauna and flora on those processes.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Greg’s interests are centred on understanding Earth surface processes and morphodynamics. He is currently looking at flood risk and resilience on the Mekong delta and how this may be altered in the future.

Lecturer in Renewable Energy

Simon’s interests centre around renewable energy and the use of regional-scale hydrodynamic modelling to support human activities, understand their effects, and improve planning and policymaking.

Senior Research Fellow

Zhangyuan is specialized in the sustainable energy technologies and green building involving solar energy and heat pipe technologies.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Hannah’s research uses physical modelling experiments at different scales to understand the potential impacts of climate change on the hydraulic and morphodynamic behaviour of natural systems.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Xuxu focuses on small-scale bedform (ripple) developed with cohesive materials including both physical and biological cohesion to quantify interactions of near-bed hydrodynamics, sediment transport dynamics and turbulence over developing bed.

Senior Research Fellow

Xin has expertise in latent thermal energy storage materials and systems; heat transfer enhancement with porous media and nano-materials; refrigeration and dew point air conditioning.

Flood Resilience Innovation Centre Technology Research Manager

Chun works with SMEs to develop and support innovation projects, running diagnostics to determine the innovation intervention required, working collaboratively and developing tailored packages of support.

Senior Research Fellow

Zishang is a multidisciplinary researcher interested in green-building and low-carbon city design/planning, sustainable building technology integration and Machine-Learning based building/city optimisation.