Dr Stephen Allen

• Gas Purification
• Low Carbon Fuels
• Sustainability and Low Carbon Transition

Prof Andrew Heath

• Design, construction and maintenance of transport infrastructure
• Sustainable transport planning and zero carbon transition
• Materials for sustainable transport infrastructure

Dr Nick McCullen

• Urban design and infrastructure
• Transport networks and mode choice
• Traffic and pollution

Dr Cormac Reale

• Transport infrastructure design and optimisation
• Infrastructure asset management and maintenance
• Geotechnical risk and uncertainty

Dr Antoine Buchard

• Sustainable polymers and plastics
• Sustainable resins and composite materials
• Sustainable polymer electrolytes for next-generation batteries

Prof Steve Bull

• Biorenewable fuels and products for the automobile industry
• Catalytic upgrading of biorenewable products
• Sustainable Chemical Supply Chains

Dr Simon Freakley

• Catalytic Materials for Energy and Chemical Conversions
• Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Production and Storage
• Selective Upgrading of Biomass towards Fuels

Dr Matthew Grayson

• Machine learning
• Fuel property prediction
• Chemical reaction modelling

Dr George Harrington

• Materials for energy conversion devices
• Solid oxide fuel/electrolyser cells
• Critical raw materials in energy devices

Dr Ulrich Hintermair

• Clean & Sustainable Combustion Fuels
• Catalytic Chemical Energy Conversion
• Biomass & CO2 Utilisation

Dr Andrew Johnson

• Tribology and Tribochemistry (lubrication additives and anti-wear additives)
• Energy Storage Materials: Atomic Layer and Chemical Vapour Deposition of materials for energy storage and coversion
• Micro- and nano-structured thin film materials

Prof Matthew Jones

• Recycling of plastics used in the automotive industry
• Catalysts for fuel production
• Production of plastics for the automotive industry

Dr David Liptrot

• Reactive main group systems
• Copper catalysis
• Mechanistic analysis of catalytic reactions

Prof Frank Marken

• Electrochemical processes and electroanalysis
• Energy conversion including photoelectrochemistry
• Innovative fuels and chemically stored energy

Prof Steve Parker

• Molecular simulation of materials structure, stability and transport
• Modelling storage and separation of fuels
• New materials for energy storage and generation

Dr Adam Squires

• Fuel cells: hydrogen, alcohol, and other fuels
• Electrocatalysis: oxygen reduction, water splitting, redox flow
• Mesoporous metals for high performance electrodes

Dr James Taylor

• Sustainable catalysis
• Catalytic upgrading of biorenewable resources
• Synthetic methodology development

Dr Ruth Webster

• Hydrogen release chemistry
• Iron catalysis
• Catalytic reaction mechanisms

Prof John Chew

• Air purification in transport systems
• Process modelling and optimisation of SCR catalytic converters
• Purification of exhaust gas

Prof Chris Chuck

• Sustainable biofuels
• Process scale up
• Yeast biotechnology

Prof Tina Düren

• Gas purification
• Low carbon fuels
• Novel simulation methods

Dr Antonio Exposito

• Low carbon fuels production by artificial photosynthesis
• Catalysis technologies for gas purification
• Reaction engineering in the automotive industry

Dr Alfred Hill

• Ammonia as a low-carbon fuel and energy storage media
• Energy systems and electromagnetic heat transfer
• Catalytic applications

Dr Matthew Lennox

• Air and exhaust gas purification
• Production and refining of low-carbon fuels
• Materials development for energy storage

Prof Tim Mays

• Low Carbon Fuels
• Sustainable hydrogen fuel
• Hydrogen storage

Dr Carmelo Herdes Moreno

• Molecular simulation of complex fluids and materials
• Rational design of sustainable E-Fluids
• Computational prediction of fluid thermodynamics properties, e.g. fuels, lubricants, greases and surfactants

Prof Semali Perera

• Low pressure drop structured adsorbent/ catalyst filters for air purification
• Air purification by functionalised membranes
• CO2 removal in enclosed spaces

Dr Ming Xie

• Energy efficient separation
• Low dimensional material for solar energy capture
• Nanofabrication for advanced manufactue

Dr Andrew Barnes

• Machine learning applications
• Anomaly and normality detection
• Operational AI systems

Dr Xi Chen

• Driving risk quantification and estimation
• Digital Systems and Optimisation
• Internet of vehicle and machine learning

Prof James Davenport

• Cybersecurity
• Algebraic Methods in Computing
• Secure programming

Dr Marina De Vos

• Intelligent systems
• Self-regulated systems
• Knowledge representation and reasoning

Dr Wenbin Li

• Driver and User Behaviour
• Digital Systems, Optimisation and Integration
• Application of Mathematics

Dr Crescent Jicol

• Driver and User Behaviour
• Novel experimental and simulation methods
• Autonomous driving system design

Dr Julian Padget

• (symbolic) knowledge representation and reasoning
• software agents and their governance
• agent-based modelling

Dr Jie Zhang

• Algorithmic game theory, digital economy, and dynamic pricing
• AI applications in transportation
• Blockchain technology for energy trading

Dr Ron Lavi

• Algorithmic design for smart transportation
• Resource allocation in smart transportation
• Dynamic Pricing and other Economic Mechanisms

Dr Tareq Assaf

• Digital Systems, Optimisation and Integration
• Driverless systems
• Propulsion Electrification

Dr Matthew Cole

• Nanoelectronics
• Sustainable Nanomaterial Growth
• Flexible Electronics

Prof Lewis Dale

Prof Adrian Evans

• Driver and User Behaviour
• Driver monitoring and authentication
• Interactions between autonomous driving modes and human users

Dr Jamie Gawith

• Wireless charging for EVs
• Propulsion electrification
• Magnetic materials for machines

Dr Chenghong Gu

• Impact of EV charging on electricity grid
• Climate change on EV driving
• Integrated energy economy and environment modelling

Prof Furong Li

• Grid integration of electric vehicles
• Enabling electricity markets for transition to zero emission vehicles
• Business models for flexible low carbon vehicles

Dr Benjamin Metcalfe

• Driver behaviour monitoring
• Novel sensing technologies
• Digital systems, optimisation and integration

Dr Ali Mohammadi

• Advanced MEMS Sensors for Electric Vehicle Safety
• Data Driven Tactile Feedback for Navigation in Cars
• Autonomous Sensors for Minimising the Environmental Impacts Automotive Sensors

Dr Xiaoze Pei

• Electric motor analysis, modelling, and validation
• Novel electric motors analysis and design
• Cryogenic and superconducting propulsion system

Nigel Turvey

• Integration of renewable generation and storage with end users low carbon technologies in electricity networks
• Electricity network security standards needed in smart grids
• Commercial frameworks to facilitate decarbonisation of electricity supply

Dr Robert Watson

• Vehicle Communications and Radar Systems
• Digital Systems, Optimisation and Integration
• Driver and User Behaviour

Prof Peter Wilson

• Power Electronics for EVs - including Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductors and Thermal Management
• Electric Vehicle Power Train Design Automation and Virtual Prototypin
• Battery Systems Design and Management Systems, and Thermal Systems Design

Dr Dingguo Zhang

• Human driving behaviour
• Brain-computer interfaces
• Human-machine systems

Prof Chris Budd

• Mathematical modelling
• Industrial applied mathematics
• Dynamical systems and chaos

Dr Matt Nunes

• Application of mathematicsin industrially-motivated problems
• Statistical modelling and forecasting
• Optimisation methods

Dr Tristan Pryer

• Application of Mathematics
• Propulsion Electrification
• Digital Systems, Optimisation and Integration

Prof Sam Akehurst

• Advanced combustion engine technologies for a net zero future
• Transmission systems for future propulsion systems
• Propulsion system simulation and optimisation

Prof Chris Bowen

• New materials and composites for transport
• Novel experimental and simulation methods
• Energy recapture and harvesting

Prof Chris Brace

• Powertrain system modelling, optimisation, and validation
• Human driving behaviour
• Novel experimental and simulation methods

Dr Sam Bull

• Unsteady aerodynamics
• Flow control
• Reduced-order modelling

Prof Richard Burke

• Powertrain design and control optimisation
• Thermal evaluation and modelling of powertrain components
• Evaluation of powertrain behaviour in stochastic operating conditions
• Dynamic characterisation and experimental techniques

Dr Michael Carley

• Acoustics
• Boundary element method
• Numerical methods
• Aeroacoustics

Dr Yang Chen

• Numerical simulation
• Composite materials and manufacturing
• Energy materials

Dr Daniel Coren

• Tyre and brake particulate emissions
• Air motion in reciprocating and rotating internal combustion engines
• Low drag vehicle airflow management

Dr Charles Courtney

• Battery state of charge and health monitoring
• Ultrasonic non-destructive testing
• Structural health monitoring

Dr Elies Dekoninck

• User-centred Product, Service and System Design
• Eco-Innovation tools and methods
• Sustainable product development

Dr Vimal Dhokia

• Digital Manufacture
• Additive Manufacture
• Design for Manufacture

Dr Stefania Esposito

• Future combustion technologies for a net-zero future
• Renewable low carbon fuels
• Combustion system performance & emission modelling

Dr Tom Fletcher

• Fuel Cells
• Alternative fuel powertrains
• Hybrid system modelling and optimisation

Dr Hamideh Khanbareh

• Functional materials for sensing, energy harvesting and catalytic activities
• High temperature piezoelectric sensors and actuators
• Recyclable functional materials

Dr Alessandro Leronni

• Mathematical modelling of battery performance and degradation
• Theoretical and experimental methods for lithium micromechanics
• Solid-state batteries for electric vehicles

Prof Gary Lock

• Transportation and Society
• Propulsion Electrification
• Turbomachinery

Dr Alex Lunt

• Micromechanics
• Non-destructive characterisation
• Microscopy-based methods

Dr Rick Lupton

• Modelling and analysis of embodied and operational environmental impacts
• Novel transport systems with absolutely zero emissions
• Uncertainty/sensitivity analysis and probabilistic methods

Prof Marcelle McManus

• Future of low carbon mobility
• Life Cycle Assessment and Carbon Assessments
• Novel fuels and systems

Prof Linda Newnes

• Whole Life Value
• People-Led Digitalisation within the automotive sector
• Manufacturing the Future: impact of disruptive technologies within the automotive sector

Dr Min Pan

• Smart Actuation and Motion Control
• Digital Systems, Optimisation and Integration
• System Modelling, Optimisation and Validation

Dr Antonio Pellegrino

• Design and analysis of lightweight protective structures for impact loading applications
• Development and analysis of reinforced polymer and composite structures
• Dynamic behavior of adhesive joints under varying environmental conditions and loading rates

Dr Fulvio Pinto

• Composite Materials and Smart Materials
• Impact resistant structures and dynamic characterisation of materials
• Sustainable Materials and Structures

Prof Andrew Plummer

• Dynamics and control
• Servohydraulic, electromagnetic and piezoelectric actuation
• Control and design of hydrogen propulsion systems for aerospace

Dr Oliver Pountney

• Experimental simulation of heat transfer problems
• Modelling of additively manufactured heat exchangers
• Improving the efficiency of fluid dynamic systems involving heat transfer

Dr Andrew Rhead

• Structural Batteries
• Carbon fibre composites
• Hydrogen Propulsion

Dr James Roscow

• Functional ceramics
• Materials for sensors, actuators and energy harvesters
• Materials processing

Prof Carl Sangan

• Aeroengine technology
• Experimental modelling of turbomachinery
• Modelling of fluid dynamics and heat transfer

Dr James Scobie

• Gas Turbine Technology
• Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer of Rotating Flow Systems
• Efficient Use and Management of the Gas Turbine Secondary Air System

Dr Aykut Tamer

• Aerospace
• Rotorcraft
• Structural dynamics and aeroelasticity

Dr Hui Tang

• Reduced-Order Modelling of Flow and Heat Transfer
• Sustainability and Low Carbon Transition
• Mathematical Modelling and Optimisation

Dr Chris Vagg

• Propulsion Electrification
• Battery thermal management
• Novel electric motor topologies

Dr Hao Yuan

• Sustainable Propulsion Systems
• Chemical Kinetics and Alternative Fuels
• Numerical Modelling of Combustion and Lithium-ion Batteries

Dr Nic Zhang

• Automated vehicle verification and validation
• Intentions and interactions of road users
• Machine learning for powertrain systems

Dr Vincent Zeng

• Power electronics
• Cryogenic propulsion system
• Smart grid

Dr Runan Zhang

• Smart material and structures
• System identification and motion control
• Sensing and energy harvesting

Dr Kei Takashina

• Mass and heat transport
• Cryogenics
• Leidenfrost droplets

Dr Christina Demski

• Public acceptance and behaviour
• Low-carbon mobility
• Interdisciplinary and multi-method research

Dr Malgorzata Gosia

• Emotions (e.g., awe, interest, curiosity, surprise, boredom, confusion)
• Expectations (and what happens when they are disconfirmed or exceeded)
• Adoption of new technologies

Dr Sam Hampton

• Climate change
• Low carbon lifestyles
• Environmental policy

Prof Gregory Maio

• Sustainability and Low Carbon Transition
• Transportation and Society
• Driver and User Behaviour

Dr Karin Petrini

• Cognitive psychology and neuroscience
• Virtual reality and assistive technology
• Spatial navigation and representation

Dr Michael Proulx

• Human cognition and perception
• Interactive technologies (VR/AR/XR)
• Human factors and ergonomics

Prof Lorraine Whitmarsh

• Fostering sustainable travel behaviours
• Modal shift and reducing travel demand
• Adoption and use of low-carbon vehicles

Dr Alexandra Voinescu

• Virtual Reality
• Human Computer Interaction
• Human factors
• Autonomous vehicles

Prof Esther Walton

• Transport effects on health
• Driver and user behaviour
• Transportation and society

Prof Mark Brosnan

• Participatory design with children with ASD
• Developing technology to support learning in ASD
• Reasoning in ASD and other disorders

Dr Daniela Defazio

• Management of Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Digital Platforms

Prof Dimo Dimov

• Entrepreneurship
• Business model design
• Innovation

Dr Vaggelis Giannikas

• Digital Systems, Optimisation and Integration
• Transport, Behaviour and Society
• Freight and people logistics

Dr Winifred Huang

• Corporate finance
• Entrepreneurial and alternative finance
• Financial innovation

Dr Kostas Iatridis

• Sustainability and low carbon transition
• Circular economy
• Responsible innovation

Dr Meng Meng

• Sustainable transportation
• Network modelling and optimisation
• Travel behaviour analysis

Dr Rossella Salandra

• Scientific production
• Academia-industry links
• Evidence-based systems

Prof Michael Lewis

• Technology Strategy
• Supply Chain Management
• Regulation and Governance

Dr Yixian Sun

• Sustainability and Low Carbon Transition
• Climate and Environmental Policy
• Politics and Governance of Sustainable Transport

Dr Charles Larkin

• Transport Policy and Economics
• Transportation and Society
• Sustainability and Low Carbon Transition