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OUR RESEARCHERS
Meet the researchers from our universities who are working on cutting edge research focussed on reaching Net Zero and beyond.
If you are an academic at one of our member universities working on one of our core themes, and would like to be added to this directory, please get in touch.
Scotland’s universities have come together, working with our local partners and with the Scottish Government to address key challenges associated with the climate emergency, including clean energy, storage, decarbonisation, green transport, community empowerment and climate justice.
Senior Lecturer in Electrical Power Engineering
ahmed.aboushady@gcu.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering
H.Ahn@ed.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Global Food Security
peter.alexander@ed.ac.uk
Professor and Chair of Operational Research
miguel.f.anjos@ed.ac.uk
Lecturer in Computational Reactive Flows
antonio.attili@ed.ac.uk
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
saskarinejad001@dundee.ac.uk
Professor of Food and Environmental Security
liz.baggs@ed.ac.uk
Lecturer in Energy and Sustainability
obamisile001@dundee.ac.uk
Professor in Environmental Sustainability & Democracy
patrick.bayer@glasgow.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development
Karen.Bell.2@glasgow.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies
ross.beveridge@glasgow.ac.uk
Chancellor’s Fellow in Environmental Humanities
hannah.boast@ed.ac.uk
Reader in Science Technology and Innovation Studies
Ronan.bolton@ed.ac.uk
Reader in Construction Informatics
f.bosche@ed.ac.uk
Vice Principal Research and Enterprise
christina.boswell@ed.ac.uk
Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
m.j.z.brown@dundee.ac.uk
Chancellor's Fellow in Net-Zero Buildings
j.broswilliamson@ed.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Infrastructure and Environment
roisin.buckley@glasgow.ac.uk
Interdisciplinary Director for Environment and Biodiversity
d.burslem@abdn.ac.uk
Professor of International Energy Law and Policy
p.d.cameron@dundee.ac.uk
Lecturer in Fire Science
Z.Campbell.Lochrie@ed.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Technology and Environment
k.carter@ed.ac.uk
Reader in Materials for Green Energy Technologies
JunYoung.Cheong@glasgow.ac.uk
Visiting Lecturer in Climate Finance & Investment
icochran@ed.ac.uk
Professor of Human Nutrition
Emilie.CombetAspray@glasgow.ac.uk
Professor in Strategy and Technology Management
john.crawford@glasgow.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Hydrogen Energy Systems
prodip.das@ed.ac.uk
Lecturer in Environmental Engineering
carlos.domingo-felez@glasgow.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Geography, Sustainability and Environment
Ria.Dunkley@glasgow.ac.uk
Lecturer in Environmental Fluid Mechanics
teaves001@dundee.ac.uk
Lecturer in Power Electronics and Electrical Power Engineering
mohamed.elgenedy@gcu.ac.uk
Local SBNZ lead at Glasgow Caledonian University, and Director, Research Centre for Built Environment Asset Management (BEAM) at Glasgow Caledonian University
Rohinton.Emmanuel@gcu.ac.uk
Research Fellow in Environmental Engineering
Ania.escudero@gcu.ac.uk
Rankine Chair of Energy Engineering (Systems Power & Energy)
Gioia.Falcone@glasgow.ac.uk
Professor in Electrical Power Engineering
mohamed.farrag@gcu.ac.uk
Chancellor's Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Geosciences
janet.fisher@ed.ac.uk
Professor in Cyber Physical Systems
David.Flynn@glasgow.ac.uk
Chancellor's Fellow in Net Zero Buildings
dfosasd@ed.ac.uk
Personal Chair of Energy Systems
d.friedrich@ed.ac.uk
Lecturer in nature-based solutions and hydrogeological modelling
Alejandro.ollauri@gcu.ac.uk
Bert Whittington Chair of Electrical Power Engineering
Gareth.Harrison@ed.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Marine Hydrodynamics and Ocean Engineering
mhayatdavoodi@dundee.ac.uk
Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage
Stuart.Haszeldine@ed.ac.uk
Chair in Energy, Environment and Society
dvander@ed.ac.uk
Professor of Sustainable Biotechnology
Louise.Horsfall@ed.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer (Undergraduate Medical School)
Camille.Huser@glasgow.ac.uk
Professor and Chair of Finance; Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations
Gbenga.Ibikunle@ed.ac.uk
Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics
david.ingram@ed.ac.uk
Local SBNZ lead for the University of Edinburgh, and Personal Chair of Global Health and Nutrition
lindsay.jaacks@ed.ac.uk
Director of the Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice
t.jafry@gcu.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Energy, Environment and Society
kirsten.jenkins@ed.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biosciences
matt.jones@glasgow.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems
jkenned5@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Elizabeth Georgeson Fellow in Data and Digitalisation for Net Zero
desen.kirli@ed.ac.uk
Chair of Agile Energy Systems
kiprakis@ed.ac.uk
Professor of Civil Engineering
J.A.Knappett@dundee.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer Economics
Theodore.Koutmeridis@glasgow.ac.uk
Local SBNZ lead for the Univeristy of Aberdeen, and Interdisciplinary Director for Data and Artificial Intelligence
georgios.leontidis@abdn.ac.uk
Lecturer in Composite Materials Technology
francisca.mhergueta@ed.ac.uk
Principal Investigator Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences
smckim@dundee.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Anthropogenic Geomaterials
john.macdonald.3@glasgow.ac.uk
Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies
Alice.Mah@glasgow.ac.uk
Reader in Transport Studies
David.Mcarthur@glasgow.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Ocean Observation
emedina@ed.ac.uk
Professor, Civil Engineering and Environmental Management
Slobodan.Mickovski@gcu.ac.uk
Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
dominic.moran@ed.ac.uk
Professor of Geomorphology and Environmental Geography
Larissa.Naylor@glasgow.ac.uk
Lecturer in Real Estate
Tunbosun.Oyedokun@glasgow.ac.uk
Vice Principal for Research and Knowledge Exchange
chris.pearce@gla.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
R.Pillai@ed.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Radio Frequency Technology
s.podilchak@ed.ac.uk
Professor of Evolutionary Parasitology
Sarah.reece@ed.ac.uk
Chair of Molecular Materials
neil.robertson@ed.ac.uk
Lecturer in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
eugenia.rodrigues@ed.ac.uk
Professor of Physical Geography
j.s.rowan@dundee.ac.uk
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/john-rowan
Reader in Emerging Sustainable Technologies
g.santori@ed.ac.uk
Professor of Consumer Ethics and Sustainability
Deirdre.shaw@glasgow.ac.uk
Business Development Manager, School of GeoSciences
stuart.simmons@ed.ac.uk
RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies
William.sloan@glasgow.ac.uk
Director of the Centre for Future Infrastructure
Sean.Smith@ed.ac.uk
Lecturer in Autonomous Systems & Connectivity
Wenjuan.Song@glasgow.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Theatre, Film & Television Studies
Inge.Sorensen@glasgow.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Systems Thinking
agnessa.spanellis@ed.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer of Geotechnical Engineering
melis.sutman@ed.ac.uk
Lecturer in Environment and Development
sam.staddon@ed.ac.uk
Professor of Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Technology
Mark.Symes@glasgow.ac.uk
Senior Research Partnership Manager, SBNZ
K.Symons@ed.ac.uk
Lecturer in Transport Systems Engineering
ptafidis@ed.ac.uk
Director of the Sustainable Scotland Network (SSN)
george.tarvit@ed.ac.uk
Professor in Sustainability and the Built Environment
craig.thomson@gcu.ac.uk
Professor of Accounting and Sustainability
Ithomson002@dundee.ac.uk
Professor of Ocean Engineering
V.Venugopal@ed.ac.uk
Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Bioinspired Engineering
i.m.viola@ed.ac.uk
Chair, SBNZ Steering Group, local SBNZ lead for the University of Glasgow, and Professor of Environmental and Climate Science
Jaime.Toney@glasgow.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Education Studies
Reader in Geospatial Data Science
Mingshu.Wang@glasgow.ac.uk
Professor of Landscape Architecture
c.ward-thompson@ed.ac.uk
Business Manager, Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems
Darren.watt@ed.ac.uk
Professor of Sociology of Organisations
jan.webb@ed.ac.uk
Programme Manager, Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage
gillian.white@sccs.org.uk
Lecturer in Environmental Management
andrew.wilson@gcu.ac.uk
Reader in Interdisciplinary Research in Education
Anna.Wilson.2@glasgow.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
mark.winskel@ed.ac.uk
Programme Manager, Climate Springboard
alison.wood1@ed.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Systems, Power and Energy
Siming.You@glasgow.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management and Technology
Abraham.Zhang@glasgow.ac.uk
Lecturer in Superconducting and Cryogenic Electric Machines
hongye.zhang@ed.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies
Qunshan.Zhao@glasgow.ac.uk
