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People
Find out more about our core members, associates and alumni.
Founding Director
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Professor Prashant Kumar
Co-Director, Institute for Sustainability, Professor and Chair in Air Quality and Health; Founding Director, Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE)
Core group members
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Professor Abigail Bristow
Interim Head of School of Sustainability, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Professor Shi-Jie Cao
Visiting Professor
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Dr Sisay Debele
Research Fellow (OPERANDUM Project)
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Dr Alex Hagen-Zanker
Associate Professor in Infrastructure Systems
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Dr Sarkawt Hama
Research Fellow (ASAP-Delhi project)
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Dr Gopinath Kalaiarasan
Research Fellow in Systems Thinking
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Professor Matthias Ketzel
Visiting Professor (Senior Scientist, Aarhus University)
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Abhijith Kooloth Valappil
Research Fellow
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Charlotte Le Den
Projects Officer
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Dr Belen Marti-Cardona
Associate Professor (Reader) in Earth Observation and Hydrology
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Professor Aonghus Mcnabola
Visiting Professor (Trinity College Dublin)
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Professor Lidia Morawska
Vice Chancellor Fellow
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Dr Devendra Saroj
Reader and Head of Centre for Environmental Health and Engineering (CEHE), Fellow of Institute for Sustainability, FEPS, University of Surrey Adjunct Faculty, CRDT, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
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Dr Erick Sperandio Nascimento
Associate Professor (Reader) in AI for Clean Air and Programme Lead of AI and Sustainability
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Arvind Tiwari
Research Fellow (CO-TRACE)
Postgraduate research students
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Wickson Cheung
Postgraduate Research Student
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Christina Higgins
Postgraduate Research Student, Sustainability Fellow at the Institute for Sustainability
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Soheila Khalili
Postgraduate Research Student
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Dr Jeetendra Sahani
Postgraduate Research Student
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Mamatha Tomson
Postgraduate Research Student
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Vicky Wei
Postgraduate Research Student
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Huaiwen Wu
Postgraduate research student, Sustainability Fellow at the Institute for Sustainability
Collaborative core group members
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S Jitendra Pal
Collaborative PhD Researcher with IIT Delhi
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Anant Ranapratap
Collaborative PhD Researcher with IIT Kharagpur
Core alumni group
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Dr Vina Kukadia
Visiting Research Fellow
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Dr Hala Hassan
2020 Alumni
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Dr Sachit Mahajan
2019 Alumni
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Dr Jamilah Al-Mutairi
2017 Alumni
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Anju Goel
2017 Alumni
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Dr Prashant Rajput
2017 Alumni
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Dr Aakash C Rai
2017 Alumni
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Dr Farhad Azarmi
2016 Alumni
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Dr Ioar Rivas
2016 Alumni
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Dr Abdullah Al-Dabbous
2015 Alumni
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Dr Sanjay Mukherjee
2014 Alumni
Associate group members
These are some of the academic members who are collaborating through joint projects, publications, PhD supervision, or on-going projects and proposals. The list is to be completed.
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Professor Tao Chen
Professor in Chemical Engineering; Associate Dean (International)
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Dr Jonathan Chenoweth
Senior Lecturer, Director of Learning and Teaching for Environment and Sustainability
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Dr Boulent Imam
Associate Professor (Reader) in Civil Engineering
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Professor Matthew Leach
Professor of Energy and Environmental Systems
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Dr Michael Mulheron
Reader in Construction Materials, Director of Learning and Teaching for Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Professor Shirley Price
Academic Director
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Professor John Watts
Professor of Materials Science