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SRI Staff
DirectorDirectorAssociate Professor and Director of the Sustainability Research Institute
Deputy Director
Business Manager
Senior Research Fellow, SRI Research Degree Leader
Sustainability Project Delivery Manager
Research Fellow
Energy and Carbon Senior Research Fellow
Research Fellow
Head of Environmental Sciences
Environmental Research Fellow
Green Infrastructure Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Strategic Funding Advisor
SRI Team Administrator
Graduate Trainee Project Manager
AI Support Graduate Officer
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Research Fellow
Green Infrastructure Research Assistant
Former Director, Sustainability Research Institute
SRI Affiliate
SRI Sponsored PhD Research Students
Angela Afua Assan
Angela Afua Assan
PhD Researcher
Afua is a PhD researcher whose work investigates the social dynamics of urban overheating, with a particular focus on translating heat-risk communication into inclusive, actionable adaptation strategies for UK communities.
She holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Architecture degree, which grounded her interest in urbanism and the human dimensions of climate resilience. Her architectural background gives her a holistic lens through which to examine how people perceive, interact with, and respond to heat in cities.
Afua’s research aims to inform evidence-based public engagement and policy approaches that empower communities to adapt to heat in equitable and sustainable ways.
Email: a.assan2701@uel.ac.uk
Chidinma Muoneke
Chidinma Muoneke
Research Assistant
Chidinma is a research assistant who guides and supports companies on organisational greenhouse gas accounting. She is also an SRI-sponsored PhD student and is currently researching barriers to Scope 3 greenhouse gas accounting.
In 2020, she graduated with a first-class Masters in Sustainable Resource Management from the University of Limerick, Ireland. Shortly afterwards she joined the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick as a Research Assistant on an EPA Ireland-funded project that investigated the transboundary shipment of used electrical and electronic equipment in roll-on roll-off vehicles leaving Ireland for West Africa.
Chidinma has worked as a Sustainability Specialist in the telecommunications sector for almost two years. She led several initiatives designed to promote business sustainability such as carbon footprint measurement, setting relevant sustainability targets and driving several initiatives to reduce organisational environmental impacts.
Email: c.muoneke2201@uel.ac.uk
Daniel Arogundade
Daniel Arogundade
PhD Researcher
Daniel is a Postgraduate Researcher at the University of East London’s Sustainability Research Institute (SRI), where their work explores the development of adaptive and intelligent Green Infrastructure (GI) systems through the integration of digital twins, predictive analytics, and urban climate modelling. Their research investigates how real-time environmental data can be used to design resilient, self-adjusting GI systems that respond dynamically to urban microclimates and extreme weather events, with a focus on equitable climate adaptation in London’s boroughs, particularly Newham.
With a background in Automotive Engineering, specialising in electric and hybrid vehicle systems, Daniel brings a strong foundation in systems integration, simulation modelling, and data-driven optimisation. These engineering principles now underpin their approach to urban sustainability, translating methods used in intelligent vehicle control systems and energy management into virtual environmental modelling for adaptive cities. This cross-disciplinary expertise strengthens the SRI’s mission to advance technological innovation for sustainable, low-carbon urban futures.
Email: D.AROGUNDADE@uel.ac.uk
Georgemma Hunt
Georgemma Hunt is an architectural practitioner, artist, and PhD researcher at the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI), University of East London. She trained in architecture at the University of Cambridge (2015–18) and the Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales (2021–23). Her professional experience includes Studio MUTT in Liverpool (2019–21) and Local Works Studio (2023), a landscape and building R&D practice in East Sussex. Alongside her research, she works as a freelance artist and designer across murals, illustration, and co-design/build projects, and is a member of the ReCollective network – a material re-use agency diverting construction waste from landfill into community projects in and around London.
Her PhD (2024–ongoing) explores bio-based building materials derived from the paludiculture crop Common Bulrush (Typha latifolia). Working across material science, ecology, agronomy, and building physics, she is experimenting in how wetland crops cultivated on rewetted peatlands can yield sustainable insulation and particleboard, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from land-use. The project is partnered with the Wildlife Trust BCN through the Peatland Progress Project, and supported by the SRI’s interdisciplinary team, supervised by Dr Bamdad Ayati, Dr Jack Clough, and Richard Lindsay.
Contact: g.hunt1@uel.ac.uk
Hilal Koztepe
Email: u1832463@uel.ac.uk
Helen Mailey
Helen Mailey
PhD Researcher
Helen Mailey is a PhD Research student at the University of East London's (UEL) Sustainability Research Institute (SRI).
With a degree background in Sociology, Helen brings a deep understanding of social structures, human behaviour, and societal change to their research work. The role at UEL SRI involves contributing to interdisciplinary research projects such as Greenhouse Gas Removal Project, with a focus on sustainability, and community engagement.
Through their academic training and hands-on research, Helen is developing her social science insights to address pressing global challenges and drive positive social impact.
Email: h.mailey2@uel.ac.uk
Khaled Hadi
Khaled Hadi
PhD Researcher
Khaled Hadi is a PhD researcher at the University of East London, specialising in sustainable landscape architecture and urban biodiversity. With extensive experience in the design industry, Khaled has developed a strong foundation in garden design and environmental planning, blending creativity with ecological awareness.
He holds a Master’s in Professional Landscape Architecture from UEL and a Postgraduate Diploma in Garden Design, which inform his research into climate-responsive landscapes, planting strategies, and green infrastructure. His work explores how thoughtful design can enhance urban resilience, biodiversity, and community well-being.
Khaled’s professional background includes a wide range of design projects, from conceptual planning to detailed documentation, with a focus on sustainability, collaboration, and innovation. His approach combines technical precision with a deep appreciation for nature’s role in shaping healthier, more connected cities.
Email: u2212946@uel.ac.uk
Marielena Margraf
Details coming soon
Maham Faizan
Maham Faizan
PhD Researcher
Is a PhD student on the SRI PhD programme working as part of the climate change adaptation research team. Her study focuses on how green infrastructure can reduce the impacts of urban overheating combining thermal monitoring and heat adaptation governance.
Email:u3255398@uel.ac.uk
Fateme Rahimipouranaraki
Fateme Rahimipouranaraki
PhD Researcher
Fateme is a postgraduate PhD researcher at the university of East London's sustainable research Institute (SRI) working on overheating, with the focus on Part O, its efficiency and effects of occupant behaviour on it. With her background in Environmental Science and Engineering (BSc) and Environmental Engineering, Design (MSc) She is most interested in the connection and relationship between the built and natural spaces. This background gives her the perspective to work at different scales and integrate built and natural environments, treating them as a living ecosystem, whether through design, planning, or policy.
Email: u4002377@uel.ac.uk
SRI Affiliates
Clare Qualmann
Clare Qualmann is an artist/researcher whose work focuses on participatory, site specific, and experimental modes of creative practice. A founding member of the Walking Artists Network, she led an AHRC project (2011-2013) to extend its interdisciplinary connections internationally, and continues to lead its work to build walking practice, research and discourse. With Claire Hind she has co-edited two volumes of ‘wander scores’ both published by Triarchy Press. Current artworks include East End Jam, a walking, foraging, and preserving project that celebrates the unexpected fruitfulness of the urban environment. Ongoing work includes a collaboration with Clementine Butler-Gallie (DE) and Athanasia Tziona (GR) on ‘Walking with Children’ for the biannual Walking Arts Encounters conference in Prespes, Greece: a space that considers intergenerational creativity and inclusion. Forthcoming work includes Walking Scores for Mile End park, a project with local teachers commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery and London Parks and Gardens.
Email: c.qualmann@uel.ac.uk
Clare Penny
Clare is a Chartered Landscape Architect with 20 years' experience in professional practice, where she worked for a wide range of practices including private and public sector organisations, before moving into academia.
Clare's research interests focus on the self-sustaining city, including the effect of nature-based solutions on humans experiencing social isolation and how Landscape Architecture can support nutritional security and community cohesion in post-disaster communities.
Clare is also passionate about promoting positive community engagement in the design and construction processes, and recently presented at the (re):New Towns conference in Newcastle on the topic of co-design for New Towns.
Clare collaborates with others within UEL including Anna Sieczak, Teresa Serrano and Ravi Jayaratne, and co-founded the MARS Research Project with Dr Joseph Dorsey at the University of South Florida. Clare is a member of the International Federation of Landscape Architecture Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group, and is co-hosting an online international webinar Food Security as Resilience: Landscape Architecture Responding to Global Crises this August.
Email: C.Penny@uel.ac.uk
Christian T Groothuizen
My research interests are in sound practice, field recording and exploring the phenomenological role that sound plays within the built environment. My work is driven by an interest in architecture, landscape and community and often operates in the realms of psychogeography and cartography. Current strands of interest include:
- Utilising acoustics measurement systems for capturing and analysing 3D impulse responses to produce sculptural objects.
- Digital manufacture of sculptural objects using clay printing and other forms of CAD/CAM technologies.
- Developing eco-acoustic research methodologies to inform the development of biomaterial based geopolymers to manufacture 3D-printed geometries for sound diffusion and to support biodiverse environments.
Keywords: sound practice, field recordings, acoustics, eco-acoustics, soundscape
Carl Hayden Smith
My research examines how technologies shape the human condition: not as substitutes for attention, perception or responsibility, but as scaffolds for their development. Through Hyperhumanism, Context Engineering and the Museum of Consciousness, I investigate how sound, immersive media, AI, altered states and designed environments can support altered traits, ecological imagination and ethical agency. This year I want to consolidate this work through the creation of the Centre for Human Agency (CFHA), positioning UEL as a critical site for research into perception, embodiment, imagination and responsibility in an AI-saturated culture. I also aim to extend The Museum of Consciousness’ climate-facing work following OMMM’s invitation to undertake research in the Amazon during COP30. Building on Love Your Mother: World’s First Concert for Nature and its significant global reach, the next phase, developed with the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, will connect Indigenous-led education, youth nature challenges and research into the measurable shifts in our relationship with the living world.
Keywords: Hyperhumanism; Context Engineering; Altered Traits; Sound and Consciousness; Human Agency; Regenerative Media
Email: C.Smith7@uel.ac.uk
SRI 2026 Affiliates
Hasan Baig
Claudia Brazzale
Arman Hashemi
Ravindra Jayaratne
Dr Ravindra Jayaratne is a Chartered Civil Engineer, specialised in Coastal Engineering with 22 years research experience, whose research aligns with resilient and sustainable responses to climate-driven coastal hazards. His work integrates laboratory experiments, advanced numerical modelling and post-disaster field surveys to investigate hard engineering structures and nature-based solutions for extreme flood and tsunami risk mitigation. Key research areas include wave-structure interaction, scour and sediment transport processes, blue-green infrastructure under extreme waves and high precipitation. He also contributes to interdisciplinary approaches such as Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) for flood evacuation and community-informed risk communication. He works with local councils and engineering consultancies and developing an AI-based model to assess flood risk in Newham, supporting data-driven urban sustainability and climate adaptation strategies. His research is globally engaged, with collaborations across the UK, USA, Japan, Mexico and Southeast Asia, supported by major funding bodies including NERC, JSPS, the Royal Society, the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, aiming to develop sustainable, risk-informed strategies for built environment and society.
Keywords: climate-driven coastal hazards, extreme flood and tsunami risk mitigation, hybrid coastal defences, AI and data-driven modelling, community-informed risk communication, sustainable built environment and society.
Email: r.jayaratne@uel.ac.uk
Charlotte Harris
My research explores how architecture and design can support regenerative, low carbon, and socially just transitions by integrating sustainable materials, nature based systems, and community centred design. Working across architectural practice, academic research, and international collaboration, I focus on translating material innovation into real world, place based applications.
Current projects in Malaysia (Reimagining Charcoal and Mangrove Tradition: Transition, British Council–funded) and Galicia, Spain (Model Villages with Fundación RIA) address circular bio based materials, coastal and rural resilience, and equitable economic transition through co design and long term collaboration with communities, NGOs, and academic partners. These projects align closely with SRI priorities in sustainable materials, nature based solutions, and environmental justice.
Through SRI, my work aims to generate interdisciplinary publications, REF relevant impact, and scalable methodologies that support just, inclusive, and regenerative futures.
Keywords: Regenerative design, Bio based and low carbon materials, Circular economy, Nature based solutions, Community centred sustainability, Place based sustainability transitions
Email: c.harris@uel.ac.uk
Claudia Da Palma Romao
Claudia da Palma Romão is an architect, artist, and senior lecturer whose transdisciplinary practice engages with ecofeminism, traditional ecological knowledge, and new materialisms. Her work explores ways of weaving relational ties between humans and more-than-human worlds in times of climate emergency.
Across publications, installations, gatherings, and participatory projects, she weaves together plant-craft, land restoration, migration, preservation of cultural memory, and visual culture. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art, investigating the reception of “the primitive” in the Western imaginary through the intersections of archaeology, anthropology, art, and architecture.
Keywords: perspectivism; mutualisms; plant-craft; land restoration; visual culture.
Email: c.palma@uel.ac.uk
Dr Julie Botticello
I am a Senior Lecturer and Course Lead for the MSc in Public Health, where I teach and supervise research on the experiences of marginalised and vulnerable populations. I teach Bioethics, Public Health Ethics, Research Ethics, Research Methods, Health Promotion, and Global Health across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. My work is situated at the intersection of moral anthropology, care ethics, and global health. Drawing on narrative and ethnographic approaches, I examine how postcolonial diasporic communities navigate everyday care, healthcare, and ethical decision-making amid structural constraint and systemic neglect. My doctoral research on Yoruba-Nigerians in London, together with later studies on second-hand clothing economies and infectious disease screening for new migrants, strongly informed my understanding in how marginalised communities negotiate moral life under various constraints. My current research programme investigates how postcolonial communities make sense of care, responsibility, and daily ethical decision-making amid conflicting norms and obligations.
Key words: Care ethics, constraint, diaspora, marginalised communities, moral life
Email: j.a.botticello@uel.ac.uk
Keita Tajima
My research focuses on design-led, participatory approaches to sustainability transitions, with a particular emphasis on place-based material innovation and community engagement. A current on-going project, Re-Imagining Charcoal, is conducted in Kuala Sepetang, Malaysia, in collaboration with local universities, creative organisations, industry partners, and communities. The project explores the historical, cultural, and ecological dimensions of the traditional mangrove charcoal industry through archival research, fieldwork, and experimental workshops. Material investigations into by-products such as biochar, wood vinegar, shells, and algae open possibilities for sustainable composites and regenerative design applications guided by circularity principles. Alongside this, I am developing a research collaboration in Galicia, Spain, with an urban-rural think tank, addressing shrinking villages, forestry, and rural material practices. Together, these projects inform priorities in bio-based materials, circularity, and socially inclusive sustainability transitions.
Email: k.tajima@uel.ac.uk
Maryam (Sajedeh) Mollasalehi
Dr Maryam (Sajedeh) Mollasalehi is a Lecturer in Construction Engineering Management with research interests at the intersection of sustainable construction, digital built environment, and building performance. Her work focuses on how digital tools, particularly Building Information Modelling (BIM), can support more informed and sustainable decision-making across the lifecycle of construction projects.
Her research explores the integration of digital innovation with material performance, lifecycle assessment, and climate-responsive design to improve the efficiency and resilience of the built environment. She is particularly interested in developing applied, impact-driven research that connects academic insight with industry practice.
Maryam is keen to establish interdisciplinary collaborations and contribute to research initiatives aligned with sustainability, net zero, and urban resilience, particularly those that create meaningful environmental and societal impact.
Keywords: Sustainable Construction, Digital Built Environment, Building Performance, Lifecycle Assessment, Urban Resilience, Net Zero
Email: s.mollasalehi@uel.ac.uk
Yang Li
Research on Data Science and Geographic Information Science
Particularly on quantitative data analysis, data mining and predictive modelling, data quality and data ethics, GeoComputation, location-based services, environmental modelling, as well as Open Source software for data analysis.
Applications cover areas of healthcare, education, crime, business / finance, planning / urban development, smart city, community and environment.
Email: y.li@uel.ac.uk
Dr Catalina Pollak
Dr Catalina Pollak Williamson is an architect, urban researcher, and practice-based scholar working across participatory urbanism, civic pedagogy, and socially engaged spatial practice. She holds a PhD in Development Planning from UCL (2025) and has extensive experience teaching architecture design and theory at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Catalina's research advances a critical understanding of the relationship between play, participation, and urban democracy through design-led methodologies grounded in collective experimentation and socio-spatial justice. Rather than treating participation as a procedural instrument, she interrogates its political ontology, framing it as a civic pedagogy through which situated knowledge, political subjectivities, and urban imaginaries are co-produced and (per)formed. Within this framework, she develops Radical Play as a conceptual and methodological approach in which play becomes politically and pedagogically operative: by suspending the norms that structure everyday life, it opens space to collectively explore new forms of socio-spatial (re)production.
Her current research extends this work into socio-ecological urban practice and community-led development, ranging from grassroots interventions to civic tech platforms designed to reposition communities as active agents in shaping urban environments. In doing so, she continues to explore how creative and performative methods support civic learning and democratic experimentation, enabling more just, ethical and resilient urban futures.
Email: c.pollak@uel.ac.uk
Andrew Branch
My research interest advances CERG’s agenda of exploring emotional geographies and mezzo-level governance as central to community development and local empowerment. Building on established partnerships and emerging projects—such as the forthcoming Wild East London Imaginarium—my work integrates theoretical development, empirical case studies, methodological innovation, and policy influence.
CERG aims to deliver a robust evidence-based methodological toolkit for adaptive governance and community-led decision-making that embeds emotional, cultural, and environmental considerations alongside economic and policy concerns.
Email: a.r.branch@uel.ac.uk
Associates
Dr Helen Bailey
Helen has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby since 2015. Helen is also Managing Director at The Driven Company Associates Limited. The Driven Company supports asset owners, clients and contractors with the development of engineered solutions in highway materials design, production, specification and installation through the provision of advice and technical expertise. Its mission is to remove barriers to drive ahead quality and value; enhancing management, operations and asset creation.
Prof Allan J Brimicombe, Head of Centre for Geo-Information Studies at UEL
Allan's research interests include issues of data quality; the coupling of GIS and numerical simulation modelling for decision support; spatial data mining, analysis and visualisation; and mobile systems and location-based services (LBS).
These have been applied to crime, health, education, natural hazards, utilities and business. Recently he has been working on the Olympic Games Impact Study for the London 2012 Games. Commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council, this work is mandated by the IOC and is the first for a summer Games.
He has published over 90 academic papers and is the author of 'GIS, Environmental Modelling and Engineering' (Taylor & Francis, 2nd Edition, 2010) and 'Location-Based Services and Geo-Information Engineering'(Wiley, 2009).
Email: a.j.brimicombe@uel.ac.uk
Prof Chris Cheeseman
Chris Cheeseman joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London in 1990 This followed periods in industry with Redland Technology, Morgan Materials Technology and Morgan Matroc. He has a DPhil from Oxford University (high-temperature properties of ceramics) and a BSc in Physics and Materials Science from the University of Warwick.
Chris is a Professor of Materials Resources Engineering and the leader of a major research group working on the beneficial reuse of waste materials and resource efficiency within the Environmental and Water Resource Engineering (EWRE) Section. He is also the Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Sustainable Civil Engineering.
The focus of his research is on sustainable use of materials, waste management and resource efficiency. The emphasis of waste management research has changed from safe disposal to the beneficial reuse of materials and wastes as resources. This type of interdisciplinary research falls between the more traditional fields of environmental engineering, materials processing, waste recycling and civil engineering and involves collaboration with both industry and other researchers at Imperial and beyond.
Dr Anca Ciupala
Anca is a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering.
She obtained her MEng degree in Civil Engineering in 1991 and her doctoral degree in Earthquake Engineering and Safety of Structures in 1999 from the Technical University "Gh. Asachi" Iasi, Romania. After spending 10 years in the industry and academia in Romania, Anca was awarded an EU Marie Curie Research Fellowship (FP5) at the University of Sheffield (2001-2003) and then joined the University of East London as a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering in 2003.
Anca's main research interests are in the fields of Structural Engineering and Sustainability in the Built Environment where she has led and participated in a range of research projects and industrial consultancy contracts.
Email:m.a.ciupala@uel.ac.uk
Dr Marcus J Collier
Marcus is a Senior Research Fellow and the co-ordinator of the UCD-led EU FP7 TURAS project (Transitioning towards Urban Resilience and Sustainability). Marcus' research interests focus on the complex and fascinating interface between social and ecological systems, and his PhD research concentrated on damaged landscapes, resilience planning and collaborative processes.
His main areas of expertise are in interdisciplinary research, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, social-ecological interfaces, resilience and vulnerability, landscape and restoration ecology, environmental policies, rural geography, governance and community outreach as well as writing and presentation skills.
Marcus began his post-doctoral research in Teagasc, with funding from the EPA (STRIVE), examining the potential impacts of genetically modified crops on biodiversity and the landscape. He then continued his post-doctoral research with University College Cork / Environmental Research Institute.
At the Coastal and Marine Research Centre Marcus worked as a Sustainability Scientist and as a member and work package leader on several international research teams (Funded by the Marine Institute, INTERREG, ESPON and FP7).
Email:marcus.collier@ucd.ie
Dr Jon Green
Jon Green graduated from the University of Portsmouth and holds a PhD from Writtle Agricultural College on "Cryopreservation of Ribes nigrum utilizing field grown and in vitro material for genetic conservation".
Jon is currently leading a collaborative project between the University of Freiburg and the company Qfood Gmbh investigating food and drink quality using capture and release polymer technology.
He is a visiting researcher with the SRI and works with the University of Chongqing, China and the company RTAL (HK) Ltd. to develop lightweight aggregate from waste materials.
Armor Gutierrez
Armor is an architect, researcher and maker, interested in how innovation through sustainability can have a positive impact on our built environment. Prior to joining the University of East London as a Senior Lecturer, he gained extensive professional experience working for some of the world's most distinguished architecture firms such as Bjarke Ingels Group in Copenhagen, MVRDV in Rotterdam, and KPF in London, where he attained the level of Associate Principal.
In 2015 he co-founded Atelier La Juntana, a workshop exploring architecture, design and creative fabrication through sustainable making. As part of this exploration he organises, in collaboration with Madrid Polytechnic University of Architecture, a summer school which welcomes international students each edition sharing a common interest on the topic of sustainable materials and critical making.
Since 2017, he has run the design studio Unit 8 at MArch, Master in Architecture at the University of East London. Armor's students have engaged with a number of community-led organisations and assisted them with implementing sustainable solutions to their design schemes, including innovative solutions for floating communities in the Royal Docks in collaboration with Babylon Blue, and pioneering material prototypes using by-products from sugar cane in collaboration with Tate & Lyle. The unit students have been shortlisted on several occasions for RIBA awards, including the RIBA Silver Medal Nomination 2019 and 2021, the RIBA Dissertation Medal 2020 and the RIBA East Prize Skin thinking-Detail Award 2020.
Dr Amin Hosseinian-Far
Dr Amin Hosseinian-Far holds the position of Senior Lecturer & Deputy Subject Leader in Business Systems and Operations at the University of Northampton. In his previous teaching experience, Amin was a Staff Tutor at the Open University, and prior to that a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader at Leeds Beckett University. He has held lecturing and research positions at the University of East London and at a number of private HE institutions and strategy research firms.
Dr Hosseinian-Far has also worked as Deputy Director of Studies at a large private higher education institute in London. Dr Hosseinian-Far received his BSc (Hons) in Business Information Systems from the University of East London, an MSc degree in Satellite Communications and Space Systems from the University of Sussex, a Postgraduate Certificate in Research and a PhD degree titled 'A Systemic Approach to an Enhanced Model for Sustainability' which he acquired from the University of East London.
Amin holds a Membership of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), and a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). He is also the founding editor and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Strategic Engineering (IJoSE).
Email:Amin.Hosseinian-Far@northampton.ac.uk
Rosa Rogina
Rosa is an architect, researcher and curator working as a Programme Director at the London Festival of Architecture. Rosa's work shares the fundamental premise that architecture is a public concern, with the specific aim of increasing public awareness about the role of architecture and sustainable design in contemporary society.
Since 2017, she has run the design studio Unit 8 at MArch, Master in Architecture at the University of East London. Rosa's students have engaged with a number of community-led organisations and assisted them with implementing sustainable solutions to their design schemes, including innovative solutions for floating communities in the Royal Docks in collaboration with Babylon Blue, and pioneering material prototypes using by-products from sugar cane in collaboration with Tate & Lyle. The unit students have been shortlisted on several occasions for RIBA awards, including the RIBA Silver Medal Nomination 2019 and 2021, the RIBA Dissertation Medal 2020 and the RIBA East Prize Skin thinking-Detail Award 2020.
Ian Short
Ian Short was appointed Interim CEO of Climate-KIC in January 2016 and tasked with implementing Climate-KIC's new structures, strategies and teams to enable the organisation to achieve its potential. Ian was previously Chief Executive of the Institute for Sustainability - an independent charity established to pilot and trial systemic solutions for sustainable cities and communities.
Previously, Ian was Deputy Chief Executive at the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (LTGDC), a public/private regeneration agency in east London, which he helped establish in 2005. While in this role, Ian led the development of the Institute for Sustainability from its original concept to a fully operational charitable organisation in just over two years.
Dr Renée Tobe
Dr Renée Tobe is a Reader in Architecture. She has been awarded a Paul Mellon Research Fellowship at the British School in Rome (2018) and a Research Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities at Edinburgh University (2014). Before entering academia, she was in professional practice for 10 years, previous to which she studied at the Architectural Association, Cornell University and Ryerson University where she trained in sustainable building technology. Read more about Dr Renée Tobe.
Email:r.tobe@uel.ac.uk
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