Principal Investigators
Prof Jim Hall
University of Oxford, Director of the ITRC
Jim Hall is Director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the management of climate-related risks in infrastructure systems, in particular those related to flooding, coastal erosion and water scarcity. He moved to Oxford in 2011 having previously held academic positions in Newcastle University and the University of Bristol.
Prof Nick Jenkins
Cardiff University, expert in energy supply and transmission
Nick Jenkins is Professor of Renewable Energy at Cardiff University, having previously worked at University of Manchester (UMIST). He spent 14 years in the energy industry, including 5 years in developing countries. Recent work has involved teaching and research activities in both electrical power engineering and renewable energy.
Dr Nick Eyre
University of Oxford, expert in energy demand
Nick Eyre is the leader of the Lower Carbon Future group and a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre (University of Oxford), leading its research work on energy demand. His long term interest is the role of public policy in improving energy demand and efficiency, in the recognition that progress will require technical, social and policy changes.
Stephen Hallett
Researcher, Cranfield University
Stephen Hallett’s expertise is in the application of spatial computer-based methodologies and GIS to the environmental sciences with particular reference to soil and natural environmental systems. He is closely involved with the National Soil Resources Institute’s Soil Resources Group and Land Information System (LandIS).
Prof John Preston
University of Southampton, expert in transport systems
John Preston is Head of the School of Civil Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton. His research in transport covers demand and cost modelling, regulatory studies, and land-use and environment interactions and includes work on rail economics for Rail Research UK and leads the iConnect consortium examining walking and cycling.
Prof Chris Kilsby
Newcastle University, expert in water resource systems
Chris Kilsby is Professor of Hydrology & Climate Change at Newcastle University. His main research interests are climate change impact assessments in the water sector: water resources, flood risk management and river flow regimes. Specialist climate scenarios in rainfall modelling and weather generators are also an important part of his work.
Prof Tom Curtis
Newcastle University, expert in waste water systems
Tom Curtis is Professor of Environmental Engineering at Newcastle University. His research focuses on biological treatment systems, pathogens and pathogen removal in waste water and has experience in a wide range of practical and theoretical water treatment anaylsis.
Prof William Powrie
University of Southampton, expert in solid waste and geotechnics
William Powrie is Director of University Knowledge Transfer Account and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment. The geotechnical aspects of transport infrastructure, and sustainable waste and resource management are his main areas of interest. His work encompasses groundwater control, in-ground construction to reduce environmental impacts and fundamental soil behaviour.
Prof Cliff Jones
Newcastle University, expert in the reliability of computer-based systems
Cliff Jones is a Professor at the School of Computing at Newcastle University. His current research is focused on the dependability of computer-based systems, concurrency, support systems, logics and the Vienna Development Method.
Dr Seth Bullock
University of Southampton, expert in complex systems
Seth Bullock is Head of the Science and Engineering of Natural Systems Group at the University of Southampton. His main research interest is evolutionary simulation modelling: the application of evolutionary modelling techniques developed within artificial intelligence to problems within evolutionary biology. He is also Head of the Science and Engineering of Natural Systems (SENSe) research group and became Director of the Institute for Complex Systems Simulation (ICSS).
Dr Stuart Barr
Newcastle University, expert geospatial data analysis
Stuart Barr is Senior Lecturer in Geographic Information Systems at Newcastle University. His research interests include computational urban systems and urban earth observation, multisource remote sensing, and spatial, structural and statistical pattern recogniton for integrated GIS/EO analysis.
Prof Robert Nicholls
University of Southampton, expert in the impacts of climate change
Robert Nicholls is Professor of Coastal Engineering and Deputy Head of School of Civil Engineering and the Environment (Research) at the University of Southampton. His main areas of interest are long-term coastal engineering and management, in particular coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level rise.
Prof Pete Tyler
University of Cambridge, expert in regional economics
Pete Tyler is a Professor in the Department of Land Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is an urban and regional economist with an extensive track record in consulting for the public and private sector, both in the UK and overseas. Most recently he has led a major collaborative research initiative, that investigates why new and growing enterprises thrive in certain places and not in others.
Prof Mark Birkin
University of Leeds, expert in analysis of demographic change
Mark Birkin is Professor of Spatial Analysis and Policy at the University of Leeds. His major research interest is in simulating social and demographic change within cities and regions, and in understanding the impact of these changes on the need for services such as housing, roads and hospitals.
Dr Jim Watson
University of Sussex, expert on socio-technical transitions and the governance of energy systems
Jim Watson is Professor of Energy Policy (SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research) at the University of Sussex. His current research is focused on UK and international policies to support the development and deployment of sustainable, low carbon energy technologies, and has a long-standing interest in the development of gas turbine and ‘cleaner coal’ technologies for power generation.
