SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
Promoting sustainable urban landscapes
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circular economy urban sustainability low carbon construction engineering for development |
Interested in the current state of resource efficiency in urban systems and industries, and develops technological and policy interventions for a low carbon future. Mohit has worked with several cities to improve their materials management towards a more circular economy. In low and middle income countries, he is focusing on engineering driven solutions to achieve low carbon development solutions for buildings and construction sector. | ||||
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data visualization data science public engagement |
Working on data visualization and making data accessible and understandable by experts and non-experts. Data visualization is essential in understanding complex processes and data sets. Especially, techniques from storytelling and visual communication have huge potential to communicate findings and information to large and diverse audiences. | ||||
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built environment digital construction project management |
Interest in digital twinning and the built environment, as well as digital technology to support Net Carbon assessment in the built environment. |
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digital twins & living labs climate change resilience healthy buildings |
Interested in low embodied carbon materials and techniques in the built environment, energy-efficient technological solutions for the refurbishment of existing buildings, and climate change adaptation and resilience of buildings by developing solutions and low carbon building services. | ||||
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biocatalysis industrial biotechnology sustainability |
Using biocatalysts (natural and engineered) to catalyse chemical reactions, as well as developing chemical tools to reduce waste and increase yields of enzyme-catalysed chemical reactions. | ||||
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environmental engineering water and wastewater treatment environmental sustainability |
Development of sustainable technologies for water and wastewater treatment; life cycle assessment of environmental processes and technologies. | ||||
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space astrobiology microbiology |
Interested in sustainable biotechnology in space to support human space exploration. | ||||
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synthetic biology medicines biotechnology |
Focussed on improved health and well-being, particularly through research and also dissemination to and partnership wit the global south in the area of pharmacology and diagnostics. | ||||
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electrosynbionics bionanotechnology renewable energy |
Research on electrosynbionics, which involves the development of devices that use biological or bio-inspired components to generate, use or store electricity. This includes biophotovoltaics and biobatteries. | ||||
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biotechnology anti-microbial resistance biogeochemical cycling |
Interested in the application of microbial communities to bioremediation, sustainable waste treatment and energy generation from waste. We also have interests in the evolution and spread of antimicrobial resistance and approaches to tackling it. | ||||
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renewable energy heating and cooling data-driven engineering |
Develop and apply mathematical methods to practical problems in energy system design and optimisation, in particulat for decarbonising thermal energy systems. | ||||
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sustainable polymers catalysis materials |
Focus on improving the sustainability of plastics across their lifecycle. We approach this by making materials from renewable resources (e.g. plants and CO2), improving the efficiency of production processes (by making new catalysts) and investigating opportunities to improve recycling technologies. | ||||
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biotechnology remediation renewables |
Remediation methods to tackle environmental contamination in urban areas, such as the use of biochar/microorganisms to remove manganese from drinking water. | ||||
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quantum AI sustainability |
Interested in the potential of quantum computing to address sustainability challenges. | ||||
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sustainable chemistry renewable energy thermodynamics |
Development of tools to enable hydrogen as a low-cabon energy pathway, and the use of sustainable chemistry technologies such as climate engineering, water desalination, gas storage, cold energy storage, etc. | ||||
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electric mobility | Novel mobility solutions that combine energy efficiency with convenience and communal acceptance. We are asking what level and type of individual traffic will be desirable and tolerable in future and what structural changes we need to support the best options. Solutions to these questions may benefit from work in my group on optimisation, machine learning, and multi-agent systems. | ||||
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energy decarbonising heating and cooling |
Tackling issues of heating and cooling through understanding and developing solid-state refrigerant materials. We do this by analysing the structure of materials via diffraction and computational methods and understanding how the refrigerant properties are altered. | ||||
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sustainable biotechnology resource efficiency synthetic biology |
Translating academic research into novel industrially-usable platforms for the sustainable production of scientifically improved enzymes, bio-based chemicals and other bio-derived materials by exploiting new analytical and bio-based technologies. Our disruptive innovations will lead to the development of unique and sustainable new products, derived from wastes and by-products, and demonstration of their cost-efficient and energy-saving production using novel biomanufacturing technologies. | ||||
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green chemistry biotechnology |
Development of greener and more efficient methods for chemical production, with a focus on using knowledge from both Chemistry and Biology to design better catalytic processes. | ||||
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chemical separation desalination polymer science |
Interested in recycling plastic waste into polymer membranes and microporous polymers for chemical separations. We also deploy Green Chemistry principles to make these materials by deploying green solvents and biorenewable materials. | ||||
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environmental remediation greenhouse gas removal clean air net zero |
Development of low energy solutions for multiple greenhouse gases removal at the climatically relevant scale to enable a transition to a net greenhouse gas neutral future. | ||||
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extraction recycling catalysis |
Expertise in chemistry of the recycling and extraction of metals from their ores and other sources, including electronic waste, with the aim to develop new, sustainable, and environmentally benign processes that promote the circular use of metals. | ||||
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risk co-production urbanisation |
We run the GCRF Tomorrow's Cities Hub which aims to reduce disaster risk for the 2 billion new urban residents of tomorrow's rapidly expanding cities. We use interdisciplinary methods to understand risk and tools for risk assessment that can democratise the concept of risk and allow poor communities to argue for safer and more human future urban expansion. | ||||
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satellite data for coastal environmental applications renewable energy AI |
Expertise in water and energy and how these two interact in the natural environment. My research focuses on the development of tools to improve the monitoring of coasts and oceans using remote sensing and artificial intelligence. | ||||
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renewables decarbonising heating |
Working on grid scale energy storage, and interested in decarbonising building heating with heat pumps, and technologies to help decarbonise agricultural/off road and construction machinery. | ||||
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data literacy | Academic lead for Data Education in Schools. We're looking for researchers who work on sustainability themes using data who might want to explain their work to school children. https://dataschools.education/. Our seminar series for teachers is themed around the sustainability goals this year. | ||||
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AI social sciences & policy |
Interested in responsible use of the technologies and resilience to nefarious uses. Particular focus in people's interactions with one another over technology and people's interactions with technology, using computational methods. This includes, for example, the automatic flagging of abusive social media content and the reduction of bias in AI methods that evaluate user-generated content online. | ||||
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space microbiology astrobiology space biomanufacturing |
Building a sustainable future for space exploration, by developing microbial biotechnologies which will implement circular economy for life support systems. | ||||
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biotechnology biorefinery circular economy |
Interested in valorisation of lignin, a major component of lignocellulose which is one of the most abundant sustainable and renewable resources on the planet. This will contribute significantly to the economic viability of second generation biorefineries. | ||||
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energy efficient communications renewable energy sustainable infrastructure |
Energy efficient solutions for wireless communications and internet of things systems. These technologies will help to underpin practical solutions in many application domains such as: low carbon energy generation; sustainable industry and infrastructure; smart cities. | ||||
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renewable energy environmental impact energy systems |
Developing analytical tools for better evaluating the environmental impacts of energy systems and technologies. This aims to inform the rapid transition to low-carbon energy systems and support sustainable development. This is achieved by both evaluating emerging technologies, and exploring how they can be best combined and developed to produce energy systems that are secure, equitable, economically viable, environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable. | ||||
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design co-creation data-driven technology |
Interested in issues of social responsibility around technology design and development, and co-creation of new systems with communities that are affected by and responsible for them. Conducted research around digital technologies and data-driven systems in relation to civic action, community development, and in general the role of technologies in supporting sustainable communities and address issues of social inequality. | ||||
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eo4sdgs poverty mapping |
Interested in how satellite data can be leveraged for monitoring poverty and livelihoods. This is because we need more data on how SDGs are progressing but the traditional ways of doing this using household surveys are time consuming and expensive. |