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Our team

Faculty

Ruchi Choudhary

Bryn Pickering

Research associates

Graduate students

Max Langtry

Vijja Wichitwechkarn

Collaborators

Katrin Menberg

Amir Bazaz

Alumni

Rebecca Ward

Melanie Jans-Singh

Past PhD Students

Mingda Yuan, 2017-2022 [now research fellow at UCL, UK]
Andre Paul Neto-Bradley, 2017-2021 [became PDRA at U. of Cambridge]
Yohei Kiguchi, 2014-2021 [now CEO of Japan Energy Capital]
Rebecca Ward (1/2 time), 2014-2021 [now PDRA at Turing]
Melanie Jans-Singh, 2016-2020 [now researcher at BEIS, UK]
Bryn Pickering , 2015-2019 [now Arup Official Fellow at University of Cambridge, and Senior Consultant at Arup]
Adnan Mortada, 2013-2018 [now partner of Japan Energy Capital]
Yi Zhang (co-supervisor with K. Soga), 2011-2015 [now researcher at Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, China]
Akomeno Omu, 2010-2014. [now Dean of Faculty at African Leadership University, Mauritius]
Denis Garber (with co-supervisor K. Soga), 2010-2013. [now at WorleyParsons, Canada]
Adam Ryansek, 2009-2013. [now Asst. Prof. at U. of British Columbia, Canada]
Adam Booth, 2009-2013. [now political activist and writer for Socialist Appeal, UK]

Past Research Associates

Dr. Nikolas Makasis, 2020-2023 [now Future Fellow at University of Surrey, UK]
Dr. Monika J. Kreitmair, 2019-2023 [now Future Fellow at University of Surrey, UK]
Dr. Andre Paul Neto-Bradley, 2021-2022 [now researcher at BEIS, UK]
Dr. Asal Bidarmaghz, 2017-2019 [now Asst. Prof. at UNSW Sydney, Australia]
Tim Troendle, 2016-2017 [now senior researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland]
Dr. Qi Li, 2016-2017 [now PDRA at Argonne National Lab, USA]
Dr. Kathrin Menberg, 2014-2017 [now Asst. Prof. at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany]
Dr. Adam Rysanek, 2013-2014. [now Asst. Prof. at U. of British Columbia, Canada]
Dr. Wei Tian, 2011-2013. [now Professor at Tianjin U., China]
Dr. Yeonsook Heo, 2010. [now Associate Professor at Korea University, S. Korea]
Rosalia Pacheco Torres, 2012. [now Asst. Prof. at Polytechnic U. of Madrid, Spain]

Visiting Researchers

Jie Lu, PhD Student, Zhejiang University, China, Jan 2024-Jan 2025
Joaquim Cebolla Alemany, PhD Student, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech, Spain, March-May 2024
Dr. Rubén-Daniel Lopez Carreño, Assistant Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech, Spain, March-May 2024
Dr. Cheryl Wong Sze Yin, Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Oct-Nov 2019
Dr. K. Menberg, Assistant Professor, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, July 2019
Andrea Imaz, Perkins & Will, UK, Jan-August 2019
Dr. W. Choi, Assistant Professor, U. of Tokyo, July 2019
Holger Kessler, Ricky Terrington, Stephen Thorpe, British Geological Survey, Oct 2017-March 2018
Dr. W. Choi, Post Doctoral Researcher, U. of Tokyo, June 2017
Dr. H. Kikumoto, Assistant Professor, U. of Tokyo, June 2017
Olga Mikhaylova, PhD Student, U. of Melbourne, Australia, Jan-March 2016
Martin Kristensen, PhD Student, Aarhus University, Denmark, Summer 2016
Joris Doumouro, Engineering Internship, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay, France, 2015-16
Rui Cheng, PhD. Candidate, Tsinghua University, China, Oct 2013-March 2014
Joakim Munkhammar, PhD Candidate, Uppsala University, Sweden, April 2013
Dr. Inanici, Associate Professor, Dept. of Architecture, U. of Washington, Seattle, USA, August 2013
Dr. Yohei Yamaguchi, Assistant Professor, Urban Energy Systems, Osaka Univ., Japan, Dec 2012