Energy, Environment & Sustainability Staff

Research staff in the IDEAS Energy, Environment and Sustainability theme:

Mahalakshmi Abhishek

Research Fellow in Cyanobacterial Research

Morgan Adams is a Research Fellow working on an collaborative EPSRC project to design and develop photocatalytic reactor units in conjunction with St Andrews University and the California Institute of Technology.

Ghazi Droubi

Dr Ghazi Droubi is a lecturer in Mechanical Enginnering

Christine Edwards

Research with emphasis on cyanobacterial toxins, and their occurrence and fate in the environment.

Nadimul Faisal

Dr. Nadimul H Faisal is a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering.

Carlos Fernandez

Carlos is a Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences. He is a member of the IDEAS Research Institute as part of the Energy, Environment and Sustainability group

Wai-Keung Fung

Dr Wai-Keung Fung is a Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Mamdud Hossain

Dr. Hossain’s interests include advanced combustion modelling, CFD modelling of multi-phase flows in oil and gas, turbulence-device interaction in tidal stream and fuel cell.

Sheikh Islam

Dr Sheikh Islam is a lecturer in the School of Engineering

Draco Iyi

Dr. Draco Iyi is a lecturer and researcher at the RGU School of Engineering.

Linda Lawton

Prof. Lawton has a specific interest in natural toxins produced in water by cyanobacteria.

Yang Liu

Dr Yang Liu is a lecturer at the School of Engineering whose research interests include percussive drilling, drill-string dynamics & control, capsule dynamics & control, control of coexisting attractors, rock characteristics identification and control of underactuated mechanical systems.

Cathy McCullagh

Cathy's main research interests lie within the field of environmental chemistry, specifically photochemistry and within this coatings and reactor development

Craig Mckenzie

Dr Craig Mckenzie is an analytical scientist whose research interests have focused upon the development of fully validated analytical methodologies for the detection of a wide range of environmental contaminants, illicit drugs and their metabolites, and pharmaceutical products in complex environmental and forensic matrices.

Konstantinos Minas

A Research Fellow under Linda Lawton's 'Water for All' project.

James Njuguna

Dr James Njuguna is a Reader in Composite Materials and Structures at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. He has has a long-standing interest and extensive research experience in composite materials (and nanomaterials) for structural applications primarily focusing on transport lightweight structures and more recently into Oil and Gas sector.

Simon Officer

Dr Officer is a lecturer at the School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, and has recently been leading a project in collaboration with the James Hutton Institute on the development of a novel environmental tracer.

Gbenga Oluyemi

Dr Oluyemi's research covers oilfield chemistry related formation damage, optimisation of fracture flow, formation evaluation and geomechanical characterisation of formation rock.

Alan Owen

A renewable energy researcher since 2002, Dr Alan Owen is the Northern Research Partnership Reader in Renewable Energy and Clean Technology, and currently holds the position of Director of CUSP.

Babs Oyeneyin

Professor Oyeneyin's main research is in multiphase fluid flow dynamics, integrated sand management, produced water management, oil/gas well engineering, unconventional reservoir management, flow assurance and production optimisation in deepwater environment.

Pat Pollard

Professor Pollard has over 30 years experience of applied research mostly in collaboration with industry developing a range of sensors including real time and in-situ sensors, environmental sensing & monitoring, and the development of tracers/taggants which has also led to iTi, POC & KTP funded projects.

Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen