Energy, Environment & Sustainability Staff

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

Ebenezer Adom

Eben is currently a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. He is also a member of the IDEAS Research Institute.

Dr. Dallia Ali is a Chartered Engineer and a member of Institution of Engineering and technology (MIET) who joined the School of Engineering at Robert Gordon University in November 2009 where she developed research experience in the field of renewable energy and hydrogen fuel cells.

Christine Edwards

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

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.

Mohammed Kishk

Mohammed is Course Leader for MSc Commercial Practice for the Energy Sectors. Research interests are in Asset Management, Life Cycle Costing, Asset Life Cycle Analysis, Petroleum Economics and Project Management.

Linda Lawton

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

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.

Kostas Minas

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

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.

Ketan Pancholi

Ketan Pancholi is a lecturer at RGU School of Engineering.

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.