I do welcome PhD applications in areas related to my research projects and interests.

Research projects:

• Modelling the effects of household practices on heating energy consumption in social housing. PhD student: Macarena Rodriguez.   It is a collaborative project  with Your Homes Newcastle (YHN) and Newcastle City Council.
• Spatial energy infrastructure planning for cities's sustained development. PhD student: Javier Urquizo. It is a collaborative project  with  Newcastle City Council
• Decentralised energy: willingness to opt-in. Paul Hunt, Adam Price, Andrew Hird
• Thermo-Electric (TE) air conditioning module as a reversible space heating and cooling system for buildings. PhD student: Cheng Wang
• Energy Path Network, Newcastle City Council's output verification. Prof Chris Underwood and Dr Jialiang Yi

Research Interests:

Energy and Carbon in Cities, Communities, and Buildings

1. Simulation ICTs for predicting/estimating the dynamic behaviour of a system as part of the design function
2. Causal Modelling ICTs used to describe / predict relationships in physical systems
3. Modelling and Simulations ICTs: What-if scenarios
4. Modelling and Model development as to understand retrofit of infrastructure in cities

Smart Materials and Environments

1. Design methods and techniques to enable the application of smart materials and environments in architectural and urban settings.
2. Design conceptualisation ICTs for requirement engineering & ideation .
3. Human factors Engineering ICTs to gather and model data describing the behaviour of end users/energy consumers

Intelligent systems and Digital Design

1. Visual / spatial design ICTs
2. Application of Artificial Intelligence techniques to the resolution of complex spatial problems
3. Navigational methods in 3D synthetic spatial environment

Esteem indicators:

Research Fellowships: 

University of Paris (France)
Virtual Systems Laboratory (Japan)
Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (USA)

Visiting Lecturer at  Hong Kong City University, School of Computing (China)

Selected for the EPRSC Design in the Built Environment network

Book reviewer:

Routledge/EarthScan ()

Blackwell publishers ( ).

Journal Reviewer:

Energy Research and Social Science 

Climate Change 

Energies 

Sustainable Cities and Society 

Presence, MIT Press. 

Architecture Research Quaterly 

ITCom journal  

Interacting with Computers 

Journal Editorial Board:

Informes de la construccion. 

External PhD examiner:

Mr Arash Jalalian for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Newcastle University Australia, August 2012

Grant Reviewer

• European Commission. DG Connect.

           Research call evaluator and grant panel member for FP7 (ICT 2013-10. Objective 8.1. 32 Million Euro.     Minimum 40% IPs and 30 % Streps) and Horizon 2020 (ICT Horizon 2020 2014-1. ICT18. 14 Million Euro.) (ICT Horizon 2020 ICT19a) calls .  

• The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).  Netherlands Research Council.

Project reviewer for FP7:

 Monitor implementation actions:

-IdeaGarden. ICT-2013. Objective 8.1: Technologies and scientific foundations in the field of creativity

-Creatif. ICT-2013. Objective 8.1: Technologies and scientific foundations in the field of creativity

Conference Reviewer:

CAAD futures 

ASCAAD 

SiGraDi 

ICDHS 

CCIM 

Funded research:

CityKeys European Commission (Brussels, Belgium2015-02 to 2017-01  

£47,595 PhD studentship on spatial urban energy modelling (2012). In kind contributions from Cambridge Architecture Research and Your Homes Newcastle.

£9,281 EPSRC (2007). Advanced Computing Techniques in the areas of: interactive spatial environments; biomimetic generative methods and motion graphics. 

£500 Royal Academy of Engineering (2007). Visit to Harvard University, Graduate School of Design.