Civil and Structural Engineering academic staff
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Dr
Andrew
Barr
Research Fellow in Structural and Material Blast Characterisation
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: strain rate effects in soils | high strain-rate material behaviour | high pressure material behaviour | blast measurement | dispersion effects in pressure bar measurements
- Email address
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a.barr@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr
Domenico
Bau
Senior Lecturer
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: groundwater, oil and gas | contaminant transport (including chemicals within fluids) | mechanics of soil and fluid formations | water pollution prevention
- Email address
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d.bau@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 0253
Professor
Joby
Boxall FREng
Professor of Water Infrastructure Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: public health | drinking water quality | water supply resilience and sustainability | urban water | leakage | hydraulic engineering
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j.b.boxall@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5760
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- Email address
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j.f.carr@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 0251
Dr
Richard
Collins
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: water distribution systems | drinking water quality & safety | smart infrastructure | autonomous robotic systems | buried pipe infrastructure
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r.p.collins@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5715
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Professor
Danielle
Densley Tingley
Professor in Circular Construction
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: sustainable building design solutions | built environment | circular economy | energy flow | strategic retrofit
- Email address
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d.densleytingley@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr
Isabel
Douterelo Soler
Senior Lecturer in Water & Applied Microbiology
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: drinking water supply | sewage systems | groundwater | development of new management, monitoring and risk mitigation technologies | urban water systems
- Email address
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i.douterelo@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 9728
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Dr
Helen
Fairclough
Lecturer in Structural Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: minimum material structures | form finding | design of long span structures | integration of digital tools into design workflows | structural design using low carbon materials
- Email address
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helen.fairclough@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5753
Dr
Katherine
Fish
Research Fellow in Water Systems Microbiology
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: applied environmental microbiology | biofilm formation and mobilisation/stability | biofilm management | drinking water quality | microbial ecology
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k.fish@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5732
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n.francis@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5759
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Dr
Maurizio
Guadagnini
Senior Lecturer
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: advanced composites | concrete structures | Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRP) | construction sustainability | carbon fibre
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m.guadagnini@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5757
Professor
Ian
Guymer
Professor of Civil Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: mixing and transport of contaminants and pollutants | coastal and estuarine areas | urban drainage | pipe distribution systems | civil engineering hydraulics
- Email address
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i.guymer@Sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5740
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Professor
Iman
Hajirasouliha
Chair in Structural Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: resilient buildings/infrastructure | lightweight steel structures | performance-based optimisation | retrofitting techniques | AI | low-carbon structural systems
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i.hajirasouliha@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5710
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r.harpin@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5748
Dr
Linwei
He
Lecturer in Structural Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: carbon footprint | multi-storey buildings | long-span canopy roofs with buildability constraints | 3D printed metallic components | refurbishment analysis | structural optimization
- Email address
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linwei.he@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor
Rachel
Horn
Professor of Engineering Education
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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r.horn@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5792
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p.hulbert@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5058
Dr
Stewart
Husband
Research Fellow of Drinking Water Quality
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: drinking water quality | water distribution systems | microbial communities | discoloration management
- Email address
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s.husband@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 7901 109027
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Dr
Georges
Kesserwani
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: flood prediction | pre-flood protection measures | uncertainty quantification methods | sewer and floodplain flow interactions | modelling of wakes and eddies | solute mixing
- Email address
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g.kesserwani@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5746
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Dr
Alessandro
Leonardi
Senior Lecturer in Geomechanics
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: numerical modelling | geohazards | smart technologies | landslides, debris flows, and rockfall dynamics | submarine geohazards | climate change
- Email address
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a.leonardi@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5782
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Professor
Martin
Mayfield-Tulip
Head of School
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: infrastructure | sustainable design | built environment | systems engineering | climate change mitigation & adaptation | mission critical systems | city systems
- Email address
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martin.mayfield@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5054
Dr
Martyn S.
McLaggan
Lecturer in Low Carbon Design
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: low carbon materials | timber and natural materials | energy efficiency | sustainability and fire safety | advanced composite building products | reducing embodied carbon | facades
- Email address
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m.s.mclaggan@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5783
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Dr
Behzad
Nematollahi
Senior Lecturer
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: sustainable (low carbon) concrete materials | high-performance fibre-reinforced cementitious composites | digital fabrication with concrete technologies (3D printing)
- Email address
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b.nematollahi@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5064
Dr
Andy
Nichols
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering and Director of General Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: water infrastructure | sensor development | infrastructure management | asset degradation | whole-life costing | railway engineering
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A.Nichols@Sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 0256
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Professor
Sam
Rigby
Professor of Blast Protection Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: blast and impact engineering: focusing on protecting people, buildings and vehicles from explosions | extreme loading | numerical modelling | experimental testing |
- Email address
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sam.rigby@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5724
Dr
Charles
¸é´Ç³Ü²µÃ©
Senior Lecturer in Water Resilience
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: complex water resource systems | water infrastructure design | low carbon economy | bridging water engineering and hydrology with power systems engineering
- Email address
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c.rouge@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5723
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Dr
James
Shucksmith
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: hydrodynamics of urban flooding | interaction of urban drainage & surface flows | water quality transport processes in river networks | control systems for urban drainage networks
- Email address
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j.shucksmith@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114222 5706
Professor
Colin
Smith
Professor in Geotechnical Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: limit analysis and optimisation in geotechnics | low-carbon geotechnical construction | masonry arch bridge analysis, modelling and assessment
- Email address
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c.c.smith@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5717
Professor
Vanessa
Speight
Professor of Integrated Water Systems
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: drinking water quality | potable water distribution systems | public health risk, and regulatory/policy development | urban water systems | sustainable water systems of the future
- Email address
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v.speight@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 0259
Professor
Virginia
Stovin
Professor of Green Infrastructure for Stormwater Management
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: urban stormwater management | sustainable drainage systems | stormwater infrastructure (green roofs/rain gardens) | flow patterns of water in storm water ponds and sewer system
- Email address
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v.stovin@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5051
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Professor
Simon
Tait
Professor of Water Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: water network environments | erosion, transportation and deposition of sediment in river and urban drainage systems | near-bed and in-pipe turbulence | sewer and drainage networks
- Email address
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s.tait@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5771
Dr
Giacomo
Torelli
Senior Lecturer in Civil and Structural Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: understanding and modelling the multi-physics behaviour of infrastructure materials | improving resilience and sustainability of our civil infrastructure
- Email address
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g.torelli@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5781
Professor
Andrew
Tyas
DSTL/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Blast Protection Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: blast and impact engineering | protecting people, buildings and vehicles from explosions | extreme blast loading | design infrastructure
- Email address
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a.tyas@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5735
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Dr
Carolanne
Vouriot
Lecturer in Building Physics
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: natural ventilation and indoor air quality in buildings | classroom environments | ventilation provision and risk | computational fluid dynamics | air pollution
- Email address
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c.v.vouriot@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5784