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Sustainable Energy Research Group
Faculty of Engineering and the Environment
University of Southampton

Address
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ, UK

Telephone
+44 (0)23 8059 2051

Fax
+44 (0)23 8067 7519

Email
serg@soton.ac.uk

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Core Team - SERG Members within the
School of Civil Engineering and the Environment

Prof. AbuBakr S. Bahaj - Head of Division

Research Themes: Smart Facades in the Built Environment, Renewable Energy, Photovoltaic Systems and Applications, Marine Current Energy Converters, Biomagnetic Separation, Bioleaching.

Location: Room 5011, Lanchester Building
Email: A.S.Bahaj @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 2051

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Mrs. Sheila Stickland - PA to the Head of Division

Location: Room 5012, Lanchester Building
Email: eccd @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 8946



Dr. Ben Anderson - Senior Research Fellow

Research Themes: Occupant Consumption habits & practices, spatial & temporal demand, socio-technical change.

Email: b.anderson @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 0774 6308 488

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@dataknut



Mr. Nikolaos Bakker - Postgraduate Researcher

Research Themes: Occupant Behaviour and Environmental Monitoring in Offices.

Location: Room 3001, Building 22
Email: najb106 @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 2134



Dr. William M. J. Batten - Research Fellow

Research Themes: Tidal Energy, Wave Energy, Offshore Hydrodynamics, Micro Hydropower.

Location: Room 5013, Lanchester Building
Email: wmjb @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 3940

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Dr. Luke S. Blunden - Researcher

Research Themes:
Resource Analysis in Marine Energy.

Location: Room 5013, Lanchester Building
Email: lsb1 @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 3940

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Mr. Leonidas Bourikas - Postgraduate Researcher

Research Themes:
Urban Energy Modelling, Urban Microclimates, Environmental Design.

Location: Room 3001, Building 22
Email: lb12g10 @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 2134



Prof. John R. Chaplin

Research Themes: Fundamental Hydrodynamics, Hydraulics, Wave Energy, Tidal Energy.

Location: Room 5021, Lanchester Building
Email: J.R.Chaplin @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 2843

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Mr. Nicholas Choplain - Postgraduate Researcher

Research Themes: Wave Energy.

Location: Room 1045, Building 86
Email: n.choplain @ soton.ac.uk



Mr. Tim Daly - Postgraduate Researcher

Research Themes: Flow Marine Current Turbine Arrays, Tidal Turbine Wake Effects, Split Tidal Channels.

Location: Room 3001, Building 22
Email: td2e09 @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 2134



Mr. Pascal W. Galloway - Postgraduate Researcher

Research Themes: Marine Current Energy Converters.

Location: Room 3001, Building 22
Email: P.W.Galloway @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 5458



Mr. Jack W. Giles - Postgraduate Researcher

Research Themes: Tidal Energy.

Location: Room 3001, Building 22
Email: jack.giles @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 2134



Dr. Patrick A. B. James - Senior Lecturer

Research Themes: Energy in the Built Environment, People and Buildings, Energy and Communities, Climate Change Studies, Photovoltaic System Design, PV Roof Tiles, Microgeneration, Magnetotactic Bacteria, PV Connectors.

Location: Room 5015, Lanchester Building
Email: P.A.James @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 2442

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Mr. Chris Kanani - Research Fellow

Research Themes: Energy for Development, PV, Rural Electrification.

Location: Room 5013, Lanchester Building
Email: C.Kanani @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 8756



Mr. Brad Keogh - Postgraduate Researcher

Research Themes: Energy, Offshore Renewable Energy, Tidal Energy.

Location: Room 3001, Building 22
Email: B.Keogh @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 5458



Mr. Mark Leybourne - Postgraduate Researcher

Research Themes: Ducted Wave Energy Converters.

Location: Room 3001, Building 22
Email: mark.leybourne @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 2134


Dr. Gerald U. Müller - Senior Lecturer

Research Themes: Fluid Structure Interaction, Wave Effects on Structures, Micro-Hydropower, Wind Power.

Location: Room 5023, Lanchester Building
Email: G.Muller @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 2869

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Dr. Luke E. Myers - Lecturer

Research Themes: Tidal Energy, Microgeneration, Micro Wind Power.

Location: Room 5053, Lanchester Building
Email: L.E.Myers @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 3946

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Dr. Anastasios Papafragkou - Research Fellow

Research Themes: Urban Carbon and Energy Audit.

Location: Room 5013, Lanchester Building
Email: ap1004 @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 3940



Ms. Despoina Teli - Lecturer

Research Themes: Thermal Comfort in School Buildings, Sustainable Urban Design, Low Energy Architecture.

Location: Room 5013, Lanchester Building
Email: d.teli @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 3940



Ms. Christabel Watts - Postgraduate Researcher

Research Themes: Impact of Energy Certification on the Energy Performance of UK Public Sector Buildings.

Location: Room 3001, Building 22
Email: cmw406 @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 2134



Mr. Yue Wu - Postgraduate Researcher

Research Themes: Low Carbon Cities.

Location: Room 3001, Building 22
Email: phil.wu @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 5439

Extended Team - SERG Members within
other Schools at the University of Southampton

Prof. Darren M. Bagnall
School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton

Research Themes: Nanostructured Antireflective Coatings, Plasmonics, Thin Film Silicon Technology.

Email: dmb @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 7609

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Mr. Peter Challenor
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

Research Themes: Satellite Remore Sensing, Environmental Statistics.

Phone: 023 8059 6413

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Prof. Zoe Matthews
School of Social Sciences, Social Statistics, University of Southampton

Research Themes: Village Electrification, Social Effects of Photovoltaics in Developing Countries.

Email: Z.Matthews @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 3997

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Prof. John McBride - Head of Research
School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton

Research Themes: Electrical Switching Phenomena and Connectors.

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Prof. Anthony F. Molland
Emeritus, School of Engineering Sciences, Ship Science, University of Southampton

Research Themes: Investigation of Marine Current Turbines.



Dr. Nicholas Woodman - Research Fellow

Research Themes: Community Based Initiatives in Domestic Energy Saving, Fluid Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media.

Location: Room 1021, Building 22
Email: n.d.woodman @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 2283

Associates - Associated Members and Visiting
Professors / Researchers

Mr. Choo Khean Chang - Visiting Researcher
PhD researcher at the University of Malaya, Malaysia & Lecturer at the University of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Research Themes: Climate Change Studies in Tropical Climates, Comfort in Buildings, HVAC Engineering.



Dr. Lawrence L. Kazmerski - Visiting Professor
Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colorado, USA

Research Themes: Characterisation of Photovoltaic Materials and Devices, Solar Cells, Thin Films, Semiconductor Materials and Devices, Surface and Interface Analysis, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Semiconductor Defects, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Nanoscale Technology, High-Temperature Superconductivity, Solar Hydrogen.



Dr. Ye Li - Visting Senior Research Fellow
Senior Scientist, Water Power Research, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colorado, USA

Research Themes: Ocean Energy Modeling; Tidal stream turbines

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Ms. Zhu Li - Postgraduate Researcher

Research Themes: Village Power System.



Dr. Ed Mackay - KTP Associate
Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the University of Southampton and Pelamis Wave Power Ltd

Research Themes: Resource and Software Development to Characterise the Wave Climate at any Location in the World, Ocean Wave Measurement Techniques, Ocean Wave Modelling, Satellite Altimetry, Statistical Analysis of Wave Climates, Extreme Wave Prediction.



Prof. Bernard McNelis - Visiting Professor
IT Power, Managing Director and Co-Founder

Research Themes: Photovoltaic Policy and Implementation, Global Issues, Power for the World.

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Prof. Chris Retzler - Visiting Professor
Pelamis Wave Power Ltd, Principal Scientist

Research Themes: Experimental Modelling of Wave Energy Converters, Wave Energy Resource Assessment, Statistics of Wave Climate and Extreme Waves, Wave Energy Protocols and Standards.



Prof. Mike Thwaites - Visiting Professor
Plasma Quest Ltd

Research Themes: Plasma Deposition, 3rd Generation Solor Cells, Architectural Coatings.

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Prof. Jeremy Watson - Visiting Professor
ARUP, Director for Global Research

Research Themes: Dongtan Research Programme, Tools for New Product Definition, Rapid Development and Low-Risk Introduction: Roadmapping, ‘Time-To-Market’ E.G. QFD and Reinertsen’s Methods, Technology Development and Transfer: Management of Collaboration Between Industry and Academe, Automation Systems for Industry and the Built Environment, Power Electronics.

Special Members

Mr. Sergio Crocodile - Group Mascot

Research Themes: Environmental Impact Analysis on Local Crocodile Populations.

Location: Room 5013, Lanchester Building
Email: serg @ soton.ac.uk
Phone: 023 8059 3941


The Team and its Expertise
The Sustainable Energy Research Group (SERG) is an interdisciplinary team of researchers bringing together the different fields involved in renewables and energy efficiency.

The educational / professional background of the core SERG researches spans various different topics:
  • Architecture
  • Civil Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Naval Architecture
  • Physics
  • Semiconductor Physics

People by Research Field
Photovoltaics
Prof. Darren Bagnall, Prof. AbuBakr Bahaj, Dr. Patrick James

Tidal Energy
Prof. AbuBakr Bahaj, Dr. William Batten, Dr. Luke Blunden, Prof. John Chaplin, Mr. Tim Daly, Mr. Pascal Galloway, Mr. Jack Giles, Mr. Brad Keogh, Dr. Ye Li, Prof. Anthony Molland, Dr. Luke Myers,

Wave Energy
Prof. AbuBakr Bahaj, Dr. William Batten, Mr. Peter Challenor, Prof. John Chaplin, Dr. Ed Mackay
Mr. Mark Leybourne, Dr. Gerald Müller

Built Environment
Dr. Ben Anderson, Prof. AbuBakr Bahaj, Mr. Nikolaos Bakker, Mr Leonidas Bourikas, Dr. Patrick James, Mr. Anastasios Papafragkou, Ms. Despoina Teli, Ms. Christabel Watts, Dr. Nicholas Woodman, Mr. Yue Wu

Climate Change
Prof. AbuBakr Bahaj, Mr. Choo Khean Chang,
Dr. Patrick James

Microgeneration
Prof. AbuBakr Bahaj, Dr. Patrick James, Dr. Luke Myers, Dr. Anastasios Papafragkou

Wind Energy
Prof. AbuBakr Bahaj, Dr. Patrick James, Dr. Gerald Müller, Dr. Luke Myers,

Micro Hydropower
Dr. William Batten, Dr. Gerald Müller

Pollution Control
Prof. AbuBakr Bahaj, Dr. Patrick James



SERG 2011 last update - 03/03/2012 by pabj