

Ensuring sustainable energy
Ensuring sustainable energy focuses on powering a low-carbon future through innovation for energy transformation. The programme drives systems-wide innovation to enable a resilient, low-carbon energy future. The work spans renewable energy, smart infrastructure, and sustainable mobility - grounded in cutting-edge science and shaped by social, cultural, and policy realities.
Institute Fellows working in this field

Dr Bahman Amini Horri
Associate Professor of Energy Materials and Sustainability; Leader of MSc Sustainable Energy; Fellow at the Institute for Sustainability

Dr Ana Andries
Lecturer in Remote Sensing and GIS

Professor Claudio Avignone Rossa
Professor of Systems Microbiology

Professor Bonnie Buchanan
Associate Dean (International) - FABSS; REF Lead (UoA17); Director of Sustainable and Explainable FinTech (SAEF) Center, Immediate Past Head of Department of Finance and Accounting and Professor of Finance

Professor Qiong Cai
Professor in Sustainable Energy and Materials; Sustainability Fellow; Theme Leader on Chemicals for Net-Zero within the Institute for Sustainability

Dr Benyi Cao
Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering; Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow

Dr Matteo Carpentieri
Associate Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Dr Tanmoy Chatterjee
Lecturer in Resilient Design

Professor Tao Chen
Associate Vice-President, International and Professor in Chemical Engineering

Dr Mona Chitnis
Associate Professor (Reader) in Energy Economics

Dr Simon Curtis
Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Professor Robert Dorey
Professor of Nanomaterials

Professor Ali Emrouznejad
Professor and Chair in Business Analytics, Director of the "Centre for Business Analytics in Practice", and Program Lead for "Sustainability Analytics, Metrics, and NetZero"

Professor Nigel Gilbert
Professor of Sociology

Dr Bing Guo
Professor in Environmental Engineering and Microbiology

Dr Sarkawt Hama
Research Fellow (ASAP-Delhi project)

Dr Zoe Harris
Director of the Centre for Environment and Sustainability, Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainability

Dr Yinglong He
Lecturer in Automated Electrified Transport (AcT) Systems

Dr Suzie Hingley-Wilson
Lecturer in Bacteriology

Dr Monika Kreitmair
Surrey Future Fellow
Dr Hui Luo
Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow

Dr Nikolas Makasis
Surrey Future Fellow in Sustainability, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Stephen Morse
Chair in Systems Analysis for Sustainability

Dr Marco Sacchi
Associate Professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow in Physical and Computational Chemistry, Theme Leader in Sustainable Energy and Materials Research

Dr Arman Sarvarian
Reader in Public International Law, Fellow of the Institute for Sustainability

Dr Michael Short
Associate Professor of Process Systems Engineering

Dr Erick Sperandio Nascimento
Associate Professor (Reader) in AI for Clean Air and Programme Lead of AI and Sustainability

Dr James Suckling
Lecturer in Life Cycle Assessment and Research Fellow B (ReVerDi and VF-UKFSR Projects)

Dr Tan Sui
Associate Professor (Reader) in Materials Engineering

Dr Senmao Xia
Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation / Doctoral Supervisor

Dr Lei Xing
Lecturer in Digital Chemical Engineering / Fellow of Institute for Sustainability / Fellow of Institute for People-Centred AI