Mentors’ Community


Prof. Jatin Nathwani

Research Interest: Sustainable Energy (Policy and Risk Management)



Prof. Mattheos Santamouris

Research Interests: High Performance Architecture and Building Energy (Solar Energy and Energy Conservation)



Prof. Evelia Rivera-Arriaga

Research Interests: Environmental Policy and Governance, and, Impact of Climate on Marine and Coastal Regions



Prof. Bipasha Baruah

Research Interests: Green Economy; Clean Energy and Gender, Construction, Manufacturing, Transportation



Prof. Marta Molinas

Research Interests: Rural Electrification (Technology), Microgrids and Energy Poverty



Prof. Nathalie Tufenkji

Research Interests: Water Resources Management, Clean Water and (Bio)Colloid-Surface Interactions in Aqueous Systems



Prof. Ambrish Chandra FIEEE

Research Interests: Renewable Energy Systems (Hybrid, Stand alone and Grid Connected), Power Quality improvement on Distribution Grid



Prof. Akiça Bahri

Areas of Expertise: Water Resources Management, Water Reuse, Agriculture Use of Biosolids (​in nexus with Energy, Environment and Climate Change)



Prof. Olayinka S. Ohunakin

Research Interests: Renewable Energy Technologies, Energy Audits and Modelling, and Energy Efficiency



Prof. Anil Hira

Research Interests:  Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Industrial Policy, Governance



Prof. Hayley Fowler

Research Interests:  Climate change, extreme weather, water resources, natural hazards



Prof. Meg Holden

Research Interests:  Urban planning and policy, sustainable development in cities and model sustainable neighbourhoods



Dr. Morgan Bazilian

Research Interests: Energy Planning, Energy and Fragile/Conflict Situations



Dr. Debora Ley

Research Interests: Rural Electrification, Renewable Energy Technology and Policy, and Climate Change



Dr. William Blyth

Research Interests: Renewable Energy and Climate Change Policy, Emissions Trading and Energy Efficiency



Dr. Temilade Sesan

Research Interests: Energy Poverty, Gender and Energy, Renewable Energy Policy



Bettina Bergoo

Research Interests: Energy Access and Clean Energy (Finance, Policy and Market Development)



Abdelkader Allali

Areas of Interest: Green Economy, Environment and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation



Dr. Jola Ajibade

Research Interests: Future City Planning, Environmental Justice, Climate Change Adaptation, Societal Transformation



Dr. Greg Bodeker

Research Interests: Measurements of Upper-air Essential Climate Variables, Detection and Attribution of Climate Change, and Stratospheric Dynamics



Dr. Pu Wang

Research Interests: Climate and Energy Policies, Sustainable Development Strategies



Dr. Steffen Kallbekken

Research Interests: Climate Policy Instruments, Public Support, International Agreements, Consumer Behaviour



Paula Holland

Research Interests: Environmental Economics and Policy, Climate change Adaptation and Disaster Risk, Natural Resource Management



Dr. Taoyuan Wei

Research Interests: Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Integrated Assessment, Economic Modelling and Analysis



Dr. Zhu Liu

Research Interests: Sustainability Science, Global Carbon Budget, Low Carbon Development for Developing Countries



Dr. Ana Pueyo

Research Interests: Renewable Energy Technology Transfer and Investment, Productive Uses of Energy, Gender-Energy-Enterprise Nexus



Dr. Claire Walsh

Research Interests:  Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Green Infrastructure, Climate Impacts on Water Resources, Infrastructure Business Models, Urban Agriculture, Hydromorphology



Rianne C. ten Veen

Areas of Expertise: Faith and Environment, Poverty and Environment, Ecoaudit, Sustainable Development, Ethics, Human Rights, Sphere, INEE



Dr. Pia Frederiksen

Research Interests: Agricultural Geography, Bioenergy, Sustainability, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation



Dr. Hannah Hughes

Research Interests: Global Environmental Politics, Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, Knowledge and Power, Indigenous Knowledge, International Political Sociology and Critical Research Methods



Dr. Neil Craik

Research Interests: Environmental Law, Environmental Impact Assessment, Climate Change Policy and Geoengineering Law and Governance



Kristina Alnes

Research Interests: Climate finance with a focus on green bonds and sukuks, climate risk reporting
and analysis of corporate climate risk



Dr Ir. Gerald Augusto Corzo Perez

Research Interests: Integrated water resources management, mathematical and statistical modelling for Hydroinformatics and climate change analysis



Dr. Warren Mabee

Research Interests: Renewable energy, energy and environmental policy, and forestry



Dr. Basim Belgasim

Research Interests: Renewable energy engineering, solar energy, solar thermal systems and technologies



Dr. Misato Sato

Research Interests: Climate policy instruments, emissions trading, competitiveness impacts, green economy



André De Rosa

Research Interests: Renewable Energy & Microgrid, Rural Electrification Finance, Energy Storage & Hydrogen



Dr. Kirsten Davies

Research Interests: Human Rights and the Environment, Climate Law, Community Engagement, Sustainable Development



Ashley Cooper

Areas of Interest: Environmental and Climate Change Photography



Dr. Alexandre Strapasson

Research Interests: Energy and Climate Change Mitigation, Bioenergy, and Sustainable Land Use



Gregory Leng

Research Interests: Sustainable Energy and Climate Change



Dr. Athanasios Dagoumas

Research Interests: Sustainable Energy Policy, Economics, Markets and Planning



Steven von Eije



Dr. Ioannis L. Tsipouridis

Research Interests: Renewable Energy Engineering Applications, Climate Change Mitigation



Francois Le Scornet

Research Interests: Low-Carbon Energy Markets, Policies and Technologies



Dr. Huong Ha

Research Interest: Climate Change (Policy)



Dr. Hisham Zerriffi

Research Interests: Energy Access, Energy and Development, Policy, Regulation, Energy Systems



Kirsty Hamilton

Research Interests: Renewable Energy – Policy, Investment and Finance



Joanne Lee

Areas of Interest: Renewable Energy Finance and Environmental Policy



Peter Dauenhauer

Research Interests: Off-grid Electrification and Project Development, Business Model Design and Implementation



Anna Asikainen

Research Interests: Green and Sustainable Finance, ESG investments, Carbon Pricing, Emissions Trading Scheme, Climate Policy, Climate Risks and Opportunities



Dr. Kacper Szulecki

Research Interests: Energy democracy and energy justice, energy security, renewable energy transitions



Dr. Magda Moner-Girona

Research Interests: Renewable energy deployment, techno-economic analysis, rural electrification



Dr. Rajnish Ranjan

Research Interests: Disaster Risk Management, Hydrogeology, Geology and Virtual Learning Environment



Dr. Elin Lerum Boasson

Research Interests: Climate and energy policy, low emission economy, public policy theories



Dr. David Moser

Research Interests: Energy systems modelling and analysis, photovoltaic technologies, renewable energy transition



Dr. Roberta Boscolo

Research Interests: Climate and Energy Nexus, Meteorology and Climate data for Adaptation and Mitigation



Corrado Di Maria

Research Interests: Environmental policy and natural resource use, natural resource and energy economics



Dr. Joshua B. Horton

Research Interests: Solar geoengineering, solar radiation management, carbon dioxide removal, negative emissions technologies, climate politics, loss and damage



Dr. Rusyan Jill Mamiit

Research Interests: Climate change adaptation and risk assessment, Ecosystem services valuation, Water-food-energy nexus



Prof. Falendra Kumar Sudan

Research Interests: Environmental, Energy & Climate Change Economics, Water Governance and Institutions, Energy Poverty, Cleaner Energy Technologies



Prof. Ademola Oluborode Jegede

Research Interests: Interface of climate change and carbon dioxide removal options, and human rights law of vulnerable groups in Africa



Prof. Venkata Ramayya

Research Interests: Design and Simulation of Renewable Energy Systems, and Biochar-based Climate change Mitigation Strategies



Prof. Dr. Eng. Ahmed Hamza H. Ali

Research Interests: Solar Energy Technology,  Energy Audit and Energy Efficiency



Prof. Ellen Morris

Research Interests: Energy Access, Energy Entrepreneurship, Gender and Energy, and Clean Energy Policies



Prof. Donatien Njomo

Research Interests: Solar Energy Engineering, Rural Electrification, Climate Change Mitigation, GHG Emissions Inventory



Dr. Micheal Atchia

Research Interests: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development Education and Sustainable Development



Dr. Michael MacCracken

Research Interests: Climate Change Impact and Mitigation, Climate Engineering and Global Warming



Dr. Ioannis L. Tsipouridis

Research Interests: Renewable Energy Engineering Applications, Climate Change Mitigation



Gregory Leng

Research Interests: Sustainable Energy and Climate Change



Dr. Athanasios Dagoumas

Research Interests: Sustainable Energy Policy, Economics, Markets and Planning



Kirsty Hamilton

Research Interests: Renewable Energy – Policy, Investment and Finance



Dr. William Blyth

Research Interests: Renewable Energy and Climate Change Policy, Emissions Trading and Energy Efficiency



Dr. Kirsten Davies

Research Interests: Human Rights and the Environment, Climate Law, Community Engagement, Sustainable Development



Dr. Hisham Zerriffi

Research Interests: Energy Access, Energy and Development, Policy, Regulation, Energy Systems



Dr. Huong Ha

Research Interest: Climate Change (Policy)



Ashley Cooper

Areas of Interest: Environmental and Climate Change Photography



Dr. Pradipta Halder

Areas of Interest: Energy, Climate change, Education



David Gibson

Research Interests: Energy Access (Market) and Utility Energy Efficiency



Dr. Alexandre Strapasson

Research Interests: Energy and Climate Change Mitigation, Bioenergy, and Sustainable Land Use



Xavier VALLVÉ

Research Interests: Microgrid Technology, Demand Side Management, Community Development, Integrated Energy Strategies.



Dr. Susanne Nies

Research Interests: Energy Policy and Energy Economics – Power Generation, Transmission,  Distribution and Innovation



Habashy Ibrahim

Research Interest: Solar PV Engineering – Planning, Design, and Installation



Bilkisu Labaran

Area of Interest: Environmental Journalism



George Charley Granvorka

Research Interests: Climate Change, Ecosystems Services, Disaster and Risk Reduction



Luca Petrarulo

Research Interests: Climate Change and Environment Nexus, Sustainable Energy (Policy and Economics)



Steven von Eije



Joanne Lee

Areas of Interest: Renewable Energy Finance and Environmental Policy



Peter Dauenhauer

Research Interests: Off-grid Electrification and Project Development, Business Model Design and Implementation



Dr. Funke Alaba

Research Interests: Clean Energy and Health Nexus



Francois Le Scornet

Research Interests: Low-Carbon Energy Markets, Policies and Technologies



Dr Xavier Lemaire

Research Interests: Sociology of energy access, Social imaginary of renewable energy, Clean energy policies, Energy Justice



Prof. Venkata Ramayya

Research Interests: Design and Simulation of Renewable Energy Systems, and Biochar-based Climate change Mitigation Strategies



Prof. Dr. Eng. Ahmed Hamza H. Ali

Research Interests: Solar Energy Technology,  Energy Audit and Energy Efficiency



Prof. Ellen Morris

Research Interests: Energy Access, Energy Entrepreneurship, Gender and Energy, and Clean Energy Policies



Prof. Donatien Njomo

Research Interests: Solar Energy Engineering, Rural Electrification, Climate Change Mitigation, GHG Emissions Inventory



Prof. Jatin Nathwani

Research Interest: Sustainable Energy (Policy and Risk Management)



Prof. Mattheos Santamouris

Research Interests: High Performance Architecture and Building Energy (Solar Energy and Energy Conservation)



Prof. Evelia Rivera-Arriaga

Research Interests: Environmental Policy and Governance, and, Impact of Climate on Marine and Coastal Regions



Prof. Bipasha Baruah

Research Interests: Green Economy; Clean Energy and Gender, Construction, Manufacturing, Transportation



Prof. Marta Molinas

Research Interests: Rural Electrification (Technology), Microgrids and Energy Poverty



Prof. Akiça Bahri

Areas of Expertise: Water Resources Management, Water Reuse, Agriculture Use of Biosolids (​in nexus with Energy, Environment and Climate Change)



Prof. Nathalie Tufenkji

Research Interests: Water Resources Management, Clean Water and (Bio)Colloid-Surface Interactions in Aqueous Systems



Prof. Ambrish Chandra FIEEE

Research Interests: Renewable Energy Systems (Hybrid, Stand alone and Grid Connected), Power Quality improvement on Distribution Grid



Prof. Olayinka S. Ohunakin

Research Interests: Renewable Energy Technologies, Energy Audits and Modelling, and Energy Efficiency



Prof. Andy Hira

Research Interests:  Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Industrial Policy, Governance



Prof. Hayley Fowler

Research Interests:  Climate change, extreme weather, water resources, natural hazards



Prof. Meg Holden

Research Interests:  Urban planning and policy, sustainable development in cities and model sustainable neighbourhoods



Dr. Micheal Atchia

Research Interests: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development Education and Sustainable Development



Dr. Michael MacCracken

Research Interests: Climate Change Impact and Mitigation, Climate Engineering and Global Warming



Dr. Ioannis L. Tsipouridis

Research Interests: Renewable Energy Engineering Applications, Climate Change Mitigation



Gregory Leng

Research Interests: Sustainable Energy and Climate Change



Dr. Athanasios Dagoumas

Research Interests: Sustainable Energy Policy, Economics, Markets and Planning



Kirsty Hamilton

Research Interests: Renewable Energy – Policy, Investment and Finance



Dr. William Blyth

Research Interests: Renewable Energy and Climate Change Policy, Emissions Trading and Energy Efficiency



Dr. Kirsten Davies

Research Interests: Human Rights and the Environment, Climate Law, Community Engagement, Sustainable Development



Dr. Hisham Zerriffi

Research Interests: Energy Access, Energy and Development, Policy, Regulation, Energy Systems



Dr. Huong Ha

Research Interest: Climate Change (Policy)



Ashley Cooper

Areas of Interest: Environmental and Climate Change Photography



Dr. Pradipta Halder

Areas of Interest: Energy, Climate change, Education



David Gibson

Research Interests: Energy Access (Market) and Utility Energy Efficiency



Dr. Alexandre Strapasson

Research Interests: Energy and Climate Change Mitigation, Bioenergy, and Sustainable Land Use



Xavier VALLVÉ

Research Interests: Microgrid Technology, Demand Side Management, Community Development, Integrated Energy Strategies.



Dr. Susanne Nies

Research Interests: Energy Policy and Energy Economics – Power Generation, Transmission,  Distribution and Innovation



Habashy Ibrahim

Research Interest: Solar PV Engineering – Planning, Design, and Installation



Bilkisu Labaran

Area of Interest: Environmental Journalism



George Charley Granvorka

Research Interests: Climate Change, Ecosystems Services, Disaster and Risk Reduction



Luca Petrarulo

Research Interests: Climate Change and Environment Nexus, Sustainable Energy (Policy and Economics)



Steven von Eije



Joanne Lee

Areas of Interest: Renewable Energy Finance and Environmental Policy



Peter Dauenhauer

Research Interests: Off-grid Electrification and Project Development, Business Model Design and Implementation



Dr. Funke Alaba

Research Interests: Clean Energy and Health Nexus



Francois Le Scornet

Research Interests: Low-Carbon Energy Markets, Policies and Technologies



Dr Xavier Lemaire

Research Interests: Sociology of energy access, Social imaginary of renewable energy, Clean energy policies, Energy Justice



Dr. Morgan Bazilian

Research Interests: Energy Planning, Energy and Fragile/Conflict Situations



Dr. Debora Ley

Research Interests: Rural Electrification, Renewable Energy Technology and Policy, and Climate Change



Dr. Temilade Sesan

Research Interests: Energy Poverty, Gender and Energy, Renewable Energy Policy



Bettina Bergoo

Research Interests: Energy Access and Clean Energy (Finance, Policy and Market Development)



Dr. Giovanni Palmisano

Research Interests: Photocatalysis, Water and Air Remediation, Modelling and Kinetics of Photoreactors



Abdelkader Allali

Areas of Interest: Green Economy, Environment and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation



Dr. Jola Ajibade

Research Interests: Future City Planning, Environmental Justice, Climate Change Adaptation, Societal Transformation



Dr. Greg Bodeker

Research Interests: Measurements of Upper-air Essential Climate Variables, Detection and Attribution of Climate Change, and Stratospheric Dynamics



Dr. Pu Wang

Research Interests: Climate and Energy Policies, Sustainable Development Strategies



Dr. Steffen Kallbekken

Research Interests: Climate Policy Instruments, Public Support, International Agreements, Consumer Behaviour



Paula Holland

Research Interests: Environmental Economics and Policy, Climate change Adaptation and Disaster Risk, Natural Resource Management



Dr. Taoyuan Wei

Research Interests: Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Integrated Assessment, Economic Modelling and Analysis



Dr. Zhu Liu

Research Interests: Sustainability Science, Global Carbon Budget, Low Carbon Development for Developing Countries



Dr. Ana Pueyo

Research Interests: Renewable Energy Technology Transfer and Investment, Productive Uses of Energy, Gender-Energy-Enterprise Nexus



Dr. Claire Walsh

Research Interests:  Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Green Infrastructure, Climate Impacts on Water Resources, Infrastructure Business Models, Urban Agriculture, Hydromorphology



Rianne C. ten Veen

Areas of Expertise: Faith and Environment, Poverty and Environment, Ecoaudit, Sustainable Development, Ethics, Human Rights, Sphere, INEE



Dr. Pia Frederiksen

Research Interests: Agricultural Geography, Bioenergy, Sustainability, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation



Dr. Hannah Hughes

Research Interests: Global Environmental Politics, Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, Knowledge and Power, Indigenous Knowledge, International Political Sociology and Critical Research Methods



Dr. Neil Craik

Research Interests: Environmental Law, Environmental Impact Assessment, Climate Change Policy and Geoengineering Law and Governance



Kristina Alnes

Research Interests: Climate finance with a focus on green bonds and sukuks, climate risk reporting
and analysis of corporate climate risk



Dr Ir. Gerald Augusto Corzo Perez

Research Interests: Integrated water resources management, mathematical and statistical modelling for Hydroinformatics and climate change analysis



Dr. Warren Mabee

Research Interests: Renewable energy, energy and environmental policy, and forestry



Dr. Basim Belgasim

Research Interests: Renewable energy engineering, solar energy, solar thermal systems and technologies



Dr. Misato Sato

Research Interests: Climate policy instruments, emissions trading, competitiveness impacts, green economy



André De Rosa

Research Interests: Renewable Energy & Microgrid, Rural Electrification Finance, Energy Storage & Hydrogen



Anna Asikainen

Research Interests: Green and Sustainable Finance, ESG investments, Carbon Pricing, Emissions Trading Scheme, Climate Policy, Climate Risks and Opportunities



Dr. Kacper Szulecki

Research Interests: Energy democracy and energy justice, energy security, renewable energy transitions



Dr. Magda Moner-Girona

Research Interests: Renewable energy deployment, techno-economic analysis, rural electrification



Dr. Rajnish Ranjan

Research Interests: Disaster Risk Management, Hydrogeology, Geology and Virtual Learning Environment



Dr. Elin Lerum Boasson

Research Interests: Climate and energy policy, low emission economy, public policy theories



Dr. David Moser

Research Interests: Energy systems modelling and analysis, photovoltaic technologies, renewable energy transition



Dr. Roberta Boscolo

Research Interests: Climate and Energy Nexus, Meteorology and Climate data for Adaptation and Mitigation



Corrado Di Maria

Research Interests: Environmental policy and natural resource use, natural resource and energy economics



Dr. Joshua B. Horton

Research Interests: Solar geoengineering, solar radiation management, carbon dioxide removal, negative emissions technologies, climate politics, loss and damage



Dr. Rusyan Jill Mamiit

Research Interests: Climate change adaptation and risk assessment, Ecosystem services valuation, Water-food-energy nexus



Prof. Falendra Kumar Sudan

Research Interests: Environmental, Energy & Climate Change Economics, Water Governance and Institutions, Energy Poverty, Cleaner Energy Technologies



Prof. Ademola Oluborode Jegede

Research Interests: Interface of climate change and carbon dioxide removal options, and human rights law of vulnerable groups in Africa


Programme Advisors


Prof. John C. Anyanwu

Lead Research Economist, African Development Bank (AfDB)



Dr Fridah Kanana Erastus

Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Linguistics, Kenyatta University, Kenya



Dr Anna Görner

Managing course director, Centre for International Postgraduate Studies of Environmental Management (CIPSEM), Technische Universität Dresden, Germany


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