Senior Academic and Research Staff
Our key academic staff include:
Prof Paul Cooper
Director, Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC)
email: pcooper@uow.edu.au
phone: +61 2 4221 3355
Research Interests
- Ventilation, pollution control and energy conservation in buildings
- Renewable Energy Technologies
Dr Duane Robinson
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
email: duane@uow.edu.au
phone: +61 2 4221 4530
Research Interests
- Sustainable building practices
- Energy efficiency in networks and at point of utilisation
- Micro grids and distributed generation
- Modelling, analysis and control of power distribution systems
- Power quality and mitigation techniques
Dr Lan Ding
Senior Lecturer
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC)
email: lding@uow.edu.au
phone: +61 2 4221 5916
Research Interests
- Agent-based modelling of collective intelligence for energy efficiency
- Human-centred intelligent built environment
- Energy efficiency and climate adaptation
- Zero-emission housing
- Building and urban scale retrofitting
- Human consumption behaviour modelling
- Integrated sustainability assessment
- Integration of smart grid with smart buildings and cities
- Building information modelling (BIM) and urban information modelling
- 3D virtual environments
Dr Zhenjun Ma
Lecturer
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC)
email: zhenjun@uow.edu.au
phone: +61 2 4221 4143
Research Interests
- Building Energy efficiency
- Low energy technology and zero emission buildings
- Optimal and robust control of energy systems
- Dynamic modelling and simulation of building systems
- HVAC and BMS system fault detection and diagnosis
- Energy Efficiency in manufacturing and industrial processes
- Energy storage systems (e.g. ice storage, phase change material storage)
Dr Weiliang Zhao
Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC) & SMART Infrastructure Facility
email: wzhao@uow.edu.au
phone: +61 2 4221 5637
Research Interests
- Information modelling and smart services
- Integration of smart grid with smart buildings and cities
- Energy efficiency and climate adaption
- Spatial analysis and modelling based on GIS
- Thermal modelling of buildings
Dr Mohammed Imroz Sohel
Research Fellow
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC)
email: msohel@uow.edu.au
phone: +61 2 4221 8178
Research Interests
- Energy systems analysis
- Thermodynamics
- Process modelling, simulation and optimization
- Techno-economic analysis
- Bioenergy
- Geothermal energy
- Solar energy
- Inegrated renewable energy systems
- Thermal systems modelling