Senior Academic and Research Staff
Get to know our key academic and research staff.
Director
Senior Professor Paul Cooper
Director
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC)
pcooper@uow.edu.au
02 4221 3355
Research Interests
- Ventilation, pollution control and energy conservation in buildings
- Renewable Energy Technologies
Deputy Director
Associate Professor Duane Robinson
Deputy Director and Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
duane@uow.edu.au
02 4221 4530
Research Interests
- Energy efficiency in networks and at point of utilisation
- Monitoring building performance for energy efficiency
- Microgrids, renewables and distributed generation
- Power quality and mitigation techniques
Senior Lecturers
Dr Georgios Kokogiannakis
Senior Lecturer
School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
gkg@uow.edu.au
4221 5795
Research Interests
- Building energy modelling and monitoring
- Energy efficient building design
- Renewable energy systems
- Healthy building environments
- Smart ventilation systems
- Green roofs and living walls
- Experimental and inter-model comparison validation techniques
- Modelling of phase change materials
- Energy and carbon ratings
- Building energy performance regulations
Dr Zhenjun Ma
Senior Lecturer
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
zhenjun@uow.edu.au
02 4221 4143
Research Interests
- Optimal and robust control of building energy systems
- Phase change materials and their applications in buildings
- Low energy technologies and zero emission buildings
- Dynamic modelling and simulation of building energy systems
- HVAC and BMS system fault detection and diagnosis
- Solar photovoltaic thermal systems and advanced solar-driven air-conditioning systems
- Ground source heat pumps
Professor Tim McCarthy
Acting Head of School
Director Engineering and Mathematics Education Research Group (EMERG)
Academic Adviser Team UOW Australia – Solar Decathlon Middle East
School of Civil Mining and Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
timmc@uow.edu.au
02 4221 4591
Research Interests
- Sustainable buildings
- Engineering Education Research
- Design of Steel Structures
- Conceptual Design
- Information Modelling
- Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design
- Integrated Design Systems
- Information and knowledge management in Construction
- Computer Aided Design
- Performance based multi-criterion optimization
- Ecologically sustainable Structural Design
- Mooring design for floating offshore structures
Senior Research
Scott Beazley
Senior Research Fellow
Sustainable Building Research Centre
sbeazley@uow.edu.au
02 4221 8111
Research Interests
- BIM (Building Information Modelling)
- Building design collaboration
- Sustainable Building Design
- Digital model checking and validation
- Linking 3D models with 4D(time) and 5D(cost)
- Building data exchanges: IFC: Industry Foundation Classes, IDM: Information Delivery Manuals
- Interoperability of building design and analysis software
Research Fellow
Dr Aziz Ahmed
Associate Research Fellow
Steel Research HUB and Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
aziza@uow.edu.au
02 4239 2168
Research Interests
- Cold formed Steel Structures
- Structural Dynamics
- Ice-structure interaction
- Fracture mechanics
- Marine Structural Steel Connections
- High-rise concrete structures
- Earthquake Engineering
- FRP based Structural Retrofit
Dr Daniel Daly
Associate Research Fellow
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC)
ddaly@uow.edu.au
02 4239 2130
Research Interests
- Energy efficient building design
- Existing building retrofit strategies
- Building energy modelling
- Human factors in building sustainability
- Building energy rating schemes
Alberto Escribano
Research Fellow
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
albertoe@uow.edu.au
Research interests:
- TQM strategies and tactics in construction industry
- Manufacturing principles applied to building processes
- Modular construction
- New approaches of supply chain strategy
Dr Massimo Fiorentini
Research Fellow
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC)
massimo@uow.edu.au
02 4239 2145
Research Interests
- Renewable Energy Technologies
- Energy Management and Model Predictive Control
- Modelling of Building Energy Systems
- Intelligent Ventilation Systems
Alan Green
Research Fellow
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC)
alang@uow.edu.au
Research Interests
- Fluid dynamics
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- Technologies for improved building thermal performance
- Building resilience to bushfire
- Experimental assessment of building element thermos-physical properties
Dr Emma Heffernan
Research Fellow
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
eheffern@uow.edu.au
02 4239 2143
Research Interests
- Energy efficient design in residential buildings
- Sustainable communities
- Sustainable construction
- Building energy modelling
- Climate change adaptation
Michael Tibbs
Energy Efficiency Research Fellow
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC)
mtibbs@uow.edu.au
02 4221 3677
Research Interests
- Energy efficiency retrofits for residential buildings
- Building energy efficiency characterisation tools
- Remote area wind power generation and storage system integration
Associate Research Fellows
Dr Laia Ledo
Associate Research Fellow
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
laia@uow.edu.au
4221 2135
Research Interests
- Building Energy Modelling
- Building Energy Performance Evaluation
- Indoor Environmental Quality Assessment
- Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE)
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Federico Tartarini
Associate Research Fellow
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
federico@uow.edu.au
4239 2109
Research interests:
- Thermal comfort and Indoor Environmental Quality;
- Renewable energy technologies;
- HVAC and BMS system fault detection and diagnosis.
Matthew Daly
Associate Research Fellow
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
mdaly@uow.edu.au
Research interests:
- Collaborative housing communities and sustainability (cohousing, ecovillages, eco-communities etc)
- Sustainable consumption, energy efficiency and changing practices
- Energy efficient design in residential buildings
- Community-led approaches to sustainability and resilience
