Dr Ali Al-Graiti

PhD Title: Evaluating the environmental performance of nanomaterials in architecture

Supervisors: Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez & Steve Sharples

PhD awarded: October 2021

Dr Ali Aldersoni

PhD Title: Improving the energy performance of future Saudi Ministry of Housing building designs to achieve the country’s future climate change targets

Supervisors: Daveed Chow & Steve Sharples

PhD awarded: September 2021

Dr Zuhair A. Abbas Nasar

PhD Title: PARA-SIM: a hybrid technology-mediated approach to learning energy modelling in architectural design education

Supervisors: Daveed Chow, Nick Webb & Tuba Kocaturk

PhD awarded: December 2020

Dr Hussein Hussein

PhD Title: Transformable spatial bar structures - an algorithmic design and evaluation framework to develop free-form transformable structures (FFTS)

Supervisors: Rob Kronenburg & Asterios Agkathidis

PhD awarded: December 2020

Dr Mohammed Abuhussain

PhD Title: An Assessment of the Saudi Residential Buildings Envelope Code Under the Current and Future Climate Change Scenarios: The Case for Jeddah in the Hot and Humid Climate Region.

Supervisors: Daveed Chow & Steve Sharples

PhD awarded: October 2020

Dr Mohammad Alshenaifi

PhD Title: Optimizing the performance of Passive Downdraught Evaporative Cooling (PDEC) towers for Saudi housing: investigating the impact of architectural form.

Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Daveed Chow

PhD awarded: October 2020

Dr Yara Ayyad

PhD Title: Outdoor thermal comfort and airflow in relation to urban form in Amman, Jordan: a residential setting analysis.

Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Daveed Chow

PhD awarded: October 2020

Dr Roy Sigalingging

PhD Title: Applying the Passivhaus standard to terraced housing in Jakarta, Indonesia – analysis for a hot and humid tropical climate, PhD, 2020

Supervisors: Daveed Chow & Steve Sharples

PhD awarded: June 2020

Dr Fahad Alyami

PhD Title: The impact of passive façade design treatments on the thermal performance of office buildings in Saudi Arabia for current and future climates

Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Daveed Chow

PhD awarded: May 2020

Dr Edgar Pina Hernandez

PhD Title: An investigation of the thermal comfort and climate change resilience of bioclimatic design strategies for free running social housing in San Luis Potosi City, Mexico

Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Daveed Chow

PhD awarded: October 2019

Sureepan Supansomboon

MPhil title: Classroom façade design for daylighting in hot-humid climates

Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez

MPhil awarded: June 2019

Dr Stephanie Ogunrin

PhD title: A parametric analysis of the thermal properties of contemporary materials used for house construction in south-western Nigeria, using thermal modelling and relevant weather data

Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Daveed Chow

PhD awarded: March 2019

Dr Qichao Ban

PhD title: Integrated design strategies for sustainable evidence-based healthcare design,

Supervisors: Bing Chen & Steve Sharples

PhD awarded: January 2019

Dr Amer Habib Al-Sudani

PhD title: Analyzing the influence of urban morphology on thermal microclimate in a temperate maritime climate

Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Fei Chen

PhD awarded: October 2018

Dr Yahya Lavaf Pour

PhD Title: Self-shading façade geometry to control summer overheating in UK Passivhaus dwellings for current and future climate scenarios

Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Carl Hopkins

PhD awarded: August 2017

Dr Mai Khalfan

PhD Title: An assessment of the Passivhaus standard for a hot and arid climate: a case study in Qatar

Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Rosa Urbano Gutierrez

PhD awarded: June 2017

Dr Mahmoud Elkhatieb

PhD Title: Climatically adaptive building surfaces for optimised environmental performance

Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Daveed Chow

PhD awarded: May 2017