Blue-Green Energy

Amani Becker

I’m a coastal scientist with expertise in microphytobenthos and sediment biogeochemistry. My research interests are centred on coastal processes and resilience, with a focus on stakeholder engagement, capacity building and achieving impact from research. I am currently involved in projects in the UK, the Southwest Indian Ocean and the Caribbean.

https://noc.ac.uk/n/Amani+Becker 

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resilience, The Sea and Society, Oceans and Climate
Affiliation: National Oceanography Centre 

Colin Bell

I am the software and technical manager for the products team at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool.  I have been a professional software designer and developer for nearly 30 years specialising in marine software for tidal level / current prediction and harmonic analysis - working with both coastal data (from tide gauges) and offshore data (from numerical model simulations).  I've been involved with a number of ports/harbours and offshore operators, and worked on specific projects for renewable energy, flood defence and particle tracking.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resilience, Oceans and Climate, Ports and Maritime, The Sea and Society
Afilliation: National Oceanography Centre

Eddie Blanco-Davis

I am an LJMU Senior Lecturer and LOOM member since July 2015. I obtained a BSc on Marine Engineering and Shipyard Management from the US Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY, in 2004, and sailed briefly on containerships. I also hold an MSc and a PhD from the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering from the University of Strathclyde.

My research interests include human factors applied to shipboard operations; life cycle assessment applied to marine operations and machinery; marine environmental protection and regulation, including emission control, ship ballast water management and alternatives; and environmentally sound marine propulsion systems.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Oceans and Climate, Ports and Maritime
Affiliation: Liverpool John Moores University

Ana Bras

I am Ana Bras, CEng, FICE, PhD and Reader (Associate Professor) in Bio-materials for Infrastructure at the School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), with 19 years of experience on development of construction materials and systems aligned with UK net-zero strategy for infrastructure. I established a research group to develop and implement innovative self-healing bio-based materials, making infrastructures more resilient and durable to water environments, through the re-use of locally available soil and wastes. The aim is to promote recovery and adaptation to environment change, limiting resource depletion. I generated over £1.8 million of direct contribution to LJMU as PI/Co-I (MSCAs Horizon Europe, H2020, Royal Society, ICE, RAEng, British Council, etc). 

https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-engineering-and-technology/school-of-civil-engineering-and-built-environment/ana-armada-bras

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Ports and Maritime, The Living Ocean

Affiliation: Liverpool John Moores University

Jill Burgess

I’m a Liverpool girl born and bred and even stayed in our wonderful city to study Geography at the University of Liverpool.  I’ve been at the National Oceanography Centre since 2004 working within the Marine Information Products and Services Team which is the commercial arm of the NOC. My aim within LISCO is to develop new collaborations, business partnerships and new opportunities with those interested in coastal processes, tidal predictions, and coastal management. Additionally I am particularly interested in continuing to develop good public engagement activities in order to raise public awareness of the research within LISCO.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resilience, Oceans and Climate, Ports and Maritime, The Living Ocean, Sea and Society
Affiliation: National Oceanography Centre

Michela De Dominicis

I am a physical oceanographer in the Marine Systems Modelling Group at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool. My research studies how the ocean interacts with any external factors, mostly human intervention. I use high-resolution ocean models to understand the changes that might take place in shelf seas and coastal zones in the next few decades. This includes “what-if” scenarios to investigate the impact of large arrays of offshore renewable energy devices, but also the response of coastal areas to extreme storms, sea level rise and different coastal protection measures.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resilience
Affiliation: National Oceanography Centre

Simone Durr

I am a benthic community ecologist and work applied in biofouling and antifouling. My interests are in the multidisciplinary development of non-toxic antifouling solutions, biofouling quantification methods, ballast water, invasive species, larval behaviour and species interactions in a changing environment due to the climate change.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Oceans and Climate, Ports and Maritime, The Living Ocean
Affiliation: Liverpool John Moores University

Jason Holt

I am head of the Marine Systems Modelling Group at the NOC, which makes a substantial contribution to the international effort on ocean modelling. My experience and expertise is in physical oceanography and coupled hydrodynamic-ecosystem processes, and particular areas of interest include the impact of climate change on coasts, shelf-seas and ocean margins, and its relation to human pressures. I have acted as PI or group lead on many NERC and EC projects. I lead the National Capability International Science programme: Future states Of the global Coastal ocean: Understanding for Solution (FOCUS;  https://noc.ac.uk/projects/focus), and the modelling component of  Climate Linked Atlantic Sector Science (CLASS;  https://projects.noc.ac.uk/class-project/). I co-chair the National Partnership for Ocean Prediction (oceanprediction.org).

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Oceans and Climate
Affiliation: National Oceanography Centre

Çağatay Iris

Çağatay Iris is a Lecturer (equivalent, Assistant Professor) in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Liverpool Management School. Çağatay has research interests in transport and logistics (including freight transport, next-generation ports, shipping, hinterlands, urban logistics, crowdshipping), shared economy and energy management. Recently, he has projects related to energy efficiency in seaports, port microgrids, economic investment analysis in maritime energy projects and fuels. He mostly uses mathematical modelling and data analytics methods to help decision marking in logistics investments, improve the performance of logistics systems, and reach net-zero targets. 

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Oceans and Climate, Ports and Maritime, The Living Ocean, Sea and Society
Affiliation: University of Liverpool Management School

 

David Jones

I am the Head of Mechanical Engineering at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) Liverpool, where I have worked since 1990. My role is to design and oversee the manufacture of bespoke equipment used in all NOC projects. I design build, and deploy equipment for tide gauge systems in the UK and overseas, deep ocean landers, instrument platforms, instrument deployment and recovery systems. I also manage the mechanical workshop; which is equipped with CNC machinery enabling us to produce precision parts and prototypes. We also have an area for the assembly and testing of equipment prior to deployment.  

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resilience, Oceans and Climate, Ports and Maritime, The Living Ocean, Sea and Society
Affiliation: National Oceanography Centre

Ming Li

I have extensive experiences of numerical and physical modelling of coastal sediment transport and morphodynamics processes. Research activities include investigation of fundamental turbulence effects on sediment transport using multiphase CFD models, study of coastal boundary processes, and developing numerical models for prediction large-scale morphodynamic changes around coastal structures and river delta. I have also been actively involved in numerical modelling of marine renewable energy research, including tidal barrage across estuary, tidal stream and offshore wind turbine foundation in the seas. Recent works extend into vegetation effects on sediment transport in coastal seas and river estuaries using computer models.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resillience, Oceans and Climate
Affiliation: University of Liverpool

Christian Matthews

As Director of the School of Engineering at Liverpool John Moores University I lead an academic team with a broad range of interests in the Maritime and Marine sectors. My role means that I am involved in projects ranging from renewable offshore energy sources, through cleaner energy efficient ships, to the management of ports and maritime infrastructure. I am an active participant with the International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU) and am a current member of their working group on research projects.  

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Ports and Maritime
Affiliation: Liverpool John Moores University

Jeff Polton

I am the Shelf Seas Team leader in the Marine Systems Modelling Group at the NOC. We have a long history in developing regional hydrodynamic models of shelf seas, and in particular the European shelf seas which are strong controlled by tidal processes. I am also the Coastal Ocean theme lead for the Joint Marine Modelling Programme (a partnership between the Met Office and UK research centres). In this role I coordinate European shelf sea model development of operational services and as a research tool for the UK ocean community. This also compliments my role as co-leader of the NEMO (Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean) community engagement working group. In addition to these responsibilities my research interests include:  wave processes and turbulence (Turbulence modelling, observation and parameterisation development to improve simulation of the ocean); and the Shelf Sea response to changing seas (impact of changing climate on shelf seas). I also enjoy developing software tools to aid science discovery and communication: e.g. anyTide (2013-2021), a mobile app for tide predictions, and COAsT, a python toolkit for assessing an diagnosing ocean simulations.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resilience, Oceans and Climate
Affiliation: National Oceanography Centre

Mehdi Seddighi

Mehdi Seddighi is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Fluid Mechanics at Liverpool John Moores University. He is a BSc in Aerospace Engineering, MSc in Aerospace Engineering (Aerodynamics), and holds a PhD degree in Fluid Mechanics from University of Aberdeen. His research interests include unsteady turbulent flow, control of turbulent flow, hydrodynamics, and marine renewable energy, using numerical and experimental techniques. The numerical approach includes, a high-fidelity in-house DNS (direct numerical simulation) and LES (large eddy simulation) code, CHAPSim, which is developed initially by him and then further developed by other researchers under his supervision over the past decade.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resilience, Oceans and Climate
Affiliation:  Liverpool John Moores University

Dmitry Shchukin

I am Professor in Chemistry at the University of Liverpool, Director of Ultra Mixing and Processing group at the Chemistry Department, University of Liverpool. My research activities include the study of the non-equilibrated interfaces; development of composite hollow nanocontainers  with controlled shell permeability for encapsulation of the energy-enriched materials, biocides, phase change materials, drugs, corrosion inhibitors; development of nanocontainer-based feedback active surfaces for further application in active self-healing materials, antifouling coatings and medicine; synthesis of nanomaterials with new properties in the ultrasonic cavitation zone, synthesis of amorphous nanocomposites with enhanced catalytic performance in non-equilibrated conditions at the cavitation interface; ultrasonic surface modification of metals for catalytic and biomedical (implants) applications.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Ports and Maritime
Affiliation: University of Liverpool

Sarah Wakelin

I work in the Marine Systems Modelling Group at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool, using coupled hydrodynamic-ecosystem models to study physics and ecosystem processes from the coast though shelf seas to the wider ocean. I am interested in the impacts of climate change and other anthropogenic issues (eg discharge from rivers and offshore wind energy provision) on ocean dynamics and the marine ecosystem. I also study fluxes and budgets of carbon and nutrients, from river sources to shelf-ocean exchange. Current projects include LOCATE, CLASS and ECOWINGS.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Oceans and Climate
Affiliation: National Oceanography Centre

Jin Wang

Prof. Jin Wang’s research interests are in design and operation of large maritime engineering systems. He has published extensively in this area, making him among top 100 in Civil Engineering globally. He has led three EU funded projects as coordinator, and as PI seven EPSRC funded projects. He has won several awards for his research work including the 2017 RINA - Lloyd’s Register Maritime Safety Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has completed the supervision of over 80 doctoral or postdoctoral researchers. Prof. Wang was a sub-panel member (Unit of Assessment 12) in the UK’s REF 2014 and 2021. He is also Chair of the UK-Malaysia University Consortium (UK-MUC).

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resilience, Ports and Maritime
Affiliation: Liverpool John Moores University

Judith Wolf

I am a retired physical oceanographer. Previously I worked in the Marine Systems Modelling Group at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool. My research interests included the modelling of tides, surges, waves and their interactions in continental shelf waters and coastal seas, wave climate, marine renewable energy and the coastal impacts of climate change. I have been involved in the use of coupled models to investigate estuarine processes, atmosphere-wave-hydrodynamic interactions and tidal energy, focussing on resource assessment and environmental impacts. My geographical areas of interest have included the NW European continental shelf, Bangladesh, South China and Small Island Developing States in the Caribbean.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resilience, Oceans and Climate
Affiliation: National Oceanography Centre

Marta Payo Payo

I am a research scientist working at coast, at the interface between land, ocean and people.
My research focuses on coastal hazards and on transport processes, and I use numerical models to understand hydrodynamics and transport processes in coastal environments under anthropogenic impacts including climate change. Lately I'm more interested on how natural habitats can help make our coastal systems more resilient to climate change and human activities. I enjoy science communication and together with other scientists have established collaborations with artists and social scientists trying to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and general knowledge.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resillience, Oceans and Climate, The Sea and Society
Affiliation: National Oceanography Centre 

Iain Young

Iain promotes cross-disciplinary approaches addressing sustainability and food security challenges while delivering impactful R&D with industry partners. His projects address issues such as improving the sustainability of nutrition for aquaculture and agriculture, novel sensor development for water quality, smart approaches for control and monitoring and food chain optimisation.

Research and Knowledge Exchange highlights: Black Soldier Fly larvae as a Bioconverter of food waste into fish feed, development of novel water treatment systems, detection methods for flavour tainting compounds and pathogens in water, the use of fish waste in renewable energy production, hydrogen powered aquaponics systems and outreach projects engaging local schools in urban farming.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resilience, Oceans and Climate, The Sea and Society
Affiliation: University of Liverpool

Bin Guo

I am a research scientist in the Marine Systems Modelling Group at NOC. My previous research primarily involved coastal ocean modelling, hydro-environmental research, and tidal energy development, with a particular emphasis on tidal range energy schemes. My current research focuses on investigating the risks and impacts of climate change and direct anthropogenic drivers on coastal ocean physics and the implications for biogeochemistry and ecosystems.

Themes: Blue Green Energy, Coastal Resilience
Affiliation: National Oceanography Centre