Dr. Stephen Allen is a lecturer and engineer working in the fields of energy analysis, carbon footprinting and life cycle assessment (LCA).  His research focuses on radically reducing the carbon footprint of the built environment, by tackling both embodied and operational emissions.  Current collaborative projects include:

• £36m Active Buildings Centre
• £18m UK Energy Research Centre
• €7m Circular Biobased Construction Industry
• Supervising PhD researchers on whole-life carbon assessment of buildings, sustainable construction materials, and energy storage

Stephen's research and teaching draws on professional experience in policy and commercial environments.  During 2010-12 he worked as the Scientific Adviser on Energy at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), informing and influencing energy and climate policy.  In 2012-18 he was a senior consultant at Sustain and then director at Circular Ecology, helping companies to reduce the environmental footprint of buildings, rail transport and consumer products.  He has also worked as an engineer in remote parts of Canada and Mexico, designing and building equipment and accomodation to support ecological field research.

His publications have been used by parliament, government and the Committee on Climate Change to inform policy, and by professional magazines to influence practice in industry.  He has won the prestigous George Stephenson Medal from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (for best original paper), and a place on the USA’s International Visitor Leadership Programme on climate change and renewable energy.  He is conversationally fluent in Spanish.

Interested in supervising students studying:

• Low energy and low carbon design of buildings
• Sustainable building materials
• Sustainable energy technologies
• Thermodynamics and heat transfer
• Carbon footprinting
• Life cycle assessment