I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering and Associate Director of the Institute for Sustainability (IfS) at the University of Bath.

My research and teaching focus on measuring sustainability in design, engineering and decision making. This is essential to help people achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

As part of the Sustainable Systems theme of the IfS, my group and I use life cycle assessment (LCA) to reduce environmental footprints. We work in a variety of sectors including materials, construction, energy and manufacturing.

With experience in industry and Parliament, I am keen on collaboration across sectors to shape our research and to maximise its value.  Following a PhD and research contract in mechanical engineering (life cycle energy and carbon analysis of energy supply to buildings; 2006-09), I joined the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology as POST's energy adviser.  POST provides impartial and accessible research to Parliament, and I was also seconded to Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change.  During 2012-18 I was a senior associate at Sustain Ltd (now Anthesis) and then director at Circular Ecology (which maintains the ICE Embodied Carbon Database).  We helped companies with combined turnovers of greater than £10bn to measure and reduce their environmental footprint. Prior to 2006, I worked as an engineer in remote parts of Canada and Mexico, designing and building equipment and accommodation for ecological field research.

Interested in supervising students studying:

• Life cycle assessment
• Sustainable materials
• Sustainable energy technologies
• Sustainable manufacturing