Our BCRRE team

A dynamic and diverse group of over 100 experts dedicated to advancing railway research and education, BCRRE includes academics, researchers, industrial fellows, professional services staff, lab technicians, and teaching fellows working together to drive innovation and excellence in the railway sector. From pioneering research projects to hands-on teaching and essential support services, each team member plays a vital role in shaping the future of railways. We're passionate about our work and committed to significantly impacting our field and beyond.

Meet our team

Research Fellows

PhD researchers

  • Outhman Abahussain – Ultra-rapid charging of electric vehicles using modular push-pull converters.
  • Mustafa Kamal Abdulhussein Al Mahmud – Life Cycle Assessment and Rehabilitation for Sustainable and Resilient Transportation Infrastructure
  • Mothanna Al-Sunjury – New compatible architectures for the grid for the integration of renewable energy sources
  • Basit Ali – Fault detection and localization in grid-connected photovoltaic systems.
  • Hussain Almomen – Digital Twins for assessing and mitigating the impacts of extreme temperature for the built environment
  • Gamze Aydin – Investigating the primary factors influencing rail passenger demand and satisfaction in United Kingdom during the post-COVID period.
  • Orhun Baturar – Design of a new type of railway track switch machine
  • Clive Damien Cashin – Engineering & Leadership
  • Guanqiao Chen – Railway System Operation Simulation and Optimisation
  • Siru Chen – Healthy Low-Carbon Transport System Interventions
  • Yuslizar Daud – Change-Safe Principles in Railway Safety
  • Christopher Davis – Dynamic Skip-Stop
  • Jack Devey – Automated Methods for Digitisation of Historical Railway Timetables
  • Aryadhatu Dhaniswara – Artificial Intelligence Powered Digital Twin for Ballasted Railway Track Monitoring
  • Ghassan Dharb – Fast Charging solutions for electric vehicles with integrated energy storage and renewable power sources.
  • Erdogan Dinc – A Half-Bridge Modular Multilevel Converter to Drive an Induction Motor
  • Shailendra Gupta – Streamlining the Transition to ETCS and Automated signalling
  • Richard Horridge – Next generation continuous railway track monitoring using passenger trains
  • Aliya Kassen – Operational Network Responses to Weather Events to Improve Future Climate Resilience
  • Barq Kattan – Digital Twins of Power Converters Connected to Network Rail
  • Lalitphat Khongsomchit – AI-based digital twins for high-speed train rolling stock asset management towards circular economy.
  • Yanuarini Kuswanti – Railway Management
  • Yuchu Liao – Railway system test coverage
  • Yi-Hsuan Lin – Systems Thinking Approach for Resilience Management of Railway System Maintenance
  • Bei Liu – Innovative power supply for electric railways with 100% renewable power sources
  • Rucheng Liu – Urban Sustainability Resilience and Economic Growth from the Railway System
  • Shining Liu – Research on Forward Environment Cooperative Perception Method for Automated Trains Based on Vehicle Infrastructure Cooperation
  • Muhammad Mansattha – Gradient-Enhanced Neural Network (GENN) Optimization Methodof a Magnetically Levitated Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester Under Sweeping-Frequency
  • Achila Mazini – ETCS-3 simulation and testing
  • Sean McCabe – Formal Methods for Railway Systems
  • Kamonphop Meepaen – Robotics, Automation and Control in Railway Systems
  • Chimeta Mulambia – Operational and VR modelling of new service running
  • Ugur Mutlu – Value-based railway asset management framework for railway systems using digital twins
  • Hao Ni – Automatic route setting system, Panel Request, Signaller, Long short term memory, XGBoost, Support vector machine
  • James Niemann – Integration of Renewable Energy Systems into Railway Power Systems
  • Alper Ozden – Optimization of Using Six-Phase PMSM in RTG Crane Systems
  • Jayaprakash Paramasivam – The impact of modern signalling systems on railway capacity
  • Qinyao Peng – Digital Railway Energy and Operation Systems for Decarbonisation
  • Calum Phelan – High-voltage DC systems for low-emission and zero-emission waterborne transport
  • Andrew Pollard – Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice: Investigating the Barriers to Achieving Projected Energy Savings in Railway Systems
  • Samantha-Aurora Prewitt – Digital Twins for the UK Railway Network for Predicting Crosswind Hazards and Train Overturning Risk
  • Adamu Salihu – Application of emerging technologies on future transport systems
  • Richard Schaeffer – Applications of Game Theory to the Railway Industry
  • Mohammed Shehu – Multimodal freight optimisation for sustainable development in low and middle income countries
  • Noodhir Sobun – A systems approach in GB Rail to bring the management of occupational health and wellbeing on par with safety
  • Cakra Wicaksana – Whole system optimisation of energy within railway systems
  • Simon Wiggins – Aerodynamics of Close-Running and Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in Crosswind conditions
  • Guanting Wu – Electrical Engineering and Railway Decarbonization
  • Liu Yang – Coordinated planning of multi-energy system (MES) in the rail-road transportation system (RRTS)
  • Hehan Yu – The application of big data analytics in support of rail decarbonisation strategies
  • Ruojing Zhang – Understanding the Relationship Between Home-based Working, Wellbeing and Mobility
  • Xinyuan Zhang – Durability and Performance of CFRP-based Retrofit of Aging Transport Infrastructures for Climate Change Adaptation
  • Kaiyuan Zheng – The effects of cross winds on the aerodynamics of high-speed trains

Teaching Fellows

Professional Services

  • Katherine Roberts - Senior Administrator 
  • Sarah Yeo - Operations Manager 
  • Thomas Harvey - IT Manager
  • Alec Gillham - Business Engagement Partner (Future Mobility) 
  • Rebecca Beck - Project Officer