Transport
Transport is a major focus for the University and for policy makers. These researchers are actively engaging with the policy process and would welcome further engagement from policy makers.

Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Deputy Head of School
Birmingham Law School
Anthony Arnull specialises in the law of the European Union. He worked at the European Court of Justice from 1989-92 and was Head of Birmingham Law School between 2006 and 2009. He was Acting Head of the College of Arts & Law at Birmingham from April to August 2015. Professor Arnull is the author of The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual (Leicester University Press, 1990); The ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 6295
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- a.m.arnull@bham.ac.uk

Head of School
Professor of Atmospheric Science
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Atmospheric processing controls the current and future composition of our atmosphere, and affects human and environmental health, air quality and climate. My research group addresses three areas of atmospheric chemistry central to these impacts :
- Measurement and interpretation of ozone production in the atmospheric boundary layer
- Sources and sinks for atmospheric oxidants: Impacts upon urban ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 7455 (Eileen Jackson, PA)/+44 (0)121 414 4173 (Research Office)
- Email
- w.j.bloss@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography
The Department of Strategy and International Business
John's research is motivated by a desire to understand and explain the complex ways in which production is organized through space and in place and via a variety of forms of enterprise.
- Telephone
- +44 (0)121 414 5549
- Email
- j.r.bryson@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Geotechnical Infrastructure Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Nigel Cassidy has over 30 years’ academic and industrial experience in near-surface geophysics, geotechnical engineering and numerical modelling. His research focuses on the development of remote monitoring, modelling and inversion techniques to solve practical environmental and geo-engineering problems.
Nigel has published 70+ peer-reviewed international journal papers, articles and book ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 5146
- Email
- n.j.cassidy@bham.ac.uk

Head of Physics and Astronomy
Director of the Birmingham Energy Institute (BEI)
School of Physics and Astronomy
Professor Martin Freer is head of Nuclear Physics, Director of the Birmingham Energy Institute and the Birmingham Centre for Nuclear Education and Research at the University of Birmingham.
His main research area is the study of the structure of light nuclei, using nuclear reactions. This research is performed at international facilities worldwide. In addition, he is actively engaged in ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 4565 /PA: +44 (0) 121 414 4564
- Email
- freerm@adf.bham.ac.uk

Professor of Bioenergy
School of Chemical Engineering
Professor Andreas Hornung has been appointed for the chair in Bioenergy.
Andreas Hornung holds 19 patents and has published more than 150 scientific publications to date. His institutes employed in 2014 about 120 staff members and are doing applied research in various sustainable topics.
The main strategic topic of Hornung’s work today is the development of decentralized power ...
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- +49 9661 908 408

Director, International Railway Benchmarking
Department of Civil Engineering
Professor Jack works within BCRRE to promote international railway benchmarking and other research, and to develop the extensive international relationships the University has already established across the globe.
He began his career at British Rail where he joined as a graduate trainee in 1979. He also worked at Railtrack and Network Rail, before joining RSSB in 2003. His credentials also ...
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- +44 (0) 121 415 8511/+44 (0) 7901 977455
- Email
- a.c.r.jack@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Institute of Local Government Studies
Louise is a lecturer at the Institute of Local Government Studies (INLOGOV). Her research is principally concerned with transport governance and the politics and policy of wellbeing.
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 121 414 8393
- Email
- l.h.reardon@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Railway Systems
Director of the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Clive is Professor of Railway Systems at the University of Birmingham and Director of the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education. Over the last 14 years he has developed a broad portfolio of research aimed at improving the performance of railway systems. He leads the University’s contribution in a number of large EPSRC, European Commission and industry funded projects. He ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 4306
- Email
- c.roberts.20@bham.ac.uk

Professor in Materials Chemistry
Co-Director of the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage
School of Chemistry
Professor Peter R. Slater is Professor in Materials Chemistry at the University of Birmingham and Co-Director of the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage. He has more than 25 years research experience in the area of solid state/materials chemistry, ranging from battery materials to solid oxide fuel cells. In these areas he has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals, and has ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 8906
- Email
- p.r.slater@bham.ac.uk

Professor in Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Research
Director of the Centre of Doctoral Training (CDT) in Fuel Cells and their Fuels
School of Chemical Engineering
Robert Steinberger-Wilckens is Professor for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen research in Chemical Engineering. He is director of the research Fuel Cell and Hydrogen group and the Centre for Doctoral Training Fuel Cells and their Fuels, which is run by the universities of Birmingham, Nottingham, and Loughborough, Imperial College, and University College of London.
He works and has worked in many areas ...
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- +44 (0) 121 415 8169
- Email
- r.steinbergerwilckens@bham.ac.uk

Chair in Interactive Multimedia Systems
Director, Human Interface Technologies Team
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Robert (Bob) Stone holds a Chair in Interactive Multimedia Systems within the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Birmingham, where he is also Director of the Human Interface Technologies (HIT) Team. He graduated from University College London in 1979 with a BSc in Psychology, and in 1981 with an MSc in Ergonomics. Bob also currently holds the position of Visiting ...
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- 07740858901/+44 (0)121 414 7395
- Email
- r.j.stone@bham.ac.uk

Chair in Thermodynamics
School Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Athanasios Tsolakis is Professor of Thermodynamics and Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer for the School of Engineering. Thanos has published over 150 research papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings in the areas of fuels and fuel treatments, low carbon and carbon free energy carriers, combustion and vehicle emissions control technologies such as environmental ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 4170
- Email
- a.tsolakis@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Casting
School of Metallurgy and Materials
Paul Withey joined the School of Metallurgy and Materials in 2018 after a career in Rolls-Royce, culminating as the Engineering Associate Fellow in Casting Technology. This has limited the number of refereed papers to just over thirty, but this has been balanced by fourteen published patents.
Paul’s interests involve investment casting with a focus on the casting of aerospace components. ...

Chair in Energy and Automotive Engineering
Head of Vehicle and Engine Technology Centre
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Hongming Xu is Professor of Energy and Automotive Engineering. He has 6 years of industrial experience with Jaguar Land Rover and Premier Automotive Group of Ford. Formerly member of Ford HCCI, Global Steering Committee, project manager and technical leader of the UK Foresight Vehicle LINK projects, CHARGE and CHASE between 2002 and 2007.
He has over 300 journal and conference publications in ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 4153
- Email
- h.m.xu@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Electrical Power Systems
Director of Institute for Energy Research and Policy
Director of Smart Grid, Birmingham Energy Institute Co-Director, Birmingham Energy Storage Centre (sponsored by EPSRC)
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Xiao-Ping Zhang is a Professor of Electrical Power Systems, Director of Smart Grid, Birmingham Energy Institute, and Co-Director of Birmingham Energy Storage Centre sponsored by UK, and Head of the Electrical Power & Control Systems Group
Xiao-Ping has published over 100 research papers in scientific journals, conference proceedings as well as ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 4298
- Email
- x.p.zhang@bham.ac.uk