The Consortium
There are over 40 people working across the UK-MaRes Hub, including the Director, Co-Directors, Co-Investigators, Researchers, Technicians and Professional Service Staff, all passionate about driving forward the research and innovation needed to create meaningful change across the sector. See below to find out more about the people involved.
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Dr Jean-Baptiste Souppez
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical, Biomedical and Design Engineering
Jean-Baptiste R. G. Souppez is a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical, Biomedical and Design Engineering at Aston University. He was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for his outstanding impact on student outcomes and the teaching profession in higher education.
He is also a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and chairs the Assessment and Feedback Research Group at Aston University.
Thanks to his quality assurance expertise, he monitors the performance of professional bodies and the quality of education provided by higher education institutions on behalf of the Engineering Council, accredits higher education courses on behalf of both the Institute of Marine Science, Engineering and Technology (IMarEST) and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA), and is a Quality and Standards Assessor for the Office for Students as well as an invited expert for the Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practices.
Dr Sina Fadaie Sestelani
Postdoctoral Researcher at the EBRI at Aston University
Sina is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the EBRI – Energy & Bioproducts Research Institute.
Sina completed his PhD in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Engineering) at Aston University, UK. Sina’s research career began in early 2014, as a research assistant at the University of Guilan, Iran, working on stability problems in Geotechnical Engineering. During his master program, he was awarded the outstanding graduate student and his thesis was recognized as one of the selected theses in the area of Geotechnical Engineering. Now, he is working on a multi-disciplinary project with the highest score in College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Studentship Awards (academic year 2020-21, at Aston University) that focused on application of Fibre Optic Sensors to monitor geo-structures.
Prof Patricia Thornley
Director of EBRI, Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute
Patricia Thornley works in assessing the environmental, economic and social imapcts of renewable energy technologies, particularly bioenergy systems. She has experience of working in the commercial sector in power generation as well as in academia. She leads the EPSRC SUPERGEN Bioenergy hub (www.supergen-bioenergy.net) and is editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Biomass and Bioenergy.
Areas of Expertise: Chemistry, Supergen Project, Climate Change, Bioenergy, Environmental Sciences
