Collaborating with industry for impact: 12 March 2025

Speakers at the collaborating with industry event answer questions

Loughborough and UCL ERBE students had a useful session together on 12th March 2025, thinking about collaboration between industry and academia and how this can lead to impactful work for academics and viable commercial outcomes for businesses. For PhD students and academics there are several different ways of working with industry, including Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, …

ERBE Research Placement at Yale University: Will Markiewicz

In this blog post Will Markiewicz tells us about his research placement at Yale University in the Summer of 2024. This summer I went to Yale University for a research placement. It was a great opportunity to experience a different research environment and gain some perspective on my PhD. My placement project was to assess …

Project management session kicks off 2024/25 ERBE training programme

This year, ERBE is kicking off a series of training sessions for UCL and LU students to learn a particular skill, and get the opportunity to network. UCL ERBE PhD student Yingyue Li reflects here on the first of these sessions, which took place on October 23rd in Loughborough. The session focused on Project Management, …

Register now for the ERBE Annual Colloquium 13 Nov 2024

REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. Please contact us to enquire about attending. Join us for the ERBE Annual Colloquium on 13 Nov 2024 at The Building Centre! This in-person event is a fantastic opportunity to network, learn, and engage with the latest research in the field of Energy Resilience and the Built Environment. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting out, …

ERBE PhD success – UCL student Adria Martin-Vilaseca passes viva

ERBE is delighted to congratulate Adria Martin-Vilaseca who studied at UCL and passed his viva in late April 2024. We spoke to Adria, the first UCL ERBE student to reach the viva, about his experiences in studying for a PhD. What was your thesis title? Exploring home heating practices: A social and technical analysis of …

How models can inform policy for the energy transition: ERBE student-led conference 2024

A team of ERBE students put on an excellent student-led conference in April 2024, hosted by Loughborough University. The theme, how models can inform policy, both showcased the span of modelling approaches used by ERBE students and challenged us in how we use, critique and communicate the results of our models. George Dawes and Marlena …

ERBE PhD success – MaREI student Nima Najafi Ziarani passes viva!

ERBE is delighted to congratulate our first PhD viva success! Nima Najadi Ziarani who studied at Munster Technological University (MTU) in Cork, Ireland passed his viva in December 2023. We spoke to Nima about his experiences studying for a PhD. What was your Thesis title: “Improving the Performance of Single-Sided Natural Ventilation Using Airflow Guiding …

Key highlights from the ERBE-LoLo Annual Colloquium 2023

Our largest event of the year, showcasing our research, innovation and promoting knowledge exchange, the much-anticipated ERBE-LoLo Annual Colloquium 2023 took place on 9th November 2023, preceded by an insightful pre-Colloquium training session on policy engagement, which was led by recent LoLo alumna, Dr Nicole Watson, who now works as a Senior Energy Researcher at …