After graduating with a MEng degree in Civil Engineering (2021), Marios obtained a MSc. in Environmental Design and Engineering from the UCL (2022) and in September 2022 joined ERBE as a PhD researcher funded by EPSRC and Buro Happold. Whilst studying he worked as an intern in an engineering consultancy company in Athens, Greece and as a part time research assistant at the UCL (April – October 2022) on a project funded by the Enfield Council aiming to analyse waste and by-product streams of industrial activities in Enfield and to identify circularity opportunities for synergetic exchange of resources and materials.

Marios’s PhD ambition is to develop a holistic LCA framework, susceptive to dynamic changes, that deals with the whole life impact of built environment projects with regard to energy, carbon – embodied or operational and water on various ecosystem health indicators. The framework’s dynamic character is attributed to its adaptability to temporal phenomena such as grid’s decarbonisation and the time it takes for ecosystems to regenerate from the proposed indicators’ impact. The framework’s applicability, consultation and building design potential as a tool will be tested under the guidance of Buro Happold, the research’s sponsor from industry.