Research staff

Professor Franco Kai Tak Cheung

Professor in Sustainable Built Environment, College Lead in Research, Innovation and Enterprise

As the Professor in Sustainable Built Environment, Prof Franco Cheung has consistently led transformative research and practical initiatives in sustainable construction, focusing on enhancing the productivity and performance of building design and construction while reducing the environmental impacts of development,...

Professor David Edwards

Professor of Plant and Machinery Management

David has accrued considerable leadership and management experience in the roles of teaching, award management and development, quality enhancement, student liaison and the national student survey (NSS), academic administration and research at a number of higher education institutes in this country and abroad. He is currently...

Mr Timothy Lee

Associate Professor in Property Investment

Tim ran his own property firm on the Isle of Wight for over ten years and during that time completed his MSc Real Estate. Following that he secured funding for his PhD at Reading University where he explored the challenges of making energy efficiency improvements to the housing stock. His first academic position was as a...

Dr Monica Mateo-Garcia

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Built Environment

Dr. Monica Mateo-Garcia is a Senior Lecturer in Built Environment at Birmingham City University. She teaches building design, production, sustainability, research and innovation in undergraduate and postgraduate courses across the School. Monica is an Architect with over 15 years' professional and academic experience. She...

Dr Mohammad Mayouf

Senior Lecturer in Digital Built Environment

Mohammad comes from a Civil Engineering background, which was obtained from Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus in 2010. Following his undergraduate degree, Mohammad worked for a year in the industry, and came to England in 2011 to pursue an MSc degree in Project Management at Teesside University. In 2012, he was...

Mr Panagiotis Patlakas

Panagiotis is a structural engineer with further qualifications in architecture and a strong interest in information technology. His research interests cover a range of topics in these fields, such as structural timber design, digital civil engineering, and sustainability. He is particularly interested in the development of...