Research Experience
Present – Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Renewable Energy and Carbon Removal, University of Hull (U.K.)
2020-2022 – Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania (U.S.)
2019-2020 – Research Fellow, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (U.S.)
2017-2019 – Research Fellow, Heriot-Watt University (U.K.)
2015-2017 – Research Fellow, Newcastle University (U.K.)
Teaching Experience
Present – Course Leader, Low Carbon Energy Solutions
Present – Course Leader, Research Issues in Environmental Management and Renewable Energy
Present – Lecturer, Principles of Renewable Energy
2018-2019 – Adjunct Professor, Process Modelling: Computational Simulation and Control w/MATLAB, Heriot-Watt University
2015-2016 – Adjunct Professor, Environmental Engineering, Newcastle University
Awards and Scholarship
Winner of the IET innovation awards – Transport category, 2019
Highly commended in the IET innovation awards – Sustainability and Environmental impact Category, 2019
Runner-up, IChemE global awards – Research category, 2019
Runner-up, British Airways (BA) Flight: 2119 ‘jet fuels of the future’ competition (£5,000), 2019
CO2Chem travel bursary: 17th ICCDU 2019 conference (£750), 2019
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK Enhanced training grant: sustainable transport research (£4,500), 2009
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK – Data science for intelligent transport scholarship (£45,500), 2009
Service
Associate Editor – Frontiers in Climate Change: Negative Emission Technologies
Reviewer – Environmental Science and Technology, Catalysis Today, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Modeling and Software, Frontiers in Climate – Negative Emissions Technologies, Transportation Research: Part A, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems, Transport Reviews, Sustainability, Geosciences
Education
2013 – Ph.D, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Leeds, UK
2009 – M.Sc, (Distinction), IT Management – Sunderland University, UK
2007 – B.Sc, (Hons), Computer science – Sunderland University, UK
Professional Affiliations
MBCS – Member of the British Computer Society
MIET – Member of the Institute for Engineering and Technology
AMEI – Associate Member of the Energy Institute
Volunteering
2003 – National Health Service (NHS), UK
Carer for people with learning disabilities/head injuries during a tall ships race aboard Cutty Sark sailing vessel Hartlepool Renaissance (Latvia to Germany, 2nd leg)
Ben W. Kolosz, PHD 