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Dr Tristan Kershaw

Research Fellow

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Tristan is a Research Fellow at the Centre. His primary research interests are associated with the investigation of the effects of climate change on the built environment, adapting building design and increasing resilience of the built environment to climatic change. Current research focuses on thermal modelling of different buildings and designing adaptation strategies looking at impacts on energy usage, comfort levels and human health under different projections of climate change. Previous research as part of the PROMETHEUS project involved the creation of probabilistic future weather years using the outputs of UKCP09, with the aim of providing climate change adaptation design decisions for use in the building industry. Tristan also delivers several CPD courses to industry on the topics of sustainable building design and climate change adaptation.

Tristan's PhD looked at low temperature contact-less magnetometry of 2-dimensional electron systems, the measurement of the decay rate of quasi-dissipationless currents in the quantum Hall regime and an investigation into the 2D-like properties of bulk Graphite and the presence of quasi-relativistic Dirac fermions.

Key Skills

  • Thermal modelling of buildings using various simulation packages.
  • Assessing the impacts of climate change on buildings and the adaptation of designs.
  • An understanding of how the internal environment impacts on human comfort, health and productivity
  • The use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to study the internal environment.
  • Knowledge of the creation and use of probabilistic climate change projections for use by the buildings industry.
  • The use of ray-tracing software to estimate lighting conditions within buildings.

Responsibilities

  • Experimental tutor for third year BSc Physics laboratory
  • Lecturer for the "Energy and the Environment" module PHY3067
  • Member of the College "greening team".
  • Member of the Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing Climate (ARCC) Coordination Network
  • Part of the "Climate Change and Sustainable Futures" (CCSF) science theme.