David Butler is Professor of Water Engineering in the Centre for Water Systems (CWS) at the University of Exeter with 30 years of experience in the water industry. He jointly leads the CWS with over 30 researchers working mainly in the areas of urban water, system optimisation and hydroinformatics. Professor Butler is Principal Investigator on the fellowship and leads the Safe & SuRe project team.

Dr. Raziyeh Farmani is Co-Investigator on the fellowship and a senior lecturer based in the Centre for Water System. She has led Exeter’s contribution to several projects funded by EPSRC, the British Council and the EU and has authored over 50 publications.  She led research in two EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environment consortia. She is also co-investigator in FP7 project (iWIDGET, Improved Water efficiency through ICT technologies for integrated supply-Demand side manaGEmenT) and EPSRC funded project (Local Nexus Netwrok - Building sustainable local nexuses of food, energy and water: from smart engineering to shared prosperity).

Dr. Guangtao Fu is Co-Investigator on the fellowship and a lecturer based in the Centre for Water Systems. His research focuses on conducting fundamental and applied research at the interface between water systems and decision making to tackle water and environmental issues under uncertainty. He has managed or contributed to a number of research projects funded by EPSRC, RAE, and EU Framework Programmes and has over 30 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Sarah Ward is research Co-Investigator and now is an interdisciplinary researcher-practitioner. She is currently working on a portfolio of projects relating to sustainable water management and climate change from a business and community engagement with research perspective. Dr Ward works in different roles/Centres at the University of Exeter. She has led/worked on a number of JISC and EPSRC projects.

Dr Chris Sweetapple is an Associate Research Fellow working for Safe & SuRe project in the Centre for Water Systems. Chris is responsible for developing and applying a quantitative option assessment framework that can be applied across water sub-systems in Safe & SuRe project.

Dr Fanlin Meng is an Associate Research Fellow working for the Safe & SuRe project and project manager for the BRIM project. Fanlin is responsible for developing new resilience assessment frameworks and investigating intervention measures to build resilience into water systems.

Dr Kate Baker is a postdoctoral research fellow working for Safe & SuRe project in the Centre for Water Systems. Kate joined the fellowship in its final year and is responsible for the industrial dissemination strategy and assisting to bring the project to a successful conclusion.

Dr Seyed Sadr is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in water and wastewater engineering at the Centre for Water Systems (CWS), University of Exeter. Dr Sadr joined the CWS in 2014 and worked on a number of projects before joining the Safe & SuRe project in March 2017. In this project, Seyed leads the part that explores the relationship between system resilience and sustainability and looks to link the concept of adaptation pathways as a contribution to both resilience and sustainability.

Kimberly Bryan joined the Safe & SuRe research team in January 2014. With a background in geology and natural resources management, she has spent the past five years working as an environmental consultant in Jamaica. Her PhD research focuses on the socio-technical aspects of the Safe & SuRe paradigm, particularly in relation to water user resilience in an uncertain future. 

Peter Melville-Shreeve- Following a 5 year stint working for an engineering consultancy on flooding and surface water management Peter joined the Centre for Water Systems in 2012 to take on a Research Engineer post. Peter is undertaking a STREAM Engineering Doctorate seeking to assess the true value of some innovations in rainwater harvesting for UK houses. 

Biniam Ashagre has joined the EPSRC funded STREAM industrial doctorate centre for the water sector hosted by the University of Exeter. Biniam is an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Research Engineer under the supervision of Dr Guangtao Fu, Professor David Butler and Mrs Kerry Davidson (Scottish Water). His PhD research focuses on investigating an integrated catchment based approach for urban wastewater systems. 

Konsntantinos Kakoudakis embarked his PhD at the University of Exeter in October 2013 under the supervision of Dr Raziyeh Farmani and Professor David Butler. Konstantinos is a civil engineer with MSc in Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering. He is currently working on the development of water main break prediction models and how climate change affects the performance of the buried pipeline infrastructure systems.

James Webber joined the Safe & SuRe project in 2014 as part of the Doctoral Training Program in Water, Informatics, Science and Engineering (WISE). His current research focuses on infrastructure and community resilience to water hazards, with reference to contrasting case studies across the globe. The overall aim of this research is to review resilience strategies to develop and implement an assessment framework which can be used to prioritise cost beneficial investment in resilience. 

Miguel Headley is a Commonwealth Scholar and a PhD student in the Centre for Water Systems. He commenced his PhD in October 2014 under the supervision of Professor David Butler and Dr Sarah Ward. He is currently working on developing an approach to assess the resilience, reliability and sustainability of water supply systems.  

Sarah Bunney became part of the Safe and SuRe research team in September 2015 following a career in Flood Risk Management with the Environment Agency. Sarah's research focuses on emergency management and planning within the water sector.

Arshan Iqbal joined the STREAM Industrial Doctorate Centre EngD programme in October 2013 as a Research Engineer. His research project, supervised by Dr Guangtao Fu and Prof David Butler, focuses on finding effective use of short range weather forecast information in sewer network operations and is sponsored by Northumbrian Water Limited. He collaborates with the water company to understand the data requirements that would be appropriate for modelling sewer floods and to use this to influence the decision making process when deciding on the short term interventions to take to reduce the risk of sewer flooding.

Kondwani Simukonda has a background of Agricultural Engineering and Water Resources Management. After four years of lecturing in the fields of Farm Structures and Rural Water Supply at the University of Zambia, he joined the Centre for Water Systems in 2015 as a Commonwealth PhD Scholar. His PhD research focusses on the conversion of intermittent water distribution systems to continuous systems.