RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Passive building design
• Biomimetics 
• Building physics 
• Building Science and Technology
• Building systems
• Building material and tectonics
• Circular economy
• Fabrication
• Climate change adaptation, mitigation & resilience
• Space and extreme architecture

RESEARCH FUNDING, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND TRAVEL GRANTS:

Research funding

• Data-driven bio-fabricated carbon-negative building skin for passive cooling (BioCOOL) 
  Timeframe: 2024-28; Funding authority: University of Technology Sydney; Role: Principal Investigator (PI).
• Decarbonisation of energy systems of South Asian developing economies through regional collaborations 
  Timeframe: 2019-21; Funding amount: £50,000; Funding authority: EPSRC Supergen Energy Network Hub; Role: PI.
• Fast-track vaccine cold-chain assessment and design for mass-scale COVID-19 vaccination in Bangladesh (VaCoBD)
  Timeframe: 2020-22; Funding amount: £631,661; Funding authority: UKRI GCRF/NF Agile response call 2020; Role: Researcher Co-Investigator (RCoI).
•  Dispatchable Air Conditioning (DAC)
  Timeframe: 2020-21; Funding amount: £288,761; Funding authority: Innovate UK (Energy Catalyst 7: Early Stage); Role: RCoI.
• Transforming farming value-chains in sub-Saharan Africa through social and economically inclusive sustainable energy solutions (TRANSFARM)
  Timeframe: 2019-20; Funding amount: £53,224; Funding authority: Scottish Funding Council (SFC). SFC GCRF Institutional Sponsorship 2019-20; Role: Named Researcher (NR).
• Rapid Assessment Methodology for Vaccine Cold-Chain for Mass Immunisation
  Timeframe: 2020; Funding amount: £30,000; Funding authority: Scottish Funding Council (SFC). SFC GCRF Institutional Sponsorship 2020; Role: NR.

Scholarship 

•  2050 Energy and Carbon Emissions Pathways: Modelling the Cost of Decarbonization
  Timeframe: 2014-17; Funding amount: £53,224; Funding authority: Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University and Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC), UK.

Travel grant 

• Research Committee Fund for attending PLEA 2022 in Santiago, Chile. Funding amount: £1262; Funding Authority: School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. 2022.
• Conservation of World Heritage Sites in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis of the Conservation of the Architectural Features According to ‘Venice Charter’. Berger Travel Grant for Students of Architecture, BUET; Funding amount: BDT 37,000 (~ £ 350); Funding authority: Berger Paints Limited, Bangladesh. 2009.