A/ProfNic Surawski
Associate Professor
School of Civil, Environmental & Sociotechnical ENG
- Associate ProfessorSchool of Civil, Environmental & Sociotechnical ENG
FUNDED RESEARCH
Associate Professor Surawski has broad research interests in resolving the transport - air quality - climate - health nexus. Current research activities are centred around:
- New energy vehicles and their fuel consumption, energy consumption and emissions performance
- Impacts of the emerging hydrogen economy on atmospheric chemistry
- Exploring physico-chemical properties of particle emissions from different sources in the environment
- Low cost sensing of urban air quality
A/Prof Surawski is currently recruiting for PhD students with interests broadly consistent with the topics mentioned above. Potential students should study recent journal publications to understand what type of work is completed in the group. Students with a strong interest in using technology to achieve sustainability outcomes, as well as working closely with instrumentation and performing high-quality data analysis and modelling will align well with the sort of research I do. A/Prof Surawski is a category 1 research supervisor at UTS and can principally supervise PhD and Masters projects. Nic has supervised five PhD students to completion at UTS.
FUNDED RESEARCH
- CONTRACT RESEARCHRenewable Diesel Chassis Dynamometer TestingAmpol Australia Petroleum Pty Ltd8 Dec 2025 - 31 May 2026People funded by this grant:
- Lidfors Lindqvist A,
- Surawski N,
- Awadallah M
- TENDERAustralian Heavy Vehicle (Vision 2035) Environmental Scan and Research Gap IdentificationNational Heavy Vehicle Regulator24 Oct 2025 - 4 Jun 2026People funded by this grant:
- Surawski N
- GRANTEstablishing UTS capability in bushfire science for carbon mitigation outcomesUniversity of Technology Sydney3 Apr 2023 - 31 Dec 2023People funded by this grant:
- Surawski N,
- Oliver B
- GRANTDeveloping a robotic arm for space applicationsSmartSat CRC Limited15 Aug 2022 - 18 Feb 2023People funded by this grant:
- Awadallah M,
- Surawski N
- GRANTOPENAIR: OPERATIONAL NETWORK OF AIR QUALITY IMPACT RESOURCES [20293]NSW Department of Planning, Housing, and Infrastructure DPHI (previously NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment)1 Jan 2022 - 30 Apr 2024People funded by this grant:
- Prior J,
- Ruoso L-E,
- Tovey A,
- McIntyre E,
- Cunningham R
- GRANTDepartment of Education13 Dec 2019 - 10 Apr 2020People funded by this grant:
- Surawski N
- CONTRACT RESEARCHOn-board vehicle emission testingDepartment of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation (formerly Queensland Department of Environment and Science)25 Nov 2019 - 24 Jul 2020People funded by this grant:
- Surawski N,
- Walker P,
- Zhang N,
- Zhou JL,
- Awadallah M
- CONTRACT RESEARCHReal Driving Emissions and benchmarking of a hydraulic hybrid vehicle platform for commercial vehiclesHRDS TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD1 Jul 2019 - 28 Feb 2020People funded by this grant:
- Surawski N,
- Walker P,
- Zhang N,
- Awadallah M
- SCHOLARSHIPDesign and development of Green Driving Simulation using transient dynamometerVocational Training Council Hong Kong1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2020People funded by this grant:
- Zhou JL,
- Surawski N
