UK - Keiron Roberts

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Lecturer in Sustainability and the Built Environment, University of Portsmouth Profile Articles Activity

Keiron Roberts is a lecturer in sustainability and built environment within the School of Civil Engineering and Surveying at the University of Portsmouth.

He works within the Research England funded GreenTech South Innovation hub. He is researching disruptive markets and policies to enable the uptake of new renewables, energy storage and market pricing to improve the islands energy autonomy as part of the Innovate UK funded Isle of Wight Energy Autonomous Community project. He is currently coordinating the UNEP IRP marine plastic litter think piece for delivery at the upcoming G20 events.

Keiron is a visiting research fellow at the University of Southampton where he previously held the position of research fellow. He is contributing to two research projects investigating the potential application of the circular economy model within the operations of a large water and wastewater company (Southern Water, ZeroWIN), and part of the continued development of the solid waste infrastructure model of GB within the MISTRAL project (EPSRC funded), with outputs influencing the UK's waste management infrastructure. Prior to his postdoctoral work he completed a PhD funded by EPSRC and the EU FP7 All Gas project, investigating the use of marine micro algae for biogas production.

Keiron is a researcher with expertise in wastewater, solid waste and energy systems and resource management and technologies, with a particular focus on sustainability and the circular economy.

• 2021–present Lecturer, University of Portsmouth
• 2018–2021 Research fellow, University of Portsmouth
• 2016–2018 Research fellow, University of Southampton
• 2016–2016 Research fellow, Open University

• 2016 University of Southampton, PGCE Secondary and Tertiary Physics
• 2015 University of Southampton, PhD Civil Engineering
• 2011 University of Southampton, MSci Oceanography

• 2020 Demand Response Model Development for Smart Households Using Time of Use Tariffs and Optimal Control—The Isle of Wight Energy Autonomous Community Case Study,
• 2019 Semi-continuous anaerobic digestion of the marine micro-algal species I. galbana and D. salina grown under low and high sulphate conditions,
• 2018 Applying circular economy thinking to industry by integrating education & research activities,
• 2018 SWIMS: A dynamic life cycle-based optimisation and decision support tool for solid waste management,
• 2016 Quantification of methane losses from the acclimatisation of anaerobic digestion to marine salt concentrations,
• 2016 Comparative testing of energy yields from micro-algal biomass cultures processed via anaerobic digestion,
• 2015 Anaerobic Digestion of Marine Microalgae, Thesis
• 2013 Dissolved trace metals (Ni, Zn, Co, Cd, Pb, Al, and Mn) around the Crozet Islands, Southern Ocean,

• 2019 Smart Energy Systems - Isle of Wight Energy Autonomous Community Role: Primary researcher , determining the economic feasibility of novel energy systems and distribution methods. Funding Source: Innovate UK
• 2019 Newton Fund/ CEFAS travel grant Role: Travel grant to engage with researchers in Brazil Funding Source: Newton Fund
• 2019 Eliminating marine plastic litter Role: Primary researcher to inform the G20 on policies to reduce MPL Funding Source: Government of Japan
• 2016 MISTRAL Role: Researcher developing the Solid Waste Infrastructure Model (SWIMS) for the ITRC MISTRAL project Funding Source: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
• 2015 Institute of physics scholarship Role: Funding Source: Institute of Physics
• 2014 FP7 All gas project Role: Knowledge exchange Funding Source: European Commission

MSci, PGCE, PhD

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