Simon Rees is a Senior Research Fellow in the IESD and has special responsibility for co-ordination of the MSc in Energy and Sustainable Building Design.
Following the Award of a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Loughborough University in 1987 he joined the consulting engineering firm Ove Arup and Partners as a Mechanical Building Services Engineer. In 1994 he began research into Displacement Ventilation and Chilled Ceiling systems in the Civil and Building Engineering department of Loughborough University resulting in the award of a PhD in 1998. He has since spent more than five years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University in the USA. In this capacity he undertook research into ground source heat pump systems and numerical simulation of thermal systems.
Simon's interests include building and environmental heat transfer, building air flow, load calculation and building energy and plant simulation. He has written over 20 publications and has been awarded CIBSE's Napier-Shaw Bronze Medal (2000) and ASHRAE's 'Best Technical Paper' award (2002) for papers he has published.
He joined IESD in 2004 where he has continued his research in low energy systems, building heat transfer, and energy simulation. He has responsibility for coordinating the MSc course in Energy and Sustainable Building Design, and also teaches on the MSc in Climate Change and Sustainable Development. |
Dr Simon Rees