Dr Eugene Mohareb

Email:
e.mohareb@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
01183788204
Job title:
Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Systems

Responsibilities:

Research Group Lead – Energy & Environmental Engineering
Lecturer

Office

138

Building location

Chancellor's Building

Areas of interest

Life cycle sustainability assessment
Domestic retrofit adoption
Sustainability metrics of food systems

Teaching

Convenorship:

CE2STA Statistical Analysis
CE3PDR Design Project for MEng
CE3SBE Sustainable Built Environments
CEM340 Carbon Management & Life Cycle Assessment

Contributing to:

CE1CCS Construction Science
CEM310 Infrastructure Development and Urban Sustainability
CEM350 Urban Energy Systems & Energy & the Environment
CEM160 Renewable Energy Systems
CEM16B Renewable Energy Systems B
FB3SFS Sustainable Food Systems
FBMMPD Sustainable Food Manufacturing and Process Design

Research centres and groups

Urban Living
Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Group
Sustainable & Equitable Resource Consumption

Research projects

FoodSEqual (Multi-council)

HiFi Bread (Multi-council)

Sustainability & Resilience Assessments of Long-Term Biobased Transitions of Food Systems (BBSRC)

Background

My work at the University of Reading focuses on research and teaching related to urban sustainability through resource efficiency and global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation. I lead the Sustainable & Equitable Resource Consumption (SERC) group, with research topics on applications of life cycle thinking in energy and food systems. Focus areas include the use of urban metabolism for GHG inventorying, charting a path for food system GHG mitigation, and the adoption of low-carbon technologies, especially in domestic retrofits.

Our group also collaborates with non-academic partners to apply quantitative sustainability analysis. One example is a recent project where we collaborated with Toast Brewing to assess the life cycle impacts of using surplus bread within brewing processes, towards an estimation of the net carbon benefits.

Ultimately, our research uses quantitative sustainability assessments of the built environment and food systems to contribute to the evidence base towards low-carbon societies.