Dr Negar Vakilifard
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Research Associate
Full contact details
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Room D105
Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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Dr. Negar Vakilifard joined the water engineering group as a research associate with experience of research work in the fields of environmental engineering and physical sciences.
She completed her PhD in water-energy nexus at Murdoch University, Australia, where she developed an optimisation model for strategic and operational decisions of an urban water supply system driven by grid electricity and surplus energy from grid-connected residential rooftop PVs.
In her previous role as a postdoctoral associate, she worked on a negative emissions technology project directed by the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation, UK, where she quantified the effect of the enhanced rock weathering application on croplands on the Earth system’s physical and biogeochemical responses. She also studied the controls of uncertainty in transient climate response to cumulative carbon emissions and zero emissions commitment in negative emissions scenarios.
Currently, she is a research associate on an EPSRC funded project, where she develops a coupled water-energy simulator to investigate the financial and environmental impacts of the nationwide low-carbon energy transition scenarios on water systems, capturing the uncertainty with respect to the future climate, energy mix, and population. She also explores the impact of future energy transition scenarios on long-term planning of water supply infrastructure, using the combination of the simulation and planning model frameworks.
- Research interests
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- Integrated water-energy supply systems (water-energy nexus)
- Optimisation modelling
- Strategic and operational decision making
- Desalination and renewable energies
- Water supply chain
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Impact of negative and positive CO2 emissions on global warming metrics using an ensemble of Earth system model simulations. Biogeosciences, 19(17), 4249-4265.
- Substantial carbon drawdown potential from enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom. Nature Geoscience, 15(5), 382-389.
- The role of enhanced rock weathering deployment with agriculture in limiting future warming and protecting coral reefs. Environmental Research Letters, 16(9).
- An interactive planning model for sustainable urban water and energy supply. Applied Energy, 235, 332-345.
- A two-level decision making approach for optimal integrated urban water and energy management. Energy, 155, 408-425.
- The role of water-energy nexus in optimising water supply systems – Review of techniques and approaches. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 82, 1424-1432.
- Reframing incentives for climate policy action. Nature Energy, 6(12), 1133-1143.
Chapters
- The Effect of Indirect GHG Emissions Costs on the Optimal Water and Energy Supply Systems, Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 1207-1212). Elsevier
- Integrating Real-time Operational Constraints in Planning of Water and Energy Supply, Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 313-318). Elsevier
- Water Security and Clean Energy, Co-benefits of an Integrated Water and Energy Management, Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 1363-1368). Elsevier
Preprints
- Impact of negative and positive CO2 emissions on global warming metrics using an ensemble of Earth system model simulations. Biogeosciences, 19(17), 4249-4265.