With an interest in counterintuitive and innovative solutions for important problems, I research topics related to sustainable housing and cities, system dynamics modelling, the change, and decision making. Multiple subject areas enhanced my interest in discerning interdisciplinary approaches to address problems. In interdisciplinary research I use participative methods and my main research methods are system dynamics modelling, qualitative and case study research. I have a strong interest in processes of change, interactions among people and the construction of an environment sustainable in every sense, allowing for resilient development.

In the past years, I have completed work on Integrated Decision-Making about Housing, Energy and Wellbeing (HEW), on Housing in Nairobi's Informal Settlements(HINIS), on a Web-Integrated Interactive Simulation Environment (HEW-WISE),on the Total Performance of Low-Carbon Buildings in China and the UK (TOP) and an exciting project with the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy on developing a systems perspective of home owner decision-making about energy efficiency in the wider policy and industrial context.

Currently, I am working on several research grants: I lead the work package on City Engagement in the Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH) project. This work package includes collaborators across four continents. In addition, as Co-Investigator I lead on participatory system dynamics work in the Community Water Management for a Liveable London (CAMELLIA) project and am working on the project Virtual Decision Rooms for Water Neutral Urban Planning (VENTURA) project. In addition, I lead two work packages focused on policy and/or knowledge transfer: In the Co-creating Systems Thinking in Policy on Sustainability (CoSTiPoS) project, we work with the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Government Office for Science on supporting a move to systems thinking in government and in a knowledge exchange project we work with the social consultancy 4OC and members of a local authority on a systems perspective of their service delivery. I am also a Co-Investigator on a prestigious EPSRC Platform Grant on Built Environment Systems Thinking that aims at developing a systems perspective across the Bartlett School for Environment, Energy & Resources.

My research is participatory, and typically inter- or transdisciplinary, involving diverse stakeholder groups to better understand the wide ranging additional impacts that policies have on health, society and the environment.