Biography
Professor Bahaj is Professor of Sustainable Energy at the University of Southampton. He is the head of the Energy and Coasts Division and the Sustainable Energy Research Group (SERG) within the highly rated School of Civil Engineering and the Environment (UK RAE in 2008). The aims of the Group are to promote and execute fundamental and applied research and pre-industrial development in the areas of energy sources and technologies, and energy efficiency. Prof Bahaj’s work encompasses the study of urban energy systems (including energy efficiency, micro wind and photovoltaics), the built environment and climate change, and ocean energy conversion technologies.
He has authored/co-authored more than 200 publications and leads various projects on various aspects of these areas. He is also on the Editorial Boards of Renewable Energy and the UK’s Institute of Civil Engineering journal Energy. Prof Bahaj is the co-ordinator of the EPSRC Eco-region research networks on China and was the Principle Investigator on the EPSRC programme “Innovation in Design, Construction & Operation of Buildings for People”.
Prof Bahaj is the Chair of the Technical Committees of the World Renewable Energy Congress (Glasgow July 2008 and Abu Dhabi September 2010), a member of the management and the technical committees of the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conferences (Porto 2007, Portugal, and Uppsala September 2009, Sweden). He is a member of the BSI Committee GEL/82 on PV Energy Systems and from 2001 to 2007 was a member of the BERR Technology Programmes Panels on Water and Solar Energy.
