Dr Nikhilkumar Shah is a Lecturer in Energy and Building Services at Centre for Sustainable Technologies in School of the Built Environment. Dr Shah holds B.Eng (Mechanical) from Gujarat University, India and M.Sc. (Energy System) from FH-Aachen, Germany.

He received PhD from Ulster University in 2015. He has ten years of research experience in the energy field. His research interest includes heat pump, thermal and electrical energy storage, energy efficiency, waste heat recovery, engine testing, demand side management and biofuels.

Dr Shah is an active participant of IEA Annexes on Industrial and domestic hot water heat pump. Dr Shah has secured research collaboration funding for "Diesel engine emission and performance testing with biofuel with Nano-particles" with IIT Guwahati, India as a co-applicant from UKIERI. He has also worked in the field of engine testing, fuel cell material and solar thermal system in the past. 

Jayanta Mondol is a Professor of Solar Energy Technologies and the  Research Director at the Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment since 2019. He successfully led the submission for the Architecture Built Environment and Planning (UoA13) category in the REF2021 evaluation. Prior to his current role, he served as the Course Director for the BEng (Hons) Architectural Engineering and BEng (Hons) Energy and Building Services Engineering programs at Ulster University, where he played an instrumental role in the development of the Architectural Engineering program.

He holds a BSc (Hons) and MSc in Physics from Visva-Bharati University, India, and an MTech in Energy Science and Technology from Jadavpur University, India. He completed his PhD at Ulster University in 2004. Prior to joining the academic position in 2008, he served as an RCUK Academic Research Fellow.

He is an esteemed member of several professional organisations including the Energy Institute, the Institute of Physics, and the International Solar Energy Society. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

With over 23 years of research experience, he has excelled in various fields including solar energy technologies, energy efficiency in buildings, multifunctional building facades, off-grid solar systems, and energy system modelling. He has successfully coordinated numerous multidisciplinary research projects, fostering collaborations with industry partners, academic institutions, and national and local stakeholders. His research has attracted extensive research funding from prestigious funding bodies such as EPSRC, Invest Northern Ireland, Royal Society, UK India Education and Research Initiative, Innovate UK, InterTradeIreland, and the EU. Notably, he served as the Project Manager and Principal Investigator for projects like 'SolaFin2Go' and 'SolaNetwork,' which were funded by EPSRC and Innovate UK.

Jayanta has served as the Work Group leader for the EU COST Action project (TU1205) and a working group member for the Bio-Energy action plan in Northern Ireland. He is an active member of the Climate Emergency Committee for The Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RUSA). He is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Renewable Energy, Sustainable Buildings Journal, and Journal of Solar Energy Research Updates. He has also contributed as a Guest Editor for several special issues of esteemed journals. Furthermore, he is recognised as a technical and scientific committee member for various international conferences. His expertise is valued as a regular reviewer for more than 30 international journals. He has supervised 10 PhD.

Jayanta has published over 110 research papers in reputable peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and edited book chapters. Additionally, he has contributed to over 20 research reports for industrial-led research projects. His outstanding work has been recognised with awards at international conferences, such as WREC and EUROSUN. Moreover, the International Solar Energy Society honoured him for the 'Best Full-Length Paper published in Solar Energy Journal'.

Aggelos Zacharopoulos is the Course Director of the BSc (Hons) in Energy at Ulster University and a core member of the Built Environment Research Institute. He works within the Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST) with research expertise on solar thermal and PV systems (including concentrating), building integration of renewable energy technologies, multifunctional façade glazing systems and energy efficiency in industrial production processes. He has extensive experience in experimental characterisation under the large scale CST solar simulator.Outside Ulster University, Aggelos is leading a working group of academics and researchers (EU COST Action TU1205) which aims to develop innovative building integrated solar thermal systems. He has supervised successful PhD projects in Ulster University and has examined PhD projects in other UK/international universities. He is a member of the editorial board of the Renewable Energy journal and has authored over 35 publications in peer reviewed journals, book contributions and conference proceedings.Aggelos has a BSc (Hons) in Physics from the University of Patras (Greece). He was awarded his PhD in Design, Modelling and Experimental Characterisation of Line-axis Concentrators for Solar Thermal and PV Applications, by the Ulster University in 2001. In 2014 he became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

Neil J Hewitt was appointed Professor of Energy in 2008 and is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Technologies from 2008 until present. He is a Chartered Physicist and Chartered Engineer and is a member of the Institute of Physics, Institute of Refrigeration and the Energy Institute.Professor Hewitt has initiated and worked on numerous significant European and UK Research Council funded research projects that have engaged academia, public and private bodies.Professor Hewitt is an acknowledged expert in the field of heat pumps, both in their development and in their end-use, especially with energy storage in the emerging sector of demand side management.  He has over 100 publications and is a regular invited conference speaker both nationally and abroad.Professor Hewitt, is the UK representative of the International Institute of Refrigeration Commission B2 Refrigerating Machinery and is also a UK member of IEA Heat Pumping Technologies Annexes.

Dr. Supriya's research interests are growth and application of Carbon based nanomaterials, CVD (chemical vapor deposition) and atmospheric plasma synthesis of nanomaterials, multifunctional nanomaterials, bio-inspired nanomaterials, bio-mimicking systems, novel energy storage devices and quantum dot based third generation solar cells.

He completed his PhD from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India in 2004.  During his PhD degree in Materials Science in India, he got several best poster awards in national and international conferences of nanomaterials. He also received National Renewable Energy Fellowship for progressing research work in India.

His research achievements have been highlighted in Nature Nanotechnology News and Japan Newspaper. He is the primary inventor of a Patent for the development of the process for producing carbon nanostructure and gas for carbon nanostructure production. He has published more than 40 research papers in top scientific journal of high impact factors. Many of his published journal papers have very high citations (more than 100), with a total citation of 1368 and i-10 index of 33 till the end of 2015.

He was awarded with NEDO fellowship of Japan in 2004 and ICTP fellowship of Italy in 2005. He was invited (2007) as a speaker at University of Tokyo, Japan for presenting his research in Carbon nanotube. He has been elected as distinguished referee for the Journals; Applied Physics Letter and Journal of Applied Physics, www.aip.org since 2007.