Research Team

I lead E-COM — Edinburgh Coastal Ocean Modelling Group: researchers and students developing computational approaches to hydro-environmental engineering.

The E-COM website is the maintained source for team profiles and current opportunities.

Current team

Dr Tian Tan

Research Associate
Research in hydro-environmental modelling for tidal-stream energy.

Connor Jordan

PhD Student & Industry Engagement Lead
E-COM member since October 2022
Research on tidal-array design and environmental interactions.

Emīls Brazovskis

PhD Researcher
E-COM member since October 2023
Research in uncertainty quantification in coastal-ocean models.

Bryn Townley

Engineer, Frazer Nash
E-COM member since September 2022
Engineering and computational fluid dynamics.

Michalis Constantas

PhD Researcher
E-COM member since September 2025
Research on array optimisation.

Alexandra Dukic

PhD Researcher
E-COM member since September 2026
Research on downscaling of regional ocean models.

Alumni

Our alumni have contributed to research across marine renewable energy, environmental fluid mechanics and computational engineering.

  • Dr N. Chien — Postdoctoral researcher in Ocean Digital Twins, University of Edinburgh (2023–2025).

  • Dr Y. Chen — Postdoctoral researcher in Tidal Stream Energy, University of Edinburgh (2024–2025).

  • Dr C. Old — Postdoctoral researcher in Marine Energy, University of Edinburgh (2022–2023).

  • Dr P. Hudson — PhD Researcher, University of Edinburgh (2020–2025).

  • Dr K. Pappas — PhD Researcher, University of Edinburgh (2021–2025).

  • Dr M. Patel — DPhil Researcher, University of Oxford (2020–2024).

  • Dr A. Fragkou — PhD Researcher, University of Edinburgh (2019–2023).

  • Dr L. Mackie — PhD Researcher, Imperial College London (2018–2021).

Join E-COM

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and visiting researchers. See the opportunities page or E-COM opportunities for current guidance.