Professor AbuBakr Bahaj

AbuBakr S Bahaj is Professor of Sustainable Energy at the University of Southampton and Head of the Sustainable Energy Research Group (SERG). The aims of the Group are to promote and execute fundamental, applied research and pre-industrial development in the areas of renewables and urban energy studies. SERG resides in the 5* top rated (UK Research Assessment Exercise in 2001) School of Civil Engineering and the Environment at The University of Southampton.

Prof Bahaj is an electrical engineering graduate and has extensive experience in design, construction, operation and monitoring of large-scale experiments and field studies related to renewable energy and energy in buildings. His main research interests encompass urban energy studies (including energy efficiency, microgeneration technologies such as wind and photovoltaics) and marine energy conversion technologies. He is author/co-author of more than 160 publications and leads various major projects on urban energy and marine renewables. He is also an Associate Editor of Renewable Energy, member of the Editorial Panel of the Institution of Civil Engineering journal Energy and was the editor of the Special Issue of Renewable Energy dealing with Marine Energy (Nov 2005). He is a member of the British Standards Institute (BSI) Committee GEL/82 on PV Energy Systems and sits on various UK Government assessment panels related to renewable energy.