CDT WIRe students actively contribute to research on water infrastructure and resilience. See the range of publications and conference presentations delivered by our PhD researchers below. More information about our students' research activities can be found here.
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CDT WIRe Research Publications
CDT WIRe Conference Presentations
Our students receive funding from EPSRC and their end-use partners that allows them to travel to conferences internationally and share their work with researchers and industry professionals globally.
| Student | Conference | Title | Format | Date | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Donati | Future of WQ mini-conference | Somatic coliphage prevalence in Scotland | Talk | March 2026 | |
| Roman Tijsseling | IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhibition | Low-Cost Method For Comparing Turbidity Data To Guide Drinking Water Distribution System Interventions | Talk | December 2025 | |
| Siqi Xu | European Biosolids & Bioresources Conference | Linking sewage sludge macromolecular contents to pyrolysis output characteristics for novel insights | Talk | November 2025 | |
| Muna Hassan | European Biosolids & Bioresources Conference | Supressing Methane Emissions from Sewage Sludge Digestate | Talk, Poster | November 2025 | |
| Siqi Xu | The 19th IWA Conference on Sludge Management | Rethinking sewage sludge valorisation options and pathways via thermochemical output upgrading: a product-oriented analysis | Talk | October 2025 | |
| Lydia Mahan | University of Sheffield Sustainability Symposium 2025 | Quantifying the Wider Benefits of Sustainable Drainage Systems | Poster | October 2025 | |
| Raman Suri | 11th IWA Membrane Technology Conference & Exhibition for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse | Ceramic nanofiltration: Creating a resilient future for drinking water supply | Talk | September 2025 | |
| Gareth Cotton | 13th Urban Drainage Modelling Conference | Real-Time Date Driven Overflow Control in Urban Drainage Networks to Mitigate Environmental Harm in Riverine Systems | Poster | September 2025 | |
| Vladislav Dmitrievich Dukhovskoy | 13th Urban Drainage Modelling Conference | Challenges in Modelling Urban Catchments: Integrating Surface Runoff and CSO Response | Poster | September 2025 | |
| Mohammad Reza Shekofteh | 21st International Computing & Control in the Water Industry Conference | Strategic Placement of Acoustic Sensors in Drinking Water Distribution Systems | Talk, Paper | September 2025 | |
| Gareth Cotton | 21st International Computing & Control in the Water Industry Conference | Evaluating Rule Based Control for Environmental Impacts in Receiving Waters | Talk, Paper | September 2025 | |
| Emily Jane Blackburn | 21st International Computing & Control in the Water Industry Conference | Statistical Analysis of PFAS and Catchment Characteristics in the UK | Talk, Paper | September 2025 | |
| Roman Tijsseling | 21st International Computing & Control in the Water Industry Conference | Enhancing Drinking Water Distribution System Monitoring: Spatial and Temporal Turbidity Tracking of a Network Asset Pre and Post Intervention | Talk, Paper | September 2025 | |
| Lucie Bertolaso | Water Disinfection, Byproducts and Health Gordon Research Seminar and Conference 2025 | Ozonation of propyzamide and adsorption of generated transformation products to activated carbon | Poster | July 2025 | |
| Ali Leonard | The 2nd International Sociohydrology Conference | The Complexity of Clarity: Balancing Granularity and Trust in Modelling for Water Resources Planning in England | Talk | July 2025 | |
| Rachael Giles | EBIC Early Career Researcher Conference | Identifying opportunities for biological coagulant recovery in drinking water and wastewater treatment processes | Poster | July 2025 | |
| André Araujo Frota | International Interdisciplinary Conference on Land Use and Water Quality | Catchments as the first stage of treatment | Poster | June 2025 | |
| Sreelakshmi Babu | The 22nd Health Related Water Microbiology Conference | Hospital and Community Drivers of Antimicrobial Resistance in Urban Wastewater System | Talk | June 2025 | |
| Jennifer Hollands | The 18th Conference of the UK Water Network | Disrupting Disruptions: Drinking Water Resilience to Chemical Supply Shortage | Talk | June 2025 | |
| Zachary Thompson | 11th Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering Conference | Linking activated sludge emissions to process and microbial factors | Poster | June 2025 | |
| Anne Kamau | Royal Society of Chemistry #EnvChem2025 - Chemistry of The Whole Environment | Influence of source water characteristics on formation of emerging nitrogenous disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water | Poster | June 2025 | |
| Emily Jane Blackburn | Environmental Biotechnology Innovation Centre workshop: Environmental biotechnology for the management of PFAS and beyond | Statistical analysis of PFAS and catchment characteristics in the UK | Talk | June 2025 | |
| Kaeli Brazier | IAHR SimHydro 2025 | Experimental study of the transport and deposition of sewer sediments from pipe systems to surface flows via manholes during urban flooding events | Talk | June 2025 | |
| Alan Smalley | IAHR SimHydro 2025 | Implementing a machine learning approach for predicting Cryptosporidium river concentrations to assist operational water resource decisions on the River Thames | Talk | June 2025 | |
| Rachael Giles | IWA Resource Recovery Conference | Biological coagulant recovery: a novel method to increase resilience and sustainability in drinking water and wastewater treatment processes | Poster | May 2025 | |
| Siqi Xu | IWA Resource Recovery Conference | Exploring the effect of variability in sewage sludge characterisation on pyrolysis outputs | Poster | May 2025 | |
| Mark Powders | IWA Resource Recovery Conference | Low-energy thermal stripping to recover quality ammonia for the water sector | Talk | May 2025 | |
| Pinelopi Savvidou | SETAC Europe 35th Annual Meeting | Predicting the Fate of 40 Emerging Contaminants: A Case Study of SimpleTreat and TOXCHEM | Talk | May 2025 | |
| Matthew Pitt | EGU25 | Understanding seasonal variability in shrink-swell clay soils and the impact on parameterisation of soil-water mass transfer models | Poster | May 2025 | |
| Siqi Xu | UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre Research Community Spring Conference 2025 | Feasibility of pyrolysis using different sludges | Poster | March 2025 | |
| Sreelakshmi Babu | 2025 SAgE PGR Conference | The Future of Wastewater-based Epidemiology | Talk | January 2025 | |
| Ana Amezaga-Kutija | 2025 SAgE PGR Conference | Proactive management of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in Drinking Water Catchments | Talk | January 2025 | Best Presentation |
| Siqi Xu | European Biosolids & Bioresources Conference & Exhibition | Feasibility of pyrolysis using different sludges | Poster | November 2024 | Student and Early Career Professionals' Poster Prize |
| Raman Suri | Anglian Water Innovation Student Summit | Ceramic nanofiltration for more resilient drinking water production | Talk | November 2024 | |
| Samuel Yeboah Nyarko | Anglian Water Innovation Student Summit | The role of organic matter on water treatability to secure drinking water supplies | Talk | November 2024 | |
| Mark Powders | Anglian Water Innovation Student Summit | Ammonia to energy as a key decarbonisation strategy for the water sector | Talk | November 2024 | |
| Blessing Mobolaji | Anglian Water Innovation Student Summit | Nitrous oxide management in a membrane aerated bioreactor | Talk | November 2024 | |
| André Araujo Frota | UKWIR 5th Annual Conference | Catchments as the first stage of treatment | Poster | October 2024 | |
| Isabel Carneiro Cardoso Da Silva | UKWIR 5th Annual Conference | Achieving biologically stable / low assimilable organic carbon (AOC) water in the UK | Poster | October 2024 | |
| Anne Kamau | UKWIR 5th Annual Conference | Understanding the role of nitrogen in the formation of nitrogenous disinfection by-products in drinking water treatment systems | Poster | October 2024 | |
| Polly Grundy | UKWIR 5th Annual Conference | Using model compounds to enhance understanding of brominated disinfection by-product formation | Poster | October 2024 | |
| Anne Kamau | Disinfection and Disinfection By-Products Conference 2024 (DDBP24) | Characterization of organic nitrogen precursors and investigation of formation of nitrogenous disinfection by-products in drinking water | Talk | October 2024 | |
| Polly Grundy | Disinfection and Disinfection By-Products Conference 2024 (DDBP24) | Investigating the Key Role of Aliphatic Carbonyls in the Formation of Brominated Haloacetic Acids | Talk | October 2024 | |
| Ali Leonard | International Water Association World Water Congress and Exhibition | Collaborative Multi-scale Water Resources Planning In England And Wales | Poster | August 2024 | |
| Matthew MacRorie | International Water Association World Water Congress and Exhibition | Harnessing Smart Meters To Investigate Household Water Usage Under Intermittent Water Supply (IWS) | Talk | August 2024 | |
| Ravina Bains | International Water Association World Water Congress and Exhibition | Water Quality For Electrolysis: Utilizing Wastewater Final Effluent As A Feedwater Source | Poster | August 2024 | |
| Polly Grundy | International Water Association World Water Congress and Exhibition | Understanding The Chemistry Of Brominated Disinfection By-Product Formation | Poster | August 2024 | Best Poster Prize |
| Edward John | International Water Association World Water Congress and Exhibition | Experimental observations of the initial leaks formed in pitted grey cast iron water pipes due to cyclic water pressure fatigue loading | Talk | August 2024 | |
| Charlie Whitelegg | The 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis & Computing and Control for the Water Industry (WDSA/CCWI 2024) | Characterizing the Impact of Hydrants on Transients | Talk, Paper | July 2024 | |
| Killian Gleeson | The 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis & Computing and Control for the Water Industry (WDSA/CCWI 2024) | A Data-Driven Analysis for Understanding and Risk Estimation of Discolouration in Drinking Water Distribution Systems | Paper | July 2024 | |
| Reinar Lokk | The 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis & Computing and Control for the Water Industry (WDSA/CCWI 2024) | Identifying Hydraulic Conditions for Discolouration Material Accumulation | Talk, Paper | July 2024 | |
| Isabel Carneiro Cardoso da Silva | The 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis & Computing and Control for the Water Industry (WDSA/CCWI 2024) | Regrowth of Microorganisms from Treatment to Tap in Operational Drinking Water Supply Networks | Talk, Paper | July 2024 | |
| Matthew MacRorie | The 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis & Computing and Control for the Water Industry (WDSA/CCWI 2024) | Modelling Consumer Demand in Intermittent Water Supply (IWS) Networks: Evidence from Nepal | Talk, Paper | July 2024 | |
| Edward John | The 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis & Computing and Control for the Water Industry (WDSA/CCWI 2024) | Experimental Investigation of the Fatigue Strength and Leakage Failure Mode of Corroded Cast Iron Water Pipes | Talk, Paper | July 2024 | |
| Jade Rogers | The 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis & Computing and Control for the Water Industry (WDSA/CCWI 2024) | The Impacts of Chlorine and Chloramine on Biofilms and Discolouration in Operational Drinking Water Distribution Systems | Talk, Paper | July 2024 | |
| Edward John | 9th Engineering Integrity Society International Conference on Durability & Fatigue (Fatigue 2024) | Experimental validation of a model for predicting the bending fatigue strength of corroded grey cast iron water pipes | Talk, Paper | June 2024 | |
| Philippa Mohan | International Conference on Urban Drainage | Assessment of Environmental Harm from wet weather spills based on continuous water quality monitoring | Talk | June 2024 | |
| Kaeli Brazier | International Conference on Urban Drainage | Influence of grate geometry on hydraulic energy losses in a surcharging manhole under flood conditions | Talk | June 2024 | |
| Ishara Rakith Perera | 15th International Conference on Hydroinformatics | Current Practices; Gaps and Opportunities in Data Utilization in Water Utility Industry | Talk, Paper | May 2024 | |
| Daniel Ruth | IWA 8th Specialist Conference on Natural Organic Matter (NOM 8) | NOM compositional impacts on coagulant demand and water treatability | Talk | December 2023 | |
| Samuel Yeboah Nyarko | IWA 8th Specialist Conference on Natural Organic Matter (NOM 8) | Natural Organic Matter Removal by Coagulation and Ion-exchange in Lowland Surface Water Treatment: Impact on Treatment and Operational Benefits | Talk | December 2023 | |
| Anne Kamau | IWA 8th Specialist Conference on Natural Organic Matter (NOM 8) | Formation of nitrogenous disinfection by-products in drinking water | Poster | December 2023 | |
| Philippa Mohan | CIWEM Urban Drainage Group | A Risk-based Tool That Accounts for Uncertainty in Water Quality Studies | Talk | December 2023 | |
| Jade Rogers | Water Quality Technology Conference & Exposition | Material and Biofilm Accumulation in Drinking Water Distribution Systems | Talk | November 2023 | |
| Ravina Bains | UKWIR 4th Annual Conference | The Role of Hydrogen for a Resilient and Low Emissions UK Water Sector | Poster | November 2023 | |
| Anna Laino | UKWIR 4th Annual Conference | Non-Linear analysis of a Water Resource Recovery Facility | Poster | November 2023 | |
| Polly Grundy | UKWIR 4th Annual Conference | Using Model Compounds to Enhance Understanding of Brominated Disinfection By-Product Formation | Poster | November 2023 | |
| Ali Leonard | UKWIR 4th Annual Conference | Collaborative Multi-scale Water Resources Planning In England And Wales | Poster | November 2023 | |
| Sreelakshmi Babu | The International Conference: Towards a Global Wastewater Surveillance System for Public Health | Developing biomarkers for tracking antimicrobial resistance in wastewater | Poster | November 2023 | |
| Ravina Bains | 9th IWA-ASPIRE | Investigating the Impacts of Wastewater Final Effluent on Electrolysis for Hydrogen Production | Talk | October 2023 | |
| Anna Laino | 11th IWA Symposium on Modelling and Integrated Assessment | Non-Linear analysis of a Water Resource Recovery Facility | Poster | September 2023 | |
| Edward John | 19th International Computing and Control for the Water Industry Conference | Impact of experimentally determined grey cast iron pipe fatigue strength variation on years-to-leakage predictions | Talk | September 2023 | |
| Matthew MacRorie | 19th International Computing and Control for the Water Industry Conference | Consumer Demand in Intermittent Water Supply: A Case Study of Lahan, Nepal | Talk | September 2023 | |
| Isabel Carneiro Cardoso da Silva | 19th International Computing and Control for the Water Industry Conference | Use of historic real-world flow cytometry data to monitor biological stability in drinking water supply systems | Talk | September 2023 | |
| Killian Gleeson | 19th International Computing and Control for the Water Industry Conference | Root-cause Analysis of Discolouration Events in Drinking Water Distribution Systems using Time Series Data | Talk | September 2023 | |
| Harry Nicklin | SWIG Sensing in Water 2023 | Chomping into the attitude-behaviour gap: using smart sensors and goal setting to influence shower behaviour | Talk | September 2023 | |
| Harry Nicklin | 11th IWA Efficient Urban Water Management Conference 2023 | Influencing shower behaviour using real time feedback and goal-based messaging | Talk | September 2023 | |
| Alan Smalley | 40th International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) Conference | Understanding Cryptosporidium trends in a large UK catchment | Talk | August 2023 | |
| Anna Christy | 11th International Conference on Industrial Ecology | Avoiding turmoil. Achieving targets. Attempting NetZero: Perspectives from the Water Sector | Talk | July 2023 | |
| Ali Leonard | 12th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment (EWRA 2023) | Water resources in England & Wales: the rise again of national planning | Talk | June 2023 | |
| Christos Iliadis | 12th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment (EWRA 2023) | Extreme rainfall and 2D flood modelling in urban catchments to assess flood exposure of buildings. A case study in Thessaloniki city, Greece | Talk | June 2023 | |
| Polly Grundy | RSC Analytical Research Forum 2023 | Introduction of a Simple and Effective Analytical Method for Haloacetic Acids in Drinking Water by Reverse Phase LC-MS/MS | Poster | June 2023 | |
| Polly Grundy | 16th Annual Conference of the UK Water Network | Investigating the Chemistry of Brominated Disinfection By-Product Formation | Talk | June 2023 | |
| Charlie Whitelegg | 16th Annual Conference of the UK Water Network | Calibration of viscoelastic parameters for transient modelling in pipelines with unknown faults | Talk | June 2023 | |
| Lucie Bertolaso | 16th Annual Conference of the UK Water Network | Impact of ozone and hydroxyl radicals on the adsorbability of micropollutants and natural organic matter | Talk | June 2023 | |
| Edward John | 17th International Conference on Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment and 2023 International Symposium on Structural Integrity (ESIA17–ISSI2023) | Plain and notch fatigue strength of water pipe grey cast iron | Talk | May 2023 | |
| Killian Gleeson | WWT Smart Water | Leveraging Water Quality Data to Support Intelligent Decision Making | Talk | March 2023 | |
| Harry Nicklin | Waterwise Conference 2023 – Running out of water – water efficiency’s key role in affordability, growth and resilience | Using smart sensors with automatic timers to influence shower behaviour | Talk | March 2023 | |
| Anna Laino | IWA Water Resource Recovery Modelling Seminar | Quantification of wastewater resilience metrics | Poster | January 2023 | |
| Daniel Ruth | Water Quality Technology Conference & Exposition | Monitoring the Right Parameters for the Enhanced Treatment of Natural Organic Matter Laden Water Sources | Talk | November 2022 | |
| Pinelopi Savvidou | 10th Conference of the UK Wastewater Network | Modelling the Fate of Micropollutants during Wastewater Treatment: Status and Challenges | November 2022 | ||
| Pinelopi Savvidou | Early Career People in Water Conference 2022 | Modelling the fate of micropollutants during wastewater treatment | Poster | November 2022 | Best Poster |
| Harry Nicklin | Early Career People in Water Conference 2022 | Understanding domestic water use behaviour using smart sensor-based behavioural interventions | Poster | November 2022 | Best Poster Pitch |
| Lucie Bertolaso | International Ozone Association EA3G Conference | November 2022 | |||
| Killian Gleeson | Water Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring 2022 | Linking Water Quality Sensors in Distribution Systems | Poster | October 2022 | Second place in the Sensor for Water Interest Group (SWIG) Early Career Innovation Poster Prize |
| Eleyna McGrady | Peter Wolf Early Career Symposium 2022: Hydrological Innovation for the Climate Emergency | Groundwater Resilience under Extreme Drought | Poster | September 2022 | |
| Sam Settle | International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology ISMET8 | Heavy metal and ammonia mixture toxicity towards mixed electroactive biofilms | September 2022 | ||
| Lucie Bertolaso | 15th Conference of the UK Water Network on Potable Water Treatment and Supply | Assessing the role of ozone and GAC processes in the UK water industry: past, present and future | Talk | September 2022 | |
| Sreelakshmi Babu | Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance (EDAR 6) Conference | Contrasting Biological, Genetic And Chemical Markers For Triaging AMR Potential In Wastewater Monitoring For Health Protection | Poster | September 2022 | |
| Jade Rogers | 2nd WDSA / CCWI Joint Conference | Disinfection Residual Behaviour within Drinking Water Distribution Systems | Talk, Paper | July 2022 | |
| Matthew MacRorie | 2nd WDSA / CCWI Joint Conference | A Model of Intermittent Water Supply Simulating the Inequitable Distribution of Water | Talk, Paper | July 2022 | |
| Reinar Lokk | 2nd WDSA / CCWI Joint Conference | The impact of drinking water network model spatial and temporal scale on hydraulic metrics indicating discolouration risk | Talk, Paper | July 2022 | |
| Edward John | 2nd WDSA / CCWI Joint Conference | Investigating an alternative to exhumed grey cast iron water pipes for small-scale fatigue tests | Talk, Paper | July 2022 | |
| Killian Gleeson | 14th International Conference on Hydroinformatics | Determining the spatio-temporal relationship between water quality monitors in drinking water distribution systems | Talk, Paper | July 2022 | |
| Matthew MacRorie | 1st Water-WISER Early Career Researcher Conference | A Conceptual Model of the Inequitable Distribution of Water in Intermittent Water Supply Systems | Talk | June 2022 | |
| Philippa Mohan | 25th European Junior Scientists Workshop on Monitoring Urban Drainage systems and rivers | May 2022 | |||
| Lucie Bertolaso | Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) | Impact of Reduced Regeneration Frequency on The Ion Exchange | Talk | April 2022 | |
| Philippa Mohan | 12th Urban Drainage Modelling Conference | Geostatistical Approach to Understanding the Effect of Rainfall Spatial-Temporal Uncertainty on a Small Urban Hydraulic Model | January 2022 | ||
| Killian Gleeson | AWWA Water Quality Technology Conference | Automated Data Quality Assurance for Water Quality Sensors in Drinking Water Distribution Systems | Talk | November 2021 | |
| Ravina Bains | 9th Conference of the UK Wastewater Network | The role of hydrogen for a resilient and low-emissions UK water sector | November 2021 | ||
| Clervie Genevois | RSPH Conference 2023 | 2023 | |||
| Pinelopi Savvidou | Cranfield Doctoral Network Annual Conference | Modelling the fate of micropollutants during wastewater treatment | 2023 | ||
| Isabel Carneiro Cardoso da Silva | UKWIR Annual Conference | Achieving Biological Stability in Drinking Water Supply Systems | 2022 | ||
| Thomas Langshaw | UKWIR Annual Conference | 2022 | |||
| Killian Gleeson | UKWIR Annual Conference | 2022 | |||
| Alethea Goddard | UKWIR Annual Conference | 2022 | |||
| Edward John | UKWIR Annual Conference | Understanding how the deterioration of grey cast iron pipes evolves into leakage | 2022 | ||
| Ali Leonard | UKWIR Annual Conference | 2022 | |||
| Ravina Bains | UKWIR Annual Conference | The role of hydrogen for a resilient and low-emissions UK water sector | 2022 | ||
| Polly Grundy | UKWIR Annual Conference | Controlling Water Chemistry to Minimise Brominated Disinfection By-Products | 2022 | ||
| Dimitris Athanasopoulos | UKWIR Annual Conference | 2022 | |||
| Sreelakshmi Babu | Environmental Biotechnology Network Conference | Developing biomarkers for tracking antimicrobial resistance in wastewater |