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Sustainable Design with AI

Research

Research areas

Advancing the science and practice of sustainable design with AI — across assessment methods, process systems, and the infrastructure that connects them.

Life cycle assessment analyst reviewing environmental model results

AI for life cycle assessment

Methods for data curation, inventory modeling, impact analysis, and interpretation support — with an emphasis on where AI assistance is defensible and where it is not.

Researcher working with a stainless-steel bioprocess pilot plant

Sustainable process design

Process design, optimisation, and scale-up for industrial and bio-based applications, evaluated across technical, economic, and environmental criteria.

Materials recovery facility separating reusable material streams

Circular economy systems

Material flow modeling, waste and recovery systems, and circularity metrics for products and regions.

Green hydrogen production equipment supplied by renewable electricity

Green hydrogen & low-carbon technology

Techno-economic and environmental evaluation of emerging energy technologies, with a focus on hydrogen production pathways under varying market conditions.

Environmental research station monitoring a biodiverse landscape

Open sustainability infrastructure

Open tools, data standards, and connector infrastructure that make sustainability science reproducible and reusable.

Approach

How we work.

Applied research that has to survive contact with a real decision, not just a paper.

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Method first

Every tool starts from a documented method. If the method is contested, we say so rather than smoothing it over.

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Reproducible by default

Analyses are versioned, scripted, and re-runnable. A result that cannot be reproduced is not a result.

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Published openly

Code, assumptions, and limitations are published together so others can check and extend the work.

Technical papers & notes

Method notes, implementation write-ups, and documentation are collected in the technical library as they are published.

Open the technical library

Interested in collaborating on research?

We work with academic groups, industry teams, and open-source maintainers on applied sustainability problems.