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2021 - Royal Academy of Engineering, Industry Fellowship, Enabling Hybrid Autonomous Nonconventional System for Clean Indoor Environment [ENHANCE] project (£63,888)

2021 - Innovate-UK SBRI project (as sub-contractor) on Removing air pollutants from homes to safeguard health (Collaborators: Jenton, DMU, AirGard, Colt international, Ref: 105611, Total: £49k).

2021 - QR-GCRF seed-corn funding with Nepal (as PI) Capacity building for monitoring nature-based engineering projects for mountainous region incorporating spatial imaging and AI (£15,000)

2021 – QR-GCRF seed-corn funding with Nigeria (as Co-I) EnHANCE-Hospitals project with Prof Katherine Huddersman from HLS (£24,800)

2021 – CEM RIO VC2020 / New L/SL Staff Fund (as PI) Renewable energy integrated waterless sanitation system (£2,975)

2020 - Royal Academy of Engineering, Transforming Systems through Partnership (as UK PI) Improved olive mill waste and wastewater management integrating circular economy for arid regions (Total Funding: £79,964 over 24 months with Al-Balqa Applied University and an industry, Jordan).

2020 – British Council Research Environment Link (as UK PI) UK-Turkey capacity building for wastewater treatment integrated with renewable energy and safer reuse for sustainable communities (Total grant: £36,025 over 12 months with Yildiz Technical University).

2020 – QR-GCRF seed corn funding (as PI) Enabling Hybrid Autonomous Non-Conventional Energy integrated Water/Wastewater Treatment System for Remote African Communities (Total: £24, 857).

2019 - Royal Academy of Engineering, Industry Academia Partnership Programme (as UK PI) Improved waste water treatment technology integrating renewable energy for arid regions (Total Funding: £48,777 over 24 months with Al-Balqa Applied University and an industry, Jordan).

2018 - British Council Institutional Link project with Turkey (as Co-I). Integrated Renewable-Thermal Energy Storage system for reducing heating/cooling energy burden in Refugee Camps (Green Refuge) (Total funding: £301,214 over 24 months with Çukurova University, Turkey).

2017 - British Council Institutional Link project with Egypt (as Co-I). Renewable Energy-based Fresh Water Provisioning Technology in Rural Areas of Egypt (ReFreshTEC) (Total funding: £227,507 over 24 months in collaboration with Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt).

2013 – EC Marie Curie Fellowship (as Co-I). Bio Energy Technology Assessment – Environmental Burden Minimisation (BETA-EBM) (Grant number: 332445; Total funding: £225,000).
2013 - EC Cost Action GreenInUrb Project (UK Management Committee member) (Grant number: FP1204) 30 European partner countries (2013-2017).

2011 - British Council CONNECT (as Project Manager) UK-US Prime Minister’s Initiative (PMI2) pump prime funding  to develop collaborative research with Penn State University, US and Indian Institute of Technology (India). Newcastle University (22 of 250 bids).

2010 – EPSRC-SUE3 funding (as Researcher Co-I) Self Conserving Urban Environment (SECURE). Newcastle University. Total Consortium Grant: £2.5M (final 4 out of 64 bids)

2010 - RCUK Early Career Award (as grant holder): for networking visit in order to develop new research idea/ joint proposal with the Energy and Resources Institute, India. Total award: £1500.