Barnaby Dobson

Barnaby Dobson is a Research Fellow at Imperial College London's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, part of the Faculty of Engineering. His research focuses on integrated water infrastructure modeling, emphasizing holistic evaluation of water systems' impacts on river quality. He developed the WSIMOD software to simulate interactions between water systems and management practices, with recent work exploring sewage spills' effects on river biodiversity through machine learning.

Education and Background:

• 2023–current: Imperial College London, Research Fellow (Fluids Section)
• 2019–2023: Imperial College London, Research Associate (Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Section, CAMELLIA Project)
• 2018–2019: University of Oxford, Research Associate (Geography Department, Marius Project)
• 2014–2018: University of Bristol, PhD (Water Resource Systems Modelling, supervised by Dr. Francesca Pianosi and Prof. Thorsten Wagener)

Research Themes:

• Integrated water system modeling
• Uncertainty quantification in socio-physical systems
• Optimisation for water resource control
• Linking wastewater systems to ecological impacts

Key Projects:

• WSIMOD: Novel software for simulating water system interactions
• CAMELLIA Project: Integrated water systems modeling
• Marius Project: National water supply modeling for England and Wales