{"id":91,"date":"2018-08-13T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T11:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=91"},"modified":"2018-08-13T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T11:09:09","slug":"dr-daniel-ainalis-research-associate-civil-and-environmental-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2018\/08\/13\/dr-daniel-ainalis-research-associate-civil-and-environmental-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Daniel Ainalis, Research Associate, Civil and Environmental Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-92\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/files\/2018\/08\/Imperial_280618-21-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I completed my undergraduate degree and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Victoria University in Melbourne, focussing on heavy goods vehicle dynamics.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Following a slightly different postdoc position in Belgium, I wanted to return to working on sustainable freight and the opportunity at Imperial to work at two leading laboratories within the Centre for Transport Studies (Transport &amp; Environment Laboratory, Transport Systems and Logistics) was simply too good to pass up! I am working with leading researchers on a variety of projects related to improving the sustainability and performance of transport.<\/p>\n<p>One of the research projects I am currently working on is focused on evaluating the economic and environmental benefits of Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) for heavy goods vehicles as part of an InnovateUK funded project. 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