Editorial Board Members--Urban Systems

Dr. Manoj Kumar Nallapaneni is a transdisciplinary energy and sustainability engineer with a Ph.D. in Digital Circular Economy & Circular Power Systems from the City University of Hong Kong. He has done two Masters, one in Renewable Energy Technologies from Karunya University and the other in Environmental Economics from Annamalai University. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from GITAM University. He worked in various positions, Research Fellow at Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia; Assistant Professor at Bharat Institute of Engineering and Technology, India, and Energy Engineer at Atiode Solar Systems Limited, Nigeria. He mainly focuses on building sustainable and resilient systems across critical infrastructure sectors by adopting nexus thinking and systems innovation with an emphasis on circular business models and digitalization. He worked on key sustainability challenges that include design, performance modeling and analysis of a wide range of clean energy and environmental systems, food-energy-water-waste nexus, industrial symbiosis, waste valorization and material passports, carbon accounting and pricing. He possesses an interdisciplinary skill set that includes performance analytics, techno-economics, life cycle assessment, resilience assessment, leveraging digital innovation, business model innovation, and nexus systems design with transdisciplinary research concepts. His research works are simulation, experimental, real-time empirical and location or climate-specific studies.

New photovoltaic systems; Circular power system; Digital circular economy; Sustainability & resilience; Techno-economic analysis; Life cycle assessment