Simon Roberts

I am an Honorary Professor within the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, in the College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences.

I'm a physicist interested in a country's capacity to transition to a net-carbon future and our options for realistic, evidenced-based policies to that end. This has led me to investigating whole country modelling and developing a model calibrated from extensive historical data and with the fewest assumptions for projecting into the future. The model is called 7see, as started while I worked in the Foresight Group at Arup, my last employer. Types of data underpinning 7see include economic stocks and flows, energy capacity and use, employment, transport and housing.