My research interests involve adapting microbial processes to produce fuels and other useful compounds from waste materials and biomass. I develop anaerobic digestion methodologies than can cope with ‘real world’, structurally complex biomass types including, food waste, crop residues and wastewater biosolids as well as developing fermentation technologies for gaseous waste streams such as carbon dioxide. I also research novel in situ separation technologies for extracting usefull fermentation products such as VFAs and nutrients and collaborate with my colleagues in the Sustainable Environment Research Centre (SERC) on novel ways to integrate anaerobic digestion with emerging bio-energy technologies such as microbial fuel cells, microbial electrolysis cells and electrochemical separation.