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- Institutions we're collaborating with
- United Kingdom Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities
- UCL Energy Systems Institute
- UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analytics
- UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction
- UCL EPICentre: An Interdisciplinary Centre for Natural Hazards Resilience
- Alan Turing Institute
- University of Birmingham Department of Civil Engineering
- Oxford University Environmental Change Institute
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- De Montfort Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development
- De Montfort Water Software Systems
- Cranfield University Energy Centre for Energy Systems and Strategy
- Cranfield Water Theme
- Sheffield Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
- Newcastle University Engineering Department
- Glasgow University Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
- Cambridge University Engineering Design Centre
- Cambridge University Centre for Digital Built Britain
- Warwick Business School
- Cranfield School of Management
- London Business School
- Surrey Centre for Research in Social Simulation
- Manchester University Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
- Seminars/keynote talks
2023
- Invited plenary talk: The case for an international standard on infrastructure resilience, RISK 2023, Brisbane, Australia (7 Sep 2023)
- Sponsored talk: Principles for Resilient Infrastructure, Carbon & Energy Professionals (CEP) Conference 2023 Our resilient future, New Zealand (28 Jun 2023)
2022
- InnovateUK Bright Sparks talk (2022) on energy resilience and decarbonising energy
- Invited talk: Digital twins in civil infrastructure, EuroSDR workshop on Digital Twins for NMCAs and other governmental organisations (28 Jun 2022)
2021
- Invited keynote speaker for International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-21 / (15-17 Sep 2021)
- Invited talk for Equitable Mobilities and Health launch (17 Sep 2021)
2020
- Invited talk to Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) on sustainable user innovation in domestic dwellings (18 Nov 2020)
2019
- Varga, L (2019), Aggregators: a new regime for mobilisation of distributed energy resources, 3rd International Conference on Energy, Ecology and Environment (ICEEE2019)/International Conference on Electric and Intelligent Vehicles (ICEIV2019), 23-26 Jul, Stavanger, Norway.
- Varga, L (2019), Complex systems models: better, faster and more inclusive, but is it enough for decision making? Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the built environment, 2 -3 July, EPICentre, UCL.
- Varga, L (2019), Thinking the Worst: complex, cascading and extreme disasters, 9th annual conference Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, UCL, 19 June.
- Varga, L (2019), DAFNI Network Plus, Data Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure, The Royal Society, 10-11 June.
- Varga, L (2019), The rise of Distributed Energy Resources, 4th International Scholars ‘Xiangjiang Forum’, Central South University, Changsha, China, 25 May.
- Varga, L (2019), Improvement of city infrastructure with sustainable urban management: a complexity workshop on city water systems, Royal Geographic Society Postgraduate forum midterm conference 2019, 24-26 April, Manchester Metropolitan University.
- Varga, L (2019), Abstracting emergence in living beings to demonstrate two types of weak emergence using simple models, Second International TRANSIT workshop on Cross-disciplinary Research (TWCR 2019), Cross-disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis and the University of York, 27-28 March, York.
- CSEI seminar speaker at Imperial College London, “Challenges for engineering resilience”, (27 Feb 2019)
- Conferences with papers
2023
- Bai, S (2023) BIM-enabled LCA to automate carbon assessment of pavements, Delivering the Future: Safe, Reliable & Sustainable Highways, Birmingham UK, National Highways doctoral students , 12th June 2023
- Fayaz, H, McMillan, L, Varga, L (2023) Deep-Learning Enabled Holistic Framework for Health Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems: Predicting, Detecting, and Identifying Leakage Events, ESReDA 63rd Seminar on Resilience Assessment: methodological challenges and applications to critical infrastructures, 25-26 Oct
- Tang, Y, Varga, L, Dolan, T, Li, Q (2023), Intelligent design framework for net resilience gain of urban metro system, ESReDA 63rd Seminar on Resilience Assessment: methodological challenges and applications to critical infrastructures, 25-26 Oct
2022
- Mahabadi, Z, Varga, L, Dolan, T (2022) A review of methodologies for locating electric vehicle charging stations, 7-9 Sep, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Smart and integrated infrastructure track, ISNGI 2022
- Varga, L, Dolan, T, Mahabadi, Z, McMillan, L, Tang, Y (2022), Principles for Resilient Civil Infrastructure, International Conference on Evolving Cities (ICEC 2022), 13-15 Jul, Southampton, UK
- McMillan, L , Fayaz , J, Varga, L, McMillan, L (2022) Machine-Learning-Based Health Monitoring and Leakage Management of Water Distribution Systems, International Conference on Evolving Cities (ICEC 2022), 13-15 Jul, Southampton, UK
2021
- Mahabadi, Z, Varga, L, Dolan, T (2021) A survey on multilayer networks modelled to analyse robustness in infrastructure systems, International Conference on Evolving Cities (ICEC 2021), 22-24 Sep, Southampton, UK
- Varga, L, McMillan, L (2021) Infrastructure Ontologies, International Conference on Evolving Cities (ICEC 2021), 22-24 Sep, Southampton, UK
- McMillan, L, Varga, L (2021) Self-Healing in Water Infrastructure Systems, International Conference on Evolving Cities (ICEC 2021), 22-24 Sep, Southampton, UK
- McMillan, L, Varga, L (2021) Self-Healing in Water Infrastructure Systems, TWENTY 65 annual conference (2021) 15-18 Mar 2021, on-line
2019
- Gomez-Mayordomo, A, Nieto-Martin, J, Varga, L (2019) Electric vehicle services in the Cornwall local energy market enabled by Blockchain smart contracts, IEEE Power and Energy Society, Aug 4-8, Atlanta, USA.
- Naghshbandi, S, Yukun, H, Varga, L (2019) Components of a technology roadmap for automated Excavation, 3rd International Conference on Energy, Ecology and Environment (ICEEE2019)/International Conference on Electric and Intelligent Vehicles (ICEIV2019), 23-26 Jul, Stavanger, Norway.
- Chowdhury J, Balta-Ozkan, Hu, Y, Varga L (2019) Spatial-temporal modelling of UK residential heat loads with ground source heat pumps, Regional Science Association International (RSAI) British & Irish Section 47th Annual Conference, 16-18 Jul, Cambridge, UK.
- Chowdhury J, Asfand F, Ozkan N, Hu Y, Varga L, Patchigolla K (2019), Waste heat recovery potential from industrial bakery ovens using thermodynamic power cycles. 32nd International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimisation, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems (ECOS), 22-28 June, Wroclaw, Poland.