Beamari Alarva

Beamari is an MRes + PhD student at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero (FIBE3 CDT). Her research focuses on the carbon emission implications of natural flood management (NFM) in urban landscapes. She aims to contribute to the transformation to net-zero infrastructure by providing quantified, sustainable and optimised solutions to be integrated. She is supervised by Professor Dongfang Liang.

She earned her MEng in Civil Engineering with Sustainability at Brunel University of London. Her Bachelor’s year dissertation, named “The Effect of Climate Change on Dam Overtopping through Crest Settlement”, investigated the cyclical effect of flooding and drought worsened by climate change. Her Master’s year dissertation, named “Optimised Design of an Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea”, optimises and justifies the positioning of wind turbines on the London Thames Estuary through genetic algorithms and the Jensen Wake modelling.

She has professional experience as a Technical Engineer at VSL Systems, a Bouygues company, working on the post-tensioning in the twin nuclear reactor islands at Hinckley Point C. This included liaising with industry-leading experts, developing the first thixotropic grout of its kind. She looks forward to developing existing and new research skills during her time at Cambridge.