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The CONUNDRUM Research Project has been awarded the runner-up prize in the Sustainable Communities Challenge, funded by Research Ireland — securing two further years of funding to continue working with towns through the townsmatter.ie tool. Wonderful to be part of a great team led by Niamh Moore-Cherry and Brian Caulfield, alongside Dean Phelan, Conor Dowling, Kieran Harrahill, Rachel McCardle, Zikang Ji, Rudi O'Reilly Meehan, and Sarah Bowman. Thanks also to TASC (Think-tank for Action on Social Change) as Societal Impact Champion, and to Wexford County Council, Waterford City & County Council, and Cork County Council for their support. More details ↗

Eight papers accepted for presentation at leading international conferences in 2026, spanning sustainable mobility, cycling behaviour, electric vehicle adoption, and energy transitions.

Delivered an invited talk — "Personalised Cost and Carbon Savings as a Behavioural Nudge for Electric Vehicle Adoption" — based on research at the Trinity Centre for Transport Research, funded by SEAI, hosted by Prof. Varun Varghese at the Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati. Co-authors on the upcoming paper: Brian Caulfield, Peter Lennon, Ubaid Illahi, and Margaret O'Mahony.

Paper accepted in Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks: Alexander Voß, A.C. Singh, Brian Caulfield, and David Mc Closkey. "Electrical Distribution Network Challenges of Rapid EV Adoption in Rural Areas Surrounding Urban Centres: Case Study in Ireland."

Research on inequalities in sustainable technology adoption featured in The Irish Times: "EVs, solar panels and heat pumps concentrated in affluent areas of Ireland."

Delivered an invited talk — "What strategic transport models tell us about cycling uptake, impacts, and future opportunities" — at the IST Lab Group of Prof. Ashish Verma, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

Published in Energy Research & Social Science: Singh, A.C. and B. Caulfield (2026). "Affluence, spatial spillovers, and inequality in household energy transitions: Exploring the determinants of sustainable technology adoption in Ireland." 134, 104637.

Four papers accepted for Lectern presentation at the World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), July 2026, Toulouse, France.

First grant as co-Principal Investigator: SEAI Research, Development & Demonstration Grant (Ireland, 2026–2030) for the project "Causal Inference for Resilient Cities and Urban Integrated Transport (CIRCUIT)" with Prof. Brian Caulfield. Led the proposal development and designed a novel integrative framework combining causal inference, machine learning, energy–transport modelling, and urban planning analysis.

Delivered an invited talk — "Modelling cycling potential in Cork and the southwest of Ireland" — at the Department of Transport, Dublin.

Completed the Special Purpose Certificate in Teaching, Learning and Assessment for Academic Practice, Trinity College Dublin (2025–2026).

Published in Transportation Research Part D: Brazil, W., K. Whitaker, R. Egan, A.C. Singh, B. Colleary and B. Caulfield (2026). "Modelling potential demand for cycling in a small city and surrounding region." 151, 105115.

Organised the Trinity College Dublin School of Engineering "Researchers Day" in the historic Museum Building, together with Bidisha Ghosh and Mary Kerrigan.

Met Irish former independent politician Mr Denis Naughton; Conor Dowling and I represented the CONUNDRUM Research Project at the Research Ireland policy workshop.

First grant award as co-investigator: EPA Research Grant (Ireland, 2026–2028). Awarded €302,757 for the project "Integrated Grid Resilience for Infrastructure Sustainability & Emergencies."

Youghal Strategy launch for the CONUNDRUM project. Watch the recording.

Delivered a seminar — "Socioeconomic and spatial determinants of sustainable technology adoption in Ireland" — at the UCD Energy Institute, University College Dublin.

Honoured to serve as Research Staff Representative at Trinity College Dublin on the School of Engineering Executive and Research Committees (2025–2026).

Serving as part-time Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin for Transportation Modelling and Planning (CE7T02), delivering the Discrete Choice Methods and Stated Preference Survey module.

Awarded the National Forum Digital Badge in Universal Design for Teaching & Learning (Ireland).

Dr. Hajime Watanabe and I delivered a talk at the National Transport Authority, hosted by Barry Colleary.

Hosted Dr. Hajime Watanabe at Trinity College Dublin through a Visiting Professor Grant.

Presented "Exploring the determinants of sustainable technology adoption in Ireland" to the Just Transition Commission.

Back-to-back presentations at the ITRN and UTSG conferences in Dublin.

Supervised my first MAI (Integrated BSc–MSc) student, Kellie Devine, Trinity College Dublin, and an MSc thesis by Edward Deming Sinaga, Imperial College London.

Proud to co-supervise my first PhD student, Matthias Langer, together with Prof. Gebhard Wulfhorst at the Technical University of Munich — taking over supervision responsibilities following the passing of my dear friend and colleague, Prof. Rolf Moeckel.

Attended the 17th Annual Workshop on Economics, Psychology and Policy at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin.

Attended the Urban Transitions Conference in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.

Delivered an invited seminar at Nagoya University — "Cyclists' behavioural modelling using multi-city data" — meeting Dr. Toshiyuki Yamamoto and Dr. Kay Axhausen.

Presented "Integrated Land Use, Transport, Energy and Environment (ILUTEE) Modelling for Sustainable Future Cities" at the Osaka symposium on land use and transport, organised by Dr. Rolf Moeckel and Dr. Masanobu Kii, alongside Hajime Watanabe.

Visited University of Tokyo for an invited seminar with Dr. Hajime Watanabe and his team; connected with Dr. Giancarlos Parady.

Started as Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and co-founded CityFlow Analytics.

Presented "Bicycle route choice modelling using multi-city data" at the International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), Vienna, Austria; with Christopher Tsa-Kwet-Shin, Ahmadreza Faghih Imani, and Audrey de Nazelle.

Participated in the Mary Robinson Climate Conference in Ballina, Mayo. Co-organised a panel on the electrification of mobility — covering EVs, e-bikes, life-cycle assessments, and freight transport — with James Green, Louise Foley, Lorraine D'Arcy, and Brian Caulfield.

Pre-print: "A Joint Mixed-outcome and Instrumental Variable Model for Addressing Endogeneity in Multinomial Choice and Its Consideration Set Formation" — now available on SSRN; with Hajime Watanabe.

Published in Transportation Research Part A: "A joint analysis of accessibility and household trip frequencies by travel mode"; with Ahmadreza Faghih Imani, Aruna Sivakumar, Yang Xi, and Eric Miller.

Two papers accepted at the International Choice Modelling Conference (ICMC), April 2024, Puerto Varas, Chile:

Started as Research Associate at the School of Allied Health, University of Limerick, on the ISCycle project — funded by SEAI and the Department of Transport, led by Dr. James Green.

Started teaching Research Design Studio to Civil Engineering undergraduates at University of Limerick, Ireland (part-time).

Passed PhD defence (Viva) with no corrections. Examiners: Dr. Dan Graham (Imperial College London) and Dr. Jonas De Vos (University College London).

Presented "Accessibility measures incorporating air pollution and crime" at the Irish Transport Research Network (ITRN) conference, Sligo; with Aruna Sivakumar, Fangce Guo, and Adam Gough.

Two papers accepted at World Conference on Transport Research, Montreal, Canada, July 2023:

Passed Late Stage Review with examiner Prof. Dan Graham — onwards to writing the dissertation.

Teaching Assistant for Transport Demand and Economics (CIVE70016), Imperial College London.

Gave a talk — "Semi-compensatory probabilistic model for residential location choices" — at Kai Nagel's Lab, TU Berlin, Germany.

Presented at the International Choice Modelling Conference (ICMC), Reykjavik, Iceland.

Started as Summer Research Fellow at the Professorship of Travel Behaviour, working with Rolf Moeckel at TU Munich, Germany.

Gave a talk — "Theoretical and Applied Choice Modelling" — at ASDA head office, Leeds, UK.

Awarded Imperial College Global Fellows Fellowship and Turing Research Award to undertake research at TU Munich, Germany.

Paper "Semi-compensatory probabilistic model for residential location choices" accepted at the International Choice Modelling Conference (ICMC), Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2022.

Appointed Steering Committee Member at the Imperial Network of Excellence for Life Cycle Assessment.

Joined as volunteer Mentor for The AMOS Bursary and as Mentor at TechLabs London for the academic year.

Started part-time as Senior Data Scientist at ASDA Business Services, Leeds, UK — working with large-scale real-world sales data and causal experiments.

Presented "Incorporating the impacts of air pollutants and exposure to crime into accessibility-based planning: A London Case Study" at the WSTLUR conference (remote).

Report "Exploring and quantifying the effect of weather on sales" published on The Alan Turing Institute website.

Participating in the Data Study Group at the Alan Turing Institute & Leeds Institute of Data Analytics.

Accepted to present "Psychosocial Factors associated with Intended Use of Automated Vehicles: A Latent Class and Latent-Variable Analysis" at hEART, Lyon, France; with Helene Bouscasse and Aruna Sivakumar.

Teaching Assistant for Advanced Transport Modelling (CIVE97126), Imperial College London.

Passed Early Stage Assessment — a key milestone in the PhD journey. Examiner: Prof. Dan Graham.

First PhD paper accepted at hEART 2020.

Awarded Wellcome Trust Fellowship and Department Dixon Scholarship for PhD at Imperial College London.

Started PhD at Imperial College London, working with Prof. Aruna Sivakumar.