Research Associate


Current Work

I am a postdoc in Prof Alex Archibald's group in the Centre for Atmospheric Science. I am working also with National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) researchers Dr Luke Abraham and Maria Russo, and PhD student Zainab Hakim on the NERC-funded REVEAL-NOx project, which aims to better quantify the climate effects of aviation NOx emissions.

We are now at the stage where we have made many global atmosphere model runs to estimate the climate forcing due to aviation NOx, including over the interesting Covid "anthropause". We have started comparing both our results and those of partner universities against observational datasets to qualify the individual models, and will feed that into weights for multi-model ensemble climate effect predictions.

Previous Career

I worked for many years in automotive electronics as a software engineer, in diverse projects covering electric powertrain, combustion engine and pollution controls, autonomous vehicles, and also software tools. As technical leader I present the final video of the UKRI-funded MuCCA autonomous vehicle consortium project here

I have also been involved in machine learning competitions on public platforms, and other coding projects including an early educational molecular dynamics project. I have a GitHub area here.

PhD

I did my PhD here in Cambridge under Prof Sir David King, concerning the measurement and modelling of heats of adsorption and reaction on single-crystal metal surfaces. My thesis is available here. Nearly thirty years on, I was able to retrieve a couple of souvenir bits of metalwork from the floor of my old ground-floor lab just before it was refurbished...

Publications

Please see my Google Scholar page, or my (currently incomplete) ORCID page.

An autogenerated list of publications appears below.

Also

I have a LinkedIn profile here.

I am a marathon-running nerd; for results and niche videos see here.

Publications

A comparative analysis of multi‐criteria decision methods for secure beacon selection in vehicular platoons
SJ Taylor, F Ahmad, HN Nguyen, SA Shaikh, J Bryans, CE Wartnaby
Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
(2023)
34
ARISTOTLE: AddRessIng falSe daTa injectiOn atTacks in vehicLE platoons
SJ Taylor, F Ahamad, HN Nguyen, SA Shaikh, D Evans, CE Wartnaby
IET Conference Proceedings
(2023)
2022
A formal framework for security testing of automotive over-the-air update systems
R Kirk, HN Nguyen, J Bryans, SA Shaikh, C Wartnaby
Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming
(2023)
130
Bps: Beacon Prediction and Selection to Mitigate FDI Attacks in Vehicular Platoons
SJ Taylor, F Ahmad, HN Nguyen, SA Shaikh, CE Wartnaby, D Evans
SSRN Electronic Journal
(2022)
Decentralized Cooperative Collision Avoidance for Automated Vehicles: a Real-World Implementation
D Bellan, C Wartnaby
2020 IEEE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM (IV)
(2020)
00
Decentralised cooperative collision avoidance with reference-free model predictive control and desired versus planned trajectories
C Wartnaby, D Bellan
(2019)
ADSORPTION HEATS AND STICKING PROBABILITIES FOR CO ON POTASSIUM-PREDOSED Ni{110}
CE WARTNABY, JT STUCKLESS, DA KING
Surface Review and Letters
(2012)
1
Auto-Generated Production Code Development for Ford/Think Fuel Cell Vehicle Programme
CE Wartnaby, SM Bennett, M Ellims, RR Raju, MS Mohammed, B Patel, SC Jones
SAE Technical Papers
(2003)
1
Microcalorimetric study of ethylene adsorption at 300 K on Pt{100}-hex and Pt{100}-(1x1)
YY Yeo, A Stuck, CE Wartnaby, R Kose, DA King
Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical
(1998)
131
Oxygen chemisorption and oxide film growth on Ni{100}, {110}, and {111}: Sticking probabilities and microcalorimetric adsorption heats
JT Stuckless, CE Wartnaby, N Al-Sarraf, SJB Dixon-Warren, M Kovar, DA King
The Journal of Chemical Physics
(1997)
106

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Centre Highlights

• July 2025: The PACESETTERS project launches one of its Real-World Labs (RWL) in Galway, marking a key milestone in the project's mission to connect creative practice with climate transformation. Prof. Annela Anger-Kraavi gives a talk "Where Are We Now?" sharing insights on what's needed to drive meaningful climate transition.

• June 2025: New publication: Compounding injustices can impede a just energy transition

• January 2024: The CCPG have successfully submitted a proposal for PACESETTERS!

• September 2nd 2023: Dr Annela Anger-Kraavi has co-authored a paper analysing just transition narratives in European coal regions. Read the paper here

• December 13th 2022: The CCPG have co-authored a paper on game-changing innovations towards net-zero, published in Energy Strategy Reviews. Read the open access paper here.

• November 15th 2022: The final conference of PARIS REINFORCE is taking place today in Sorbonne. Read more about the event here

• October 24th 2022: The CCPG have successfully submitted a proposal for the Cambridge-Tsinghua joint research initiative! 

• May 5th 2022: We've submitted to the UNFCCC's Global Stocktake (GST). More information is available on our news page. 

• March 23rd 2022: Multiple CAS academics have published a paper investigating the future role of anthropogenic methane emissions. Read the open access paper here.

• Feb 18th 2022: Dr Parris and Dr Anger-Kraavi have co-authored a paper that develops a tool to support co-designed transformative change. Read the open access paper here.

• Dec 16th 2021: Dr Parris has co-authored a paper that introduces a tool to support plastic pollution policy. Read the open access paper here.

• Nov 22nd 2021: Dr Anger-Kraavi has co-authored a paper with Paris Reinforce. Read the open access version here


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