Daniel’s research interests can be divided into three core areas:

1) Monitoring and quantifying the influence of blue-green infrastructure and nature-based solutions to mitigate and attenuate flood risk in urban areas;
2) Flood risk analysis and resilience assessment, exploring the impact of fluvial and surface water flood events on urban infrastructure;
3) Modelling of urban surface water flooding caused by intense precipitation events using numerical and experimental, rainfall simulator based approaches.

Daniel is an Assistant Professor in Nature-based Solutions based at the Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh campus. Prior to working at Heriot-Watt University, Daniel was based at the National Green Infrastructure Facility at Newcastle University, UK working as a PDRA on the EPSRC Urban Green DaMS (Design and Modelling of SuDS) project.

Daniel completed his PhD at Loughborough University, which focused on urban rainfall-runoff responses using physical and numerical modelling approaches. He has worked as a NERC-funded PDRA focusing on emergency responder accessibility during flood events at Loughborough University, as well as a Senior Lecturer in Flood Risk Management at the University of Chester.