National and urban-scale spatially-resolved energy systems models. Energy transitions; energy supply, infrastructure, technology, and policy trade-offs. Optimisation of energy systems and supply chains. Heat decarbonisation. Hydrogen supply chains.

Supervision of MSc Theses and Final Year Projects:
2020, David James Wickham, Techno-Economic Assessment to Determine and Optimise Possible Infrastructure for Production, Transmission, Purification and Distribution of Hydrogen for Transport in the UK, Thesis MSc Advanced Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London.
2019, Alhasan Al-Sherbaz and Klement Tam, Developing a hydrogen supply chain infrastructure model to explore low-carbon pathways in the UK, Chemical Engineering final year research project, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London.
2019, Jamie Ludlow, Appraisal of the potential for energy utilisation of biogenic residues in Chile including assessment of socio-political and commercial barriers, Thesis MSc in Environmental Technology, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London.
2019, Jaffer Al Bahrani, The potential for District Cooling in Urban Areas in Brazil, Thesis MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures, Energy Futures Lab, Imperial College London.
2018, James Toole and Sachin Gulati, Modelling of Natural Gas Supply Chain Construction and Investment Pathways in Regions with Minimal Existing Infrastructure, Chemical Engineering final year research project, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London.

2021, Part of the academic technical support group for the Long-Term Energy Planning process 2023-2027 of the Ministry of Energy, Chile
(Planificación Energética de Largo Plazo, PELP 2023-2027)

Conference presentations:
F. Jalil-Vega, I. García Kerdan, A.D. Hawkes (2019) Spatially-resolved urban energy systems model to study decarbonisation pathways for energy services in Sao Paulo. In: ETRI 2019-Energy Transition Research & Innovation, 1-2 October 2019, São Paulo, Brazil.
F. Jalil-Vega, A.D. Hawkes (2018) Retrofitting the UK gas grid into hydrogen: is it economically feasible?. In: Energy Systems Conference, 19-30 June 2018, London, UK.
F. Jalil-Vega, A.D. Hawkes, (2018) Integrated urban energy systems approach for assessing the role of hydrogen in heat decarbonisation pathways: a UK case study. In: 1st Latin American Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 28-31 January 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
F. Jalil-Vega, A.D. Hawkes, (2017) Modelling heat supply and infrastructure trade-offs for studying heat decarbonisation pathways in a UK case study. In: Tenth Annual Meeting of the IAMC, 5-7 December 2017, Recife, Brazil.
F. Jalil-Vega, A.D. Hawkes, (2017) Spatially-resolved systems modelling for cost-effective heat decarbonisation: A case study. In: WholeSEM Annual Conference, 3-4 July 2017, London, UK.
Jalil, F., Hawkes, A. (2015) A model for the systematic assessment of the role of microgeneration in low carbon heating. In: The 4th International Conference on Microgeneration and Related Technology, 28-30 October, 2015, Tokyo, Japan.
Jalil, F., Hawkes, A. (2015) A mixed-integer linear programme optimisation model for determining optimal infrastructure investments and operation for decarbonising heat demand in the UK. In: 10th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 27 September-3 October, 2015, Dubrovnik, Croatia.