That year was awarded matching grants from BF2RA (Biomass and Fossil Fuel Research Alliance) and EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) to undertake a PhD supervised by Dr. G Lu. within the instrumentation and measurement group at the University of Kent.
His research in the study of Instrumentation and Embedded Systems with a focus on the analysis of imagery and spectrometry to achieve an online characteristic measurement of fossil fuel-driven industrial power plant boilers to predict and reduce emission production.