CV - Nithiya Streethran

Experience

Scientific Officer II | Environmental Protection Agency Ireland
Wexford, IE | Nov 2024 — Present

Research Assistant | University College Cork
Cork, IE | May 2022 — Nov 2024

Project: H-Wind – Hydrogen from Offshore Wind
Funding: Science Foundation Ireland, ESB, DP Energy, Gas Networks Ireland, and Equinor
Project: ClimAg – Multifactorial causes of fodder crises in Ireland and risks due to climate change
Funding: Environmental Protection Agency – Climate Change Research Programme; Higher Education Authority – COVID-19 research support scheme

Research Fellow | University of Stavanger
Stavanger, NO | Apr 2018 — Apr 2020

Project: ENSYSTRA – ENergy SYStems in TRAnsition in the North Sea Region
Funding: European Union – Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme – Marie Skłodowska‐Curie Actions

University of Aberdeen | Aberdeen, UK | 2021 — 2022

MSc in Geographical Information Systems
Dissertation in collaboration with Community Energy Scotland: “Mapping the impacts of a proposed offshore wind development plan on Isle of Lewis communities”

Heriot-Watt University | Edinburgh, UK | 2013 — 2017

MSc in Renewable Energy Engineering (2017)
Industry-based dissertation in collaboration with Natural Power: “Specification of ‘normal’ wind turbine operating behaviour for rapid anomaly detection: through the use of machine learning algorithms”
BEng in Mechanical & Energy Engineering (2016)

Streethran, N., Hickey, K., Wingler, A., and Leahy, P. (2024). ClimAg: Multifactorial Causes of Fodder Crises in Ireland and Risks due to Climate Change. Johnstown Castle: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA Research Report, 464). Available at: https://www.epa.ie/publications/research/climate-change/research-464 (Accessed: 17 October 2024).
Wingler, A., Streethran, N., Hickey, K., and Leahy, P. (2024). ‘Multifactorial drivers of fodder crises in Irish temperate pastures and risks due to climate change’, Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 124B(2–3), pp. 91–102. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1353/bae.2024.a945364.
Streethran, N., Byrne, K., White, J., O’Neill, N., and Leahy, P. G. (2024). ‘Optimising Production and Long-Term Bulk Storage of Hydrogen from Offshore Wind in Subsurface Salt Caverns’. [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4960296.

Programming & data analysis: Python, R, GitHub, GitLab, JupyterLab, SQL, Microsoft Excel
Geospatial software: ArcGIS products, QGIS, CDO
Typesetting & documentation: LaTeX, Microsoft Office suite, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Sphinx
Operating Systems: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Windows Subsystem for Linux

English: Fluent
Malay: Fluent
Tamil: Intermediate
Norwegian (Bokmål): Basic; completed the A1 Norwegian Course for Foreigners with Higher Education (Norsk for voksne innvandrere) in Stavanger in 2019
Irish: Basic; completed the Beginners’ Course in Spoken Irish (Cúrsa do Thosnaitheoirí sa Ghaeilge Labhartha) in Cork in 2023

Course A: General and cross-cutting aspects for the technical expert review under the enhanced transparency framework under the Paris Agreement – UNFCCC, Online (2025)
Research Skills Training Programme (Continuing Professional Development) – University College Cork, IE (2023)
Cartography. – Esri, Online (2022)
Career Mentoring Programme – University of Aberdeen, UK (2021)
Energy Law, Policy, Planning & Governance – University of Groningen, NL (2019)
Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialisation – Imperial College London on Coursera, Online (2019)
Energy Economics: Markets, Investment & Business – University of Edinburgh, UK (2019)
Modelling Energy Systems: Setting the Interdisciplinary Stage – Europa‐Universität Flensburg, DE (2018)
Introduction to Energy Systems in Transition in the North Sea Region – University of Groningen, NL (2018)
Blue Growth Summer School – Ghent University, BE (2017)