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Name | School | Job title | Areas of expertise |
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Ali Abdulkarim Alazzawi | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Sustainable fuel |
Mohammad Fikry Abdullah | Business | PhD researcher | Big Data Analytics (BDA); Hydroinformatics; UN Sustainable Development Goals; Data, Information & Knowledge Management; Decision Making |
Antonio Abellan | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Engineering Geology & Geohazards | Investigating glacier front evolution; Glacier monitoring (time-lapse cameras, UAV, LiDAR); Impact of climate change on natural hazards & risk |
Beverley Adams | Performance and Cultural Industries | PhD researcher | Sustainable puppetry practices: Investigating the Communicative Efficacy of a Giant Climate Change Themed Puppet in Public Space |
Salma Alarefi | Electronic and Electrical Engineering | Teaching Fellow | Decarbonisation of cities; renewable assisted EV charging stations; sustainable electronics engineering; sustainable electrical engineering |
Manhal Ali | Business | Lecturer in HR Analytics | Firm resilience to climate change, adoption of sustainable solutions |
Pepa Ambrosio-Albala | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Adaptation to climate change; perception of climate change risk; change towards sustainability, pro-environmental behaviours and resilience; indigenous peoples and climate change adaptation |
Jillian Anable | Institute for Transport Studies | Chair in Transport and Energy | Transport and mobility, uptake of low carbon vehicle technology, mobility demand and long term trends, theories of practice and behaviour |
Gordon Andrews | Chemical and Process Engineering | Professor of Combustion Engineering | Biofuels, biomass and biocoal |
Susan Ann Samuel | Politics and International Studies | PhD researcher | International female leadership driving international normative change in response to the climate crisis |
George Appiah-Kubi | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Climatic uncertainty on green infrastructure |
Stanislaus Risadi Apresian | Politics and International Studies | PhD researcher | Political economy of climate change adaptation |
Emmanuel Aramendia | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Energy-economy modelling; Energy transition; Energy conservation; Energy rebound; Non-renewable natural resources depletion |
Nir Arielli | History | Associate Professor of International History | The human history of the Dead Sea, including the impact of historic shifts in climate on the prosperity of the region |
Steve Arnold | Earth and Environment | Professor of Atmospheric Composition | Processing and transport of trace gases and aerosols in the atmosphere; Earth's biosphere & climate system |
Ingrid Edith Arotoma Rojas | Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (LIHS) / Food Science and Nutrition / Earth and Environment | Priestley PhD researcher | |
Ashar Aslam | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Tropical meteorology, atmospheric physics, extreme rainfall, deep convection, climate modelling |
Alisha Ault | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Just transition, energy transition, adaptation and mitigation, critical minerals |
Peyman Babakhani | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate change mitigation; Geoengineering |
Akintunde Babatunde | Civil Engineering | Associate Professor | Systems and processes; engineering and technology; people and places |
Ciara Baines | Biology | Postdoctoral Research Assistant | Marine tropicalisation |
Jessica Baker | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Feedbacks between tropical forests and climate, land-atmosphere interactions, hydrological cycles, climate model evaluation |
Mustafa Bakr | Electronic and Electrical Engineering | Visiting Researcher | Renewable energy: wind turbines; power electronics; smart cities; internet of things |
Ursula Balderson | Business | Research Fellow | Future-of-work; Just Transition; Skill for decarbonisation; working time reductions; degrowth |
Marina Baldissera Pacchetti | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | History and Philosophy of Climate Science; Climate Change Adaptation |
Myrna Barjau Perez Milicua | Biology | PhD researcher | Impacts of extreme events (warming and drought) and invasive species on biodiversity and function of freshwater ecosystems |
Will Barker | Geography | Postdoctoral Fellow in Ecology | Tropical ecology, nutrient cycling, biotic interactions and carbon sequestration |
Anna Barker | Law | Associate Professor | Future is public green space |
Natasha Barlow | Earth and Environment | Professor of Environmental Change | Sea-level changes over a range of timescales |
Hannah Barnett | Geography | PhD researcher | Glacier detachment events and surges, remote sensing and GIS, risk and hazard |
David Barns | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow in Geosolutions | Heat decarbonisation, policy, regulation, business models |
John Barrett | Earth and Environment | Chair in Sustainability Research | Energy demand, sustainability, economic growth, carbon accounting |
Sumedha Basu | Earth and Environment | Postdoctoral researcher | Urban energy governance, climate change policy and politics |
Denise Becker | Earth and Environment | Masters student | Palaeoclimate |
Fiona Beckett | English | Professor of Contemporary Poetics | Ecopoetics; 'Plant blindness' in Climate-Change Discourse; Rare Plants |
Nadhir Ben Rached | Mathematics | Lecturer in Applied Statistics | Rare events simulations |
Justine Bendel | Law | Lecturer in International Environmental and Climate Change Law | Forest governance, climate litigation, environmental litigation, biodiversity, carbon sinks |
Amy Bennett | Geography | Research fellow | Tropical forests; climate change; El Niño; drought |
Monica Bernal Llanos | Law | Research Fellow | co-production of climate knowledge and politics; climate change adaptation, risk reduction; climate justice; climate finance; sustainable business |
Susan Bernal Lopez | Civil Engineering | Professor of Structural Materials | Decarbonisation of cement and concretes; Management and valorisation of wastes; Extending longevity of concrete structures |
Lea Berrang Ford | Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (LIHS) / Earth and Environment | ||
Eeshan Bhaduri | Institute for Transport Studies | Research Fellow | Energy and emissions from vehicle automation |
Ajay Gajanan Bhave | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Environment and Development | Climate change adaptation; Water resources; Decision making under uncertainty |
Sofia Biffi | Geography | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Agroecology |
Samuel Birch | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Decarbonisation |
Hannah Birch | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Impacts of Biomass use and associated land use change in tea/coffee growing regions, with focus upon climate change implications |
Cathryn Birch | Earth and Environment | Professor in Meteorology and Climate | Rainfall, convection and severe weather; Tropical meteorology; Monsoons and the water cycle; Regional climate modelling; Links between rainfall and flooding |
Leon Black | Civil Engineering | Professor of Infrastructure Materials | Decarbonisation of Infrastructure, circular economy |
Steven Boeing | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Dynamics and thermodynamics of moist convection; Parametrisation of convection; Turbulence; Boundary-layer meteorology |
Stephanie Bond | Geography | Impact Translation Fellow | Flood management, hydrology, nature-based solutions, knowledge exchange and stakeholder engagement |
Muriel Bonjean Stanton | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow in decision making under uncertainty | Climate adaptation; infrastructure (water, electricity, transport); organisational behaviour and organisational change; decision making under uncertainty |
Ruth Bookbinder | Earth and Environment | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | |
Graham Boustead | Chemistry | Research Fellow | Production of tropospheric species, production of nitrous acid on the surface of aerosols |
Alex Bowler | Food Science and Nutrition | Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Food | Carbon footprinting |
Carrie Bradshaw | Law | Lecturer | Food waste / waste (law and policy) |
Lina Brand Correa | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Finding alternative pathways to decouple the benefits we derive from energy use, from the climate impacts of our current energy systems and practices |
Douglas Bray | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Cultivation of algae for use in bioremediation and development of carbon neutral biofuels. Developing a waste management structure for LEDCs |
Christian Bretter | Institute for Transport Studies | Senior Research Fellow | Psychology, policy support |
Roel Brienen | Geography | Professor | Ecosystem functioning;interactions between ecology and environment; impact of climate on tropical forests |
Paul Brockway | Earth and Environment | University Academic Fellow | Energy efficiency; energy-economy decoupling; thermodynamic efficiency limits. |
Flora Brocza | School of Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Clean energy: Sustainable materials for pollution reduction and energy storage |
Aaron Brown | Chemical and Process Engineering | EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow | Utilisation of bioenergy through anaerobic digestion |
Llinos Brown | Institute for Transport Studies | Research Fellow | Decarbonisation of transport system; Energy cultures; Energy behaviour; Transport behaviour; Workplace energy use; Social science research |
Lee Brown | Geography | Professor of Aquatic Science | Climate change impacts on freshwater availability, water quality and ecosystems |
Marta Bruno Soares | Earth and Environment | Met Office University Academic Fellow | Social sciences of climate services; Usability of climate information; Science-policy interface; Vulnerability assessment and adaptation |
Abigail Buchan | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Palaeoclimate, climate modelling |
Milena Buchs | Earth and Environment | Professor in Sustainable Welfare | Transforming economies and wellbeing for carbon reduction; Inequality of household carbon footprints, distributional implications of carbon reduction |
Shaun Buckley | Computing | PhD researcher | Deep learning |
Lauren Burton | Earth and Environment | PhD Researcher | Palaeoclimate, climate modelling, drivers of climate change |
Jonathan Busch | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Low carbon infrastructure transitions, business models and socio-technical systems modelling |
Chiara Calastri | Institute for Transport Studies | Lecturer in Rail Economics | Aviation, travel behaviour, passenger choices |
Yadiame Cama | Earth and Evironment | Masters student | |
Hannah Campbell | Biomedical Science | Lecturer in Applied Physiology | Implementing climate change into the exercise and sport science curriculum; exploring how individuals in these fields can address global challenges at individual, community and policy levels |
Michael Cardwell | Law | Professor of Agricultural Law | Agriculture and the environment including Agricultural law, policy, holdings and world trade |
Ken Carslaw | Earth and Environment | Professor of Atmospheric Science | Modelling of atmospheric aerosols and clouds and their effect on atmospheric composition |
Imogen Carter | Geography | PhD researcher | Tree ring stable isotopes |
Aaron Carvell | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Bioenergy, providing biomass based sustainable solutions to energy needs |
Oriana Casasola | Law | Lecturer in Commercial Corporate and Banking Law | Farmers financial distress |
Oscar Cespedes | Physics and Astronomy | Professor of Condensed Matter Physics | Internet, computing and electronics |
Samit Chakrabarty | Biomedical Sciences | Lecturer in Neuroscience | Sustainable healthcare |
Andy Challinor | Earth and Environment | Professor of Climate Impacts | |
Sally Chan | Business | Lecturer in Marketing and University Sustainability Architect | Advertising archival research, communicating climate change and climate anxiety |
Pippa Chapman | Geography | Chair in Biogeochemistry | Impact of CC on soil processes; peatlands and GHG emissions; GHG emissions from agricultural soils; nature based solutions and CC mitigation |
Arunangsu Chatterjee | Medicine | Dean of Digital Transformation | Low carbon and socio-economic |
Paul Chatterton | Geography | Professor | Social justice, climate emergency, sustainable cities, participatory methods |
Yue Chen | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Aerosol-radiation interactions |
Han Chen | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Environmental economics; environment and development; environmental governance; emission trading system |
Zihong Chen | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Emissions trading systems and technological innovation for climate change mitigation |
Daniel Chernick | Chemical & Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Bioenergy |
Martyn Chipperfield | Earth and Environment | Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry | Atmospheric science |
Flora Chitalu | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Bioenergy |
Benjamin Chong | Electronic and Electrical Engineering | Control using Electronics in Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems | |
Anubhav Choudhary | Leeds University Business School | Research Fellow | Climate finance analytics |
Charisma Choudhury | Institute for Transport Studies | Chair in Behaviour Modelling | Modelling individual decisions involving climate change; Using big data for modelling climate change related decisions |
Andreas Chrysanthou | Earth and Environment | Visiting Researcher | Atmospheric Physics, climate modelling, climate dynamics, atmospheric chemistry. |
Philip Churchman | Institute for Transport Studies | PhD researcher | Road freight decarbonisation |
Iain Clacher | Leeds University Business School | Professor of Pensions and Finance | Climate finance; Climate and environmental risk analytics for finance |
Connor Clayton | Earth and Environment / Physics | Priestley PhD researcher | Co-benefits of a low carbon economy; air quality and health |
Ioana Colfescu | Earth and Environment | NCAS Senior Research Scientist | |
Lisa Collins | Biology | Chair in Animal Science | Livestock health and welfare, climate associated health risks and projected risks linked to changes in climate |
Daniel Colson | Geography | PhD Researcher | Researching changes in peatland environments using remote sensing methods |
David Connolly | Civil Engineering | Professor of Railway Engineering | The effect of climate change on the behaviour of transport infrastructure |
Gregory Cooke | Physics and Astronomy | PhD researcher | Researching early Earth's climate as well as exoplanet atmospheres. Understanding how different types of chemistry can affect equilibrium temperature |
Poppy Cooney | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Biofuels/bioenergy; Algal biotechnology |
Jez Coram | Media and Communication | Teaching Fellow in Digital Media Practice | Film, documentary, moving image, climate communication and social change; Capitalist Climate futures and the moving image |
Claudia Coveney | Sociology and Social Policy | Lecturer, Sociology and Social Policy | Disability inclusion, disability policy, governance, co-production, participatory governance |
Neil J. W. Crawford | Geography | Research Fellow | Climate Justice; Climate Displacement and Migration |
Adam Crawford | Law | Co-Director of the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre | Climate security |
Roger Cremades Rodeja | Earth and Environment | Urban Environmental Change | Cities, droughts, urban transformations, complexity in socio-economic systems |
Matthew Creswick | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Biomaterials, circular economy, plastics pollution, sustainable feedstocks, life cycle assessment |
Beverley Croft | Medicine | PA to Head of Leeds Institute of Medical Research; Postgraduate researcher | Business ethics and corporate social responsibility; climate change, carbon neutral and emissions |
Gumersindo Cue-Aguilar | Business | Masters student | Energy and climate policy, energy planning, electricity and carbon markets, ETS design and energy transition |
Jo Cutter | Leeds University Business School | Lecturer in Work and Employment Relations | The future of work and the transition of carbon intensive sectors; Unions and Workers environmental and climate change agents |
Fanjun Dai | Earth and Environment | Masters student | Climate adaptation |
Jack Dalton | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Climate resiliency of WASH systems, greenhouse gas generation |
Alice Damiano | Earth and Environment | Teaching Fellow | Ecological economics, decolonising economics, climate justice |
Rosie Danks | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Clouds in the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer |
Charlie Dannreuther | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Lecturer | Water quality regulation and evaluation, accountability of local authority finance officers, community based critical pedagogy |
Stella Darby | Geography | Lecturer | Community climate action |
Francesca Darvill | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Ecosystem services |
Jeremy Davies | English | Associate Professor of English | Ecological criticism and theory |
Mark Davis | Sociology and Social Policy | Professor of Economic Sociology | Community Municipal Investments (CMIs); Alternative Finance for Net Zero transitions; Sustainable Consumption; Prosumerism |
Benjamin Davison | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow in Earth Observation of the Polar Regions | Cryosphere |
David Dawson | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor in Sustainable & Resilient Cities | Adaptation; resilience; infrastructure; flooding |
Juliet de Little | Geography | Visiting Fellow | Climate change adaptation, flooding, climate justice |
Innes Deans | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Bioenergy |
Pierre-Philippe Dechant | Mathematics | Curriculum Redefined Lecturer | Embedding sustainability in the curriculum |
Alice Deignan | Education | Professor of Applied Linguistics | Communication of climate science, especially to young people |
Prahelika Deka | Geography | PhD researcher | Climate futures, creative arts-based methods |
Leif Denby | Earth and Environment | Postdoctoral researcher | Convective clouds and their change in a changing climate. Co-I on EUREC4A-UK (http://eurec4a.uk/) |
Stephen Denison | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Response of the earth system to net negative emissions; emissions metrics |
Monica Di Gregorio | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor of Environmental Politics and Governance | Environmental politics and development; climate policy, environmental movements and policy networks |
Adele Dixon | Biology | PhD researcher | Assessing ecological responses and coral reef vulnerability to climate change |
Steven Dobbie | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor: Atmospheric Physics | Geoengineering and crop yields and failures; High impact weather and crop yields and failures |
Rachel Dobson | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Impact of climate change on migratory crop pests in Africa |
Emma Docherty | Geography | PhD researcher | Thermal sensitivity of tropical trees |
Fanhui Dong | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Disaster and community-based disaster management |
Andrew Dougill | Earth and Environment | Executive Dean of Faculty of Environment | |
Valerie Dupont | Chemical and Process Engineering | Reader in Low Carbon Energy | Limiting the negative impacts of heat and power systems |
Gary Dymski | Business | Professor of Applied Economics | Public policy, political economy, money and banking, macroeconomics |
Mohamed Edokali | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Water treatment and purification |
Victor Efren | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Energy, CO2 capture and plastic pollution |
Hannah Ensaff | Food Science and Nutrition | Lecturer in Nutrition | Sustainable food choice; Nutrition interventions promoting sustainable food choice (specifically based on choice architecture) |
William Evans | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Monitoring the responses of insect communities to climate change using radar technology; Improving climate/meteorological forecasting by isolating and removing insect 'noise' within weather radar data |
Barbara Evans | Civil Engineering | Professor of Public Health Engineering | Climate resilient sanitation, greenhouse gas emissions from sanitation, health impacts of climate-related flooding and urban services. |
Han Fang | Civil Engineering | Lecturer in Structural Engineering | Low-carbon infrastructures for climate change mitigation and sustainability |
David Ferguson | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor | Geochemical and geochronological methods to investigate magmatic and volcanic processes |
Jason Ferns | Chemical & Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Bioenergy; emission reduction - improving air quality; using more sustainable transportation fuels |
Sheridan Few | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Urban Energy Systems | Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty; Sustainable Transport Systems; Low Carbon Electricity Systems; Energy Access; Solar Power; Energy Storage |
Richard Fewster | Geography | PhD researcher | Climate change impact modelling |
Declan Finney | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Convection-permitting climate modelling; Eastern Africa climate; Lightning, atmospheric chemistry and climate change |
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Landscape restoration (carbon and water) |
Catriona Flesher | Law, Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Loss and damage, climate law, human rights impacts of climate change |
Judith Ford | Geography | Research Fellow | Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from farming |
Polly Foster | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Ice-nucleating particle research, aerosol science, atmospheric science |
Markus Fraundorfer | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Lecturer in Global Governance | Global Governance; Global Environmental Challenges |
Bryony Freer | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Antarctic ice shelf grounding line migration (linked to changing mass balance of Antarctic ice sheet, driven by climatic forcing) |
Ahmed Gailani | Chemical and Process Engineering | Research Fellow in Industrial Decarbonisation | Capacity Markets, Industrial Decarbonisation, Battery modelling, bottom-up modelling |
Marcelo Galdos | Earth and Environment | Visiting Research Fellow | The use of crop, soil and climate modelling to assess mitigation and adaptation strategies, focusing on climate smart agriculture |
Joe Gallear | Earth & Environment | PhD researcher | Climate impacts on crop production. Crop climate modelling |
Alice Garvey | Earth and Environment | PhD Researcher | Spatially just energy transitions; climate change mitigation towards net zero; regional decarbonisation; industrial decarbonisation policy |
Sifan Ge | Law | Masters student | Law |
Maximilian Gerrath | Department of Marketing | Associate Professor of Marketing | Communications, marketing (focus on Influencer Marketing) |
Shahla Ghobadi | Leeds University Business School | Professor in Information Management | Climate change activism; policy inclusiveness |
Verdiana Giannetti | Leeds University Business School | Lecturer | Companies' responses to climate change |
Usman Gilani | Leeds University Business School | Assistant Professor in Banking and Finance | Sustainable/green banking finance, climate risk banking models |
Francesca Giliberto | Leeds University Business School | Research Fellow | Cultural heritage and climate change |
Emanuel Gloor | Geography | Professor, Global Biogeochemical Cycles | |
Graeme Gooday | Philosophy, Religion and History of Science | Professor of the History of Science and Technology | History of Energy, especially the history of electrification. Collaboration with Science Museum Group on related public engagement issues |
Simon Goodman | Biology | Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology | Climate impacts on biodiversity; ice-breeding seals; Caspian Sea environment and ecology; evolutionary adaptation |
Hamish Gordon | Earth and Environment | Postdoctoral researcher | Aerosol-cloud interactions and radiative forcing; Aerosol nucleation and its effect on climate |
Caitlin Gough | Physics and Astronomy | PhD researcher | Martian ionosphere, planet habitability |
Andy Gouldson | Earth and Environment | Professor of Environmental Policy | Environmental and climate policy, low carbon development |
Alan Grainger | Geography | Senior Lecturer in Global Change and Policy | Tropical forests, deforestation, land use change, biodiversity and carbon stores |
Sam Grainger | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate services |
Catherine Graves | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | My project is on "the role of virtual reality to catalyse pro-environmental behaviour change", and links to climate change mitigation measures |
Lauren Gregoire | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | Ice-sheet – climate interactions ; past rapid sea level rise and abrupt climate change |
Stephen Griffiths | Mathematics | Lecturer in Applied Mathematics | Atmosphere-ocean fluid dynamics; Ocean tides, paleotides, and sea level numerical modelling |
Michael Grimes | Geography | PhD researcher | Proglacial landscape evolution in Northeast Greenland. Climate change and its impact on glaciers, meltwater and sediment discharge |
Anna Gugan | Earth and Environment | Natural Capital Valuation Officer | Contribution of trees to climate mitigation. |
Hisham Hafez | Civil Engineering | Research Fellow | Sustainable building materials and design |
Tom Haines-Doran | Institute for Transport Studies | Research Fellow | Transport decarbonisation, social movements |
Abdur Rahim Hamidi | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Climate change; flooding; vulnerability; resilience; adaptation; governance |
Margo Hanson | Earth and Environment | Research Manager: Energy, Climate Change & Sustainability | Margo has managed the administration of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) at Leeds since its launch in 2008, working closely with CCCEP's Director and Deputy Director at Leeds and colleagues at LSE. |
Rachel Harcourt | Business / Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Human dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation; communications, media and the public discourse; social decision making and public engagement; behaviour change; applied use of narratives in analysis and communications; futures work; governance and policy; climate change in the arts and humanities. |
Connie Harpur | Geography | PhD researcher | Glaciers and ice sheets; ice-marginal lakes in Greenland; remote sensing |
Chris Hassall | Biology | Associate Professor of Biology | Climate impacts on freshwater ecosystems, aquatic thermal microclimates, insect phenological and distributional change |
Robin Hayward | Earth and Environment | LEAF Communications and Engagement Officer | Science communication and outreach; degradation and restoration of forests |
Alan Haywood | Earth and Environment | Professor of Palaeoclimate Modelling | Earth's environmental/climatic history, model assessment, scenarios for future climate change |
Dwayne Heard | Chemistry | Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry | Hydroxyl radical; uptake of gases onto aerosols; kinetics and photochemistry of atmospheric processes |
Tim Heaton | Mathematics | Professor of Applied Statistics | Radiocarbon Dating; Calibration; Understanding Earth System; Archaeology |
Eva Heinen | Institute for Transport Studies | Visiting Professor | Cycling, bicycle use, travel behaviour change, active travel, sustainable transport |
Ana Heitor | Civil Engineering | Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering | Impact of climate change in geostructures with particular reference to transport infrastructure and heritage assets |
Thirze Hermans | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate change resilience/adaptation/mitigation. Agriculture/Food Security |
Kilian Hermes | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Satellite remote sensing, mineral dust uplift, aeolian mineral dust |
Luke Higgins | Chemical and Process Engineering | EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow | Role of soil organic carbon plays in earth system modelling, and biochar-based potential carbon capture technologies, using XAFS techniques |
Daniel Hill | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Global Change Modelling | Palaeoclimate, climate modelling, cryosphere, ecosystems |
Dominique Hirsz | Biology | PhD researcher | Effect of temperature of wheat floral development |
Jennifer Hodbod | Earth and Environment | Lecturer of Environment and Development | Climate mitigation and adaptation in food systems |
David Hodgson | Earth and Environment | Professor of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy | Sea-level rise / change; Palaeocene / Eocene thermal maximum |
Anna Hogg | Earth and Environment | Professor of Earth Observation | Earth observation of the cryosphere, ice sheets, Antarctica, Greenland, ice velocity |
Joseph Holden | Geography | Chair of Physical Geography, Director of water@leeds | Processes associated with the hydrology and carbon dynamics of peatlands under environmental change |
Will Homoky | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor of Geochemistry | Oceanography and the carbon cycle |
Katy Honour | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Mainly interested in researching the use of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. Afforestation and reforestation for carbon capture |
Miranda Horne | Computing | PhD researcher | Physics informed machine learning for fluid dynamics problems |
Matt Howard | English | Douglas Caster Fellow in Poetry | Poetry |
Xinyi Huang | Earth and Environment | Masters student | Ice nucleation |
Graham Huggan | English | Professor | |
Nicholas Humphries | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Sustainable agriculture; environmental geochemistry; environmental microbiology; water protection; flood risk management; waste management |
Ishfaq Hussain Malik | Geography | Research Fellow | Climate change adaptation, vulnerability and Indigenous communities |
Paul Hutchings | Civil Engineering | Lecturer in Water, Sanitation and Health | Mitigation, adaptation and resilience in water and sanitation |
Leonie Hyde-Smith | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Climate resilience of urban water and sanitation services; Affordability of "climate proof" urban water and sanitation services; Costs of adaptation |
Ejiro Matilda Ikoko | Institute for Transport Studies | PhD researcher | Gender and Smart Transport |
Sarah Irwin | Sociology and Social Policy | Professor of Sociology | Public perceptions and values relating to climate change; public engagement and policy |
Beth Irwin-Jones | Earth and Environment | Masters student | Climate as a social and political problem as well as physical. Sea level rise, adaptation and mitigation |
Ornella Iuorio | Civil engineering | Associate Professor of Architecture nd Structures | Embodied carbon of construction, design for deconstruction |
Diana Ivanova | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Carbon footprint assessment, decent living standards, consumption |
Lawrence Jackson | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow in Modelling African Climate Dynamics | Atmospheric convection and dynamics in the tropics, precipitation, geoengineering |
Tom Jackson | Media and Communication | Lecturer in Digital Media, Director of International Activities | My research is not specifically related to climate change but I am developing projects which explore the potential of studying it using immersive tech |
Clare James | Law | PhD researcher | Right to food as population increases and agriculture is both effected and also contributes to climate change |
Rebecca Jarman | Languages, Cultures and Societies | Associate Professor of Latin American Studies | Cultural history of responses to urban landslides in the Andes (Caracas, Bogota, Medellin, Cali) from the 1920s onwards |
Hazel Jeffery | Earth and Environment (NCAS) | Knowledge Integration | ESM and knowledge integration |
Sarah Jenkins | Leeds University Business School | Lecturer in Applied Decision Making | Communication of risk and uncertainty; weather and climate information |
Paul Jensen | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Business, Environment and Development | Industrial Ecology; Circular Economy; Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Infrastructure; Sustainable Regional Development |
Amethyst Johnson | Earth & Environment | PhD Student | Tropical cyclone intensification, severe convective storms, global distribution of tornado environments, atmospheric electrification |
Jill Johnson | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Understanding uncertainty in complex cloud and aerosol models, and how uncertainty feeds through to climate-related quantities such as forcing |
Ruth Joo | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Linkage of Global Carbon Markets |
Keven Joyal-Desmarais | Psychology | Lecturer in Psychology | Behaviour change, communication-based interventions, human motivation |
Sara Kaizuka | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | PhD researcher | Just transition, regional development |
James Kaizuka | Languages, Cultures and Societies | PhD researcher | Overseas development assistance, traditional and non-traditional security linkages, climate diplomacy |
Teodor Kalpakchiev | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Sustainability governance, nutrients, policy-making in the EU, external affairs in the EU, sustainability governance, socio-technical transformation; nutrients-climate nexus |
Arundhati Kalyan | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Large-scale atmospheric and climate dynamics, tropical basin interactions, teleconnections, seasonal to decadal climate variability and prediction |
Munasir Kamal | English | PhD researcher | Energy |
Gulbanu Kaptan | Business | Associate Professor in Behavioural Decision Making | Designing behaviour change interventions to reduce consumer food waste, upcycling food, public acceptance of novel and sustainable food technologies |
Casey Kavaliauskas | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Carbon Capture and Storage |
Richard Keane | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow and Met Office Senior Scientist | Indian Monsoon; Global atmospheric modelling; Convection parameterisation |
Joseph Kelly | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Geothermal energy |
Eric Kemp-Benedict | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor of Ecological Economics and Programme Lead, Ecological Economics MSc | Ecological macroeconomics |
Declan Kenny | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | PhD researcher | The political theory of climate change |
Hannah Kent | Business | PhD researcher | Resilience to climate change in critical infrastructure |
Jo Kershaw | Computing | PhD researcher | Geophysics |
Effie Kesidou | Business | Professor of Economics of Innovation & Sustainability | Eco-innovations/Environmental innovations; Green patents; International Sustainability Standards; CSR performance; Sustainability of City-regions |
Amirul Khan | Civil Engineering | Lecturer of Environmental Fluid Mechanics | Turbulent flow and particle dispersion modelling |
Arjun Khara | Design | Deputy Head of School of Design | Designing government communications and citizen experiences around climate change issues |
Laura Kiely | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | The effects of tropical fire emissions on air quality and climate |
Lena Kilian | Geography | PhD researcher | Consumption-based household emissions (UK) |
Vasiliki Kioupi | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Sustainable Curriculum | Climate change education, climate anxiety, education for sustainable development |
Megan Klaar | Geography | Associate Professor | Water resource management and policy, extreme hydrological events (floods and droughts), natural flood management |
Robert Knifton | Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies | UAF in Museums, Galleries & Heritage | Fashion/Art/Design links to climate change |
Ziko Konwar | Business | Assistant Professor of International Business | SDG 12 and multinational enterprises, Cross country stakeholder reactions to corporate environmental sustainability |
Dicle Kortantamer | Civil Engineering | Lecturer in Project Management | Leading in conditions of urgency, leading in conditions of radical uncertainty, organising towards a non-rigid deadline |
Kjell Kühne | Geography | PhD researcher | Keeping fossil fuels in the ground; Fossil gas finance; fossil fuel revenue |
Bill Kunin | Biology | Professor of Ecology, Deputy Head of School | Plants - pollinator - herbivores interactions, conservation biology, community ecology and biogeographic issues |
William Lamb | Earth and Environment | Visiting Fellow | Climate change mitigation; emissions trends and drivers; climate discourses |
Rob Lawlor | Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied | Lecturer in Applied Ethics | Ethics of climate change: climate change and engineers; professional responsibilities; lessons from history (slavery and rationing), economics |
Iain Lawson | Food Science and Nutrition | PhD researcher | Nanopesticdes, mycorrhizal fungi and sustainable agriculture |
Milan Lazecky | Earth and Environment | Scientific Algorithm Developer and Programmer | Earth Observation using SAR satellites: InSAR subsidence monitoring (excessive groundwater pumping), PolSAR identification of forest losses |
Sam Lee | Education | Doctoral Student and Teaching Fellow in Outdoor & Environmental Education | Conceptualisations of nature, specifically the Nature-Culture Dualism and the real world effects of this conceptualisation on our collective approaches to education, conservation, ESD etc. |
Jinnawat Lertpradit | Geography | PhD researcher | Place-based education on environmental education |
Simon Lewis | Geography | Professor of Global Change Science | Global carbon cycle; land-use, forest restoration and negative emissions; science-policy interface; Anthropocene |
Kang Li | Electronic and Electrical Engineering | Professor | Smart energy systems; energy storage; energy efficiency of manufacturing processes; transportation electrification |
Wenting Li | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Adaptive facades buildings and control system |
Xiang Li | Media and Communication | PhD researcher | Global warming |
Katerina Liontou | English / Business | Priestley PhD researcher | |
Xinran Liu | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Zero carbon |
Boyu Liu | Earth and Environment | Masters student | Environmental science |
Isobel Lloyd | Geography | PhD Researcher | Quantifying N2O and CO2 fluxes from agricultural soils; identifying sustainable farming practices to minimise climate impacts; advising policy makers |
Kate Lonsdale | Earth and Environment | Senior Researcher/UK Climate Resilience Champion | climate adaptation and resilience; organisational change; systems thinking; design for learning |
Susanne Lorenz | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Climate Change Adaptation | Climate change adaptation, visualisation and communication of climate change information |
Fleur Loveridge | Civil Engineering | Professor of Geo-Energy Engineering | Climate change effects on performance and stability of earth structures and geotechnical infrastructure assets |
Zhilun Lu | Chemical and Process Engineering | Lecturer | Advance materials for energy storage and harvesting |
Yutong Lu | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Regional climate change |
Xiaoxiao Ma | English | PhD researcher | Ecocriticism; Environmental Humanities; Ecology; Landscape and literature; Romanticism |
Ali Malik | Law | Lecturer in Criminal Justice | Policing and governance |
Graham Mann | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Atmospheric Science | Aerosols, volcanic eruptions, stratospheric influences on climate, radiative forcing |
Greg Marsden | Institute for Transport Studies | Professor of Transport Governance | The governance of decarbonisation of the transport system; Local and national carbon policy for transport; Travel demand; Flexibility and disruption |
Alastair Marsh | Civil Engineering | Research Fellow | Developing low carbon construction materials, particularly cements and concretes |
Zeke Marshall | Earth and Environment | Research Assistant | Applying Thermodynamic Laws to the Energy-GDP Decoupling Problem |
John Marsham | Earth and Environment | Met Office Joint-Chair (Professor of Atmospheric Science) | Atmospheric convection; tropical meteorology; mineral dust uplift and transport; land-atmosphere interaction |
Julia Martin-Ortega | Earth and Environment | Professor of Ecological Economics | |
Christian März | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor, Biogeochemistry | Biogeochemical processes, ocean redox conditions and nutrient cycling during past greenhouse climates |
Syafiq Mat Noor | Education | Lecturer in Science and Climate Change Education | Climate change education, science education, primary science, curriculum development, evidence-based practice, inquiry-based science education, action research, participatory action research |
Anuszka Maton-Mosurska | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Community-based approaches to disaster risk reduction (including climate change adaptation); Arctic social sciences; Discourses of climate change |
Amanda Maycock | Earth and Environment | Professor in Climate Dynamics | Surface climate variability, composition-climate interactions, ozone and water vapour effects |
Abigail McConnell | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Atmospheric chemistry, aerosol science |
Sean McDaniel | Politics and International Studies | Lecturer in British Politics | UK politics of climate change |
Elizabeth McGowan | Politics and International Studies | PhD researcher | Decolonising climate change adaptation and natural resource management: including indigenous knowledge in international development approaches to combat climate vulnerability. |
Amy McGuire | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow in Quaternary Palynology | Past climate change; sea-level rise; ecosystem resilience |
Elizabeth (Lizzie) McIntyre | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Climate adaptation |
James McKay | Chemical & Process Engineering | Centre Manager, EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training in Low Carbon Technologies and Bioenergy | Low Carbon Technologies (renewable energy technologies); visualising ancient environments and climates; visualising future scenarios |
Christine McKenna | Earth and Environment | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Climate modelling, large-scale atmospheric dynamics, the stratosphere |
Scott McLaughlin | Music | Associate Professor in Composition and Music Technology | Sonification, especially of irregular cyclic patterns |
Claire McLoughlin | Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science | Research Support Administrator | |
Jim McQuaid | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor of Atmospheric Composition | Measurements of atmospheric composition and air quality |
Katie McQuaid | Earth and Environment | Senior Research Fellow | Gender, sexuality, urban Africa, participatory arts, community co-production, inclusive cities |
Anna Mdee | Politics and International Studies | Professor | Water governance, politics of water allocations, sustainable agriculture |
Leslie Meier | Media and Communication | Lecturer in Media and Communication | Media and Environment; Climate Justice |
Rosario Michel-Villarreal | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Sustainability and Business | Resilience, adaptation, supply chains |
Lucie Middlemiss | Earth and Environment | Professor of Environment and Society | Environmental sociology, energy poverty, sustainable consumption, sustainable communities, environmental justice |
Benjamin Mills | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor | Role of CO2 in climate over geological timescales; Ocean mixing and anthropogenic carbon inventories |
Dave Milne | Institute for Transport Studies | Lecturer in Transport Geography | Mobility patterns, needs and behaviours |
Jan Minx | Earth and Environment | Visiting Professor of Climate Change and Public Policy | Energy, climate change and sustainable development with applications to cities and infrastructure, global supply chain networks as well as historic and future transformation processes of societies and their governance; understanding of processes at the science-policy interface |
Jyoti Mishra | Leeds University Business School | Associate Professor | Circular Economy, Sustainable Supply Chains, Green IT, Food Waste |
Neha Mittal | Earth and Environment | Senior Scientist | Climate services |
Felicity Monger | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | The impacts of semi-natural woodland on flooding in the UK |
Hazel Mooney | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Ecosystem services, trees and woodlands and land-atmosphere interactions |
Erika Moranduzzo | Law | PhD researcher | Climate refugees |
Malcolm Morgan | Institute for Transport Studies | Research Fellow in Transport and Spatial Analysis | Decarbonising transport; Cycling; Sustainable communities; Place-based decarbonisation |
Kate Morris | Design | PhD researcher | Sustainable fashion, reducing carbon and water usage within the fashion industry |
Paul Morris | Geography | Associate Professor of Biogeoscience | Climatic drivers (past, present and future) for peatland initiation, peatland carbon sequestration and changes in peatland biodiversity |
Francesca Morris | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Meteorology/geophysical fluid dynamics; the interaction between severe convection and large-scale atmospheric circulation |
Aya Moustafa | Languages, Cultures and Societies | Masters student | Translation |
Dominic Muenzel | Biology | PhD researcher | Coral reef resistance and resilience to climate change through systematic conservation planning |
Amrita Mukherjee | Law | Lecturer and Director LLM international law | International environmental law; International law; Global governance through law |
Frans Muller | Chemical and Process Engineering | Professor | Sustainability |
Phillip Murphy | Earth and Environment | Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship) | Speleothems as climate proxy, growth patterns and isotope records |
Irene Mussio | Business | Lecturer in Economics | Health, behaviour, environment, risk and uncertainty |
Mamatha Nagaraj | Physics and Astronomy | Lecturer | Functional and responsive materials for sensing applications |
Muhammad Ali Nasir | Business | Associate Professor | Ecological Economics, Green Finance |
Rizwan Nawaz | Geography | Research Fellow | Climate change and impacts on water systems |
Emily Newcombe | Biology | PhD researcher | Biodegradable food packaging, valorisation of lignocellulosic wastes |
Roaksana Firdaus Nigar | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Worked as a research assistant at the Center for Climate Change and Environmental Researcher, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Rachel Hosein Nisbet | Performance and Cultural Industries | Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Transhistorical ideas of common good, and natural law, from ecocritical perspectives. First PhD in Biogeochemistry (glacial weathering and climate change feedbacks) |
Nicole Nisbett | Politics and International Studies | Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Climate Politics | Society and climate change, social movements, normative change, climate policies |
James Norman | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Decision-making under uncertainty;Climate prediction across timescales;Novel commercial applications of earth imaging and climate information products |
Andrew Nottingham | Geography | Lecturer Ecology and Global Change & NERC IR Fellow | Terrestrial carbon cycling, tropical forests, soil carbon cycling |
Steve O’Hern | Institute for Transport Studies | Associate Professor Travel Behaviour and Analysis | |
Sarah Oakes | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Indigenous knowledge, food |
Harrison Oates | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Understanding the impact of industrial gas streams on CO2 capture solvent performance; Improving the current CCS solvent technology |
Temitayo Odeyemi | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | PhD researcher | Climate governance |
Anne Owen | Earth and Environment | Senior Research Fellow | Consumption-based accounting for emissions |
Alice Owen | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor | Domestic energy retrofit; construction industry supply chains; place-based approaches to climate action; climate-resilient business models |
Jouni Paavola | Earth and Environment | Professor of Environmental Social Science, Director of Research in the School of Earth and Environment, Co-Director of CCCEP | Environmental social science |
Daya Pandey | Mechanical Engineering | Lecturer | Bioenergy, low carbon energy systems, hydrogen, nutrient recovery, waste to energy |
Christina Papadopoulou | Business | Lecturer in Marketing | Consumer perceptions, behavioural outcomes and mindset |
Douglas Parker | Earth and Environment | Met Office Professor of Meteorology | Atmospheric dynamics; Storms; Land-atmosphere interaction; Weather forecasting; Tropics / Africa; Operational weather prediction |
Chris Paterson | Media and Communications | Professor of Global Communication | Information flow in African countries; journalism and climate information |
Karina Patricio Ferreira Lima | Law | Lecturer in Commercial Law | Climate finance; Monetary policy and climate change |
Kanhu Charan Pattnayak | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate impact science |
Eric Peterson | Biology | Visiting Research Fellow | Future proofing built environment; water cooling urban heat islands |
Peter Petkovsek | Performance and Cultural Industries | PhD Researcher | Geomythology, Cultural and Performative Responses to Climate Crisis |
Oliver Phillips | Geography | Professor | Tropical forest and savanna plant growth, mortality, biodiversity, carbon cycle, global change responses and feedbacks |
Joanna Phillips | History | Research and Impact Development Officer | Environmental history |
Ben Pile | Biology | PhD researcher | Impacts of heatwaves in interaction with invasive species and parasites on the fundamental ecosystem process of detritivory in freshwater ecosystems. |
Mike Pilling | Chemistry | Emeritus Professor | Atmospheric chemistry, especially oxidation capacity and tropospheric ozone formation |
Andrew Pimm | Chemical and Process Engineering | Postdoctoral researcher | Energy storage; Green steel; Energy system modelling |
Luba Pirgova-Morgan | Languages, Cultures and Societies | Postdoctoral researcher | Environmental behaviour, perceptions of climate change, climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies |
Desy Ayu Pirmasari | Geography | Research Fellow | PDRA for Indonesia for GENERATE project Creative and Gender transformative action on climate change in Uganda and Indonesia |
Jonathan Pitches | Performance and Cultural Industries | Professor of Theatre and Performance | Mountain (Cultural) Studies, specifically in relation to Theatre and Performance; Eco-Criticism; Plays and Performances which address climate change |
Francis K. Poitier | Medicine | Teaching Fellow in International Health | Public health in small island states, intersection of climate-related health illnesses, climate-resilient health systems |
Craig Poku | Earth and Environment | Visiting Researcher | Aerosol-cloud interactions |
Oliver Pollard | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Global sea level rise; Sea level rise in the North Sea; Melting ice sheets; Glacial isostatic adjustment |
Andi Misbahul Pratiwi | Geography | PhD Researcher | Gender, technology, and climate change |
Lea Prevost | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Aerosol physics |
Alejandro Romero Prieto | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Climate change modelling |
Kexin Qiu | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Aviation emissions, aerosol-cloud interactions |
Duncan Quincey | Geography | Professor of Glaciology | Cryospheric change; Hazard development; Water resources |
Claire Quinn | Earth and Environment | Professor in Natural Resource Management | Environmental change and sustainability, social and agriculture interface |
Morven Rae-Seaman | Biology | PhD researcher | Coral reef adaptation to warming temperatures |
Alifa Rahmaningrum | PhD researcher | Agriculture; Food Security; Land Use; Freshwater Use; Planetary Boundaries | |
Mathilde Rainard | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Energy transition justice |
Sam Ramsden | Geography | Impact Translation Fellow | Flooding, place-making, energy poverty, food growing |
Mallika Rana | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Sustainable product development, CO2 utilisation |
Alex Rap | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor in Atmospheric Science | Radiation modelling, biosphere-atmosphere interactions |
Imogen Rattle | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow in Local Low Carbon Industrial Strategy | How people engage with complex environmental issues both on and offline, and how we can govern the low carbon energy transition to deliver just outcomes |
Christopher Rayner | Chemistry | Professor of Organic Chemistry | Chemistry, low energy capture methods and utilisation of carbon dioxide; chemistry relevant to carbon capture and storage |
Carly Reddington | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Aerosol effects on climate; air quality-climate co-benefits |
Simon Rees | Civil Engineering | Professor of Building Energy Systems | Building energy and renewable systems |
Jasper Rees | Biology | PhD researcher | Environmental stress, biodiversity loss, insects, fertility limits |
Leighton Regayre | Earth and Environment | Senior Research Fellow | Effect of aerosol forcing on large-scale climate phenomena on the decadal timescale |
Matthias Revers | Media and Communication | Associate Professor of Political Communication | Polarization and depolarization of climate discussions |
Clare Richardson-Barlow | Languages, Cultures and Societies | Lecturer | Economics, Energy & Trade Policy; International political economy in theory and practice; Political economy dimensions of sustainability; Variable renewable energy integration; ASEAN governance; East Asian economic development; cross-border electricity trade |
Harland Rivas Cooper | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Urban climate governance |
Niamh Robertson | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Atmospheric chemistry, secondary organic aerosols, volatile organic compounds |
Suzanne Robinson | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Climate change, ocean circulation |
Katy Roelich | Earth and Environment / Civil Engineering | Co-Director of Sustainability Research Institute | Decision making; public perceptions; participation; uncertainty; energy; infrastructure |
Will Rolls | Earth and Environmnet | Research Assistant | Forest management and carbon; land management; unconventional biomass fuels; biomass use and supply chains |
Yvan Romé | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Ocean modelling; Ice sheet modelling; Paleoclimate research |
Daniel Romeu | Medicine | Academic Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry | Climate and mental health |
Karl Ropkins | Institute for Transport Studies | Senior Research Fellow | Air Quality and Environmental Impact; Instrument and Software Development Realworld Performance of In-coming Vehicle Technologies; Impact of Air Quality Interventions, Low Emission Zones, Fleet Upgrades |
Andrew Ross | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor in Dynamical Meteorology | Boundary layer meteorology, mountain meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, including how these will change in a changing climate |
Alistair Rucklidge | Mathematics | Professor of Applied Mathematics | Nonlinear dynamics, including applications to fluid systems |
Graham Rush | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Sea-level change; Oceanography; Ice-sheet change |
Luca Sabini | Civil Engineering | Associate Professor in Project Management | Conflict of interests over sustainability objectives |
Lisma Safitri | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Evapotranspiration, water balance, soil moisture, water footprint, water use efficiency |
Paola Sakai | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Sustainability Economics and Policy | Adaptation and resilience of the water sector and SMEs to climate change, low-carbon future options for cities |
Ali Saleh | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Low-carbon concrete |
Blaise Sales | English | PhD researcher | Ecocriticism in world-literature |
Susannah Sallu | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor of Environment and Development | Climate compatible development; rural livelihood dynamics; climate change adaptation; social-ecological resilience |
Jodie Salter | Philosophy, Religion and History of Science | PhD researcher | Religious understandings of and responses to climate change; faith-based organisation and religious NGO engagement with UNFCC/COP events/UNEP |
Ahmed Sameer Younus | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Reducing embodied carbon, life cycle assessment |
Rebecca Sarku | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow in Climate Change and Food Systems | Food systems, climate services and climate risk and vulnerability |
Daniel Sault | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Carbon capture and storage |
Malcolm Sawyer | Business | Emeritus Professor of Economics | Ecological macroeconomics |
Jennifer Saxby | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow in Tropical Meteorology | Forecasting the structure, intensity, and associated hazards of tropical cyclones, which are expected to intensify due to anthropogenic climate change |
Giulia Scarpa | Earth and Environment | Priestley PhD researcher | |
Sven L M Schroeder | Chemical and Process Engineering | Bragg Centenary Chair | Sustainable manufacturing and transport |
Felix Schulz | Leeds University Business School | Research Fellow | Values and climate policy support; policy instruments; the role of work(ers) in a just transition |
Juliane Schwendike | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor in Meteorology | Large-scale circulation in the tropics, tropical cyclones, convection in the tropics |
Cat Scott | Earth and Environment | University Academic Fellow in Biosphere-Climate Interactions | Impact of forests on climate, aerosol science, atmospheric composition, radiative transfer |
Jan Selby | Politics and International Studies | Professor of International Politics and Climate Change | Conflict and security; migration; water; methane; politics of mitigation; international politics; political ecology |
Heather Selley | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Using earth observation to map elevation and velocity changes of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets |
Peter Sheaf | Business | PhD researcher | Conspicuous consumption i.e. the degree to which people buy things not because they need them but because they want to demonstrate their social status |
Yong Sheng | Civil Engineering | Associate Professor | CO2 storage, unconventional coal mining, green energy |
Hannah Sherwood | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Impact of Biomass use/land use change on earth-atmosphere interactions in tea/coffee cultivating regions |
Jeni Sidwell | Biology | PhD researcher | Conservation genomics |
Anne Jelmar Sietsma | Geography | PhD Researcher | Climate change adaptation tracking and trying to integrate machine learning approaches into this. Climate change; adaptation Climate impacts; Adaptation tracking; The science-policy nexus |
Ben Silver | Earth and Environment | PhDresearcher | Quantifying the air quality co-benefits of climate change mitigation strategies in the Pearl River Delta, China |
Molly Simmons | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Landscape Scale Restoration of UK Uplands |
Brigita Simonaviciene | Plant Sciences | PhD researcher | Plant cell well mechanism controlling symplastic transport during plant response to heat and water withdrawal |
Kate Simpson | English, and Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Extinction studies, role of literature in the interpretation of mass extinction events, poetry as a paleontologist, reading as an ecological act |
Ranjay Singh | Earth and Environment | LBS Visiting Fellow | Climate vulnerability, multiple stressors, agricultural adaptation and climate policy implications are local level |
Jasjit Singh | Philosophy, Religion and History of Science | Associate Professor | Minority ethnic communities and narratives of climate change; Religion and climate change; Transmission of narratives and issues |
Pammi Sinha | Design | Associate Professor | Sustainability; post consumer textile waste; circular economy; net zero |
Sajid Siraj | Business | Associate Professor | The use of big data analytics and structured decision making techniques for climate-related decisions and policies |
Yim Ling Siu | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor of Environmental Risk Management | Environmental risk assessment and modelling; risk perceptions, mitigation and adaptation policy evaluations |
Benjamin Skinner | Performance and Cultural Industries | PhD researcher | Touch as a means of communicating our current climate crisis; The (potential) sensory perception of skin |
Stefan Skrimshire | Philosophy, Religion and History of Science | Associate Professor in Theology and Religious Studies | Religion and Climate Change; Eco-Theology; Environmental Philosophy |
Tom Slater | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | The Cryosphere; Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets; Sea level rise; Earth observation |
Ross Slater | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Satellite observations of Antarctic ice velocity, ice-ocean interactions, sea level rise |
Thomas Sloan | Earth & Environment | Forest Science and Policy Fellow | Peatland carbon accumulation and loss; Forestry carbon sequestration |
Ben Smeaton-Russell | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Greenhouse gas emissions from sanitation systems |
Elle Smith | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Urban forests |
Laura Smith | Earth and Environment | Lecturer | Extractive industries, critical minerals, low carbon supply chains |
Andrew Smith | Institute for Transport Studies | Professor of Transport Performance and Economics | Infrastructure cost modelling; rail and decarbonisation |
Chris Smith | Visiting Fellow | Climate projection and climate modelling; radiative forcing; radiative transfer | |
Fiona Smith | Law | Professor of International Economic Law | Agricultural trade; food security; food sovereignty; climate and health; regional trade agreements; EU Common Agricultural Policy |
James Souter | Politics and International Studies | Lecturer in Political Theory and International Politics | Responsibilities to displaced persons (including the environmentally displaced) |
Viktoria Spaiser | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Associate Professor in Sustainability Research and Computational Social Science | Sustainable Development Goals; general sustainable development; environmental behaviour |
Dominick Spracklen | Earth and Environment | Professor | Nature-based solutions (forests, reforestation, avoided deforestation) |
Oliver Stanfield | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Carbon Capture and Storage for industrial sites e.g. powerplants with new solvents with better qualities than current technology |
Monica Stenzel | Philosophy, Religion and History of Science | PhD researcher | Circular economy, sustainable textiles |
Daniel Stone | Chemistry | Associate Professor | Atmospheric chemical mechanisms |
Chris Stringer | Geography | PhD researcher | Glacier melt |
Jyoti Sudhakar Narsude | Geography | PhD researcher | Carbon sequestration in soil, plant species, land use management, agroforestry |
Andrew Sudmant | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | urban climate action; urban typologies; urban analtyics |
Trystan Surawy-Stepney | Earth and Environment | PhD Student | Studying changes to the cryosphere using synthetic aperture radar data in combination with machine learning |
Maria Luisa Taccari | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Groundwater flow modelling |
Marie-Thérèse Talensby | Philosophy, Religion and History of Science | PhD researcher | Experiences of eco-anxiety and eco-grief in climate change activism |
Anne Tallontire | Earth and Environment | Professor of Sustainability and Business | Vulnerability; adaptation; transformation (especially for agricultural producers); carbon market standards (eg FairTrade Climate Standard) |
Harrison Tan | Biology | PhD researcher | Interaction between climate change and human activities, population demography of ice-breeding pinnipeds |
Wenguang Tang | Geography | PhD researcher | Tree growth, Carbon sink, nitrogen deposition, greenhouse gas emissions |
Fareeha Tariq | Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine | Postdoctoral Research Assistant | Health and disease |
James Tate | Institute for Transport Studies | Associate Professor | Transport and the Environment; urban air quality; road transport real driving emissions; Big transport telematics data; Low Emission Zones, Strategies and Vehicles. |
Peter Taylor | Chemical & Process Engineering | Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems | Energy and climate change; energy technology policy; energy technology transitions; low-carbon energy technology; energy systems modelling; energy storage; energy use; international energy policy |
Andrea Taylor | Business / Earth and Environment | Associate Professor | Risk perception, communication, decision making and preparedness for climate change and extreme weather |
Edward Taylor | Earth and Environment | MRes student | Sea level reconstruction |
Liam Taylor | Geography | Lecturer | Glaciology; hazards; Earth observation; climate science |
Vanessa Ternes | Institute for Transport Studies | PhD researcher | I research how the transport sector can decarbonise and meet its emission targets while considering questions of fairness and equity |
Harriet Thew | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Climate Change in the School of Earth and Environment | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, climate change education |
Daisy Thomas | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | My PhD focuses on the emissions from hybrid vehicles using biofuel/petrol blends, so I'm focussing on emissions from low-carbon transport methods |
Rebecca Thompson | Biological Sciences | Head FBS Research Facilities | Interested in how we can embed sustainability into our research facilities operations |
Lisa Thorley | Politics and International Studies | Deputy Director for Student Education, Lecturer in Gender and International Development Practice | How climate change impacts women in agrarian communities, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa |
Steven Tobias | Mathematics | Professor of Applied Mathematics, Head of Applied Mathematics | Statistical methods in geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, sub-grid modelling; effect of solar variability on climate |
Valeria Tolis | Earth and Environment | Teaching Fellow in Environmental Policy and Governance | Climate change mitigation, policy and governance |
Betzabé Torres Olave | Education | Research Fellow | Climate justice, science education, critical imagination |
Paloma Trascasa-Castro | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | El Niño-Southern Oscillation, large-scale climate dynamics, intra-basin teleconnections, surface climate impacts |
Emma Trott | English | Teaching Fellow in Contemporary Literature | Critical plant studies; animal studies; environmental humanities; ecopoetry; environmental ethics |
Josh Turner | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Using System Data to Reduce GHG Emissions from Heat Pumps in Operation (Heat pumps are a low carbon method of space/water heating and cooling) |
Adam Tyson | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Politics | Sustainability and forestry in Southeast Asia; palm oil production; rural development |
Rodanthi Tzanelli | Sociology and Social Policy | Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology | Popular imaginaries of climate change in film and the arts; utopian planning and transdisciplinarity in tourism and travel theory; representations of disaster; public cultures of climate change |
Kerrie Unsworth | Business | Chair of Organisational Behaviour | Employee pro-environmental behaviour change, SME green transformation |
Christine Unterhitzenberger | Civil Engineering | Associate Professor in Project Management | Sustainable project management |
Alexander Valavanis | Electronic and Electrical Engineering | Associate Professor | Terahertz instrumentation for gas spectroscopy; THz satellite instrumentation |
James Van Alstine | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor of Environmental Policy | Climate change policy; Climate justice; Climate compatible development; Energy policy |
Sven Van Loo | Physics and Astronomy | Lecturer of Astrophysics | Ammonia-aerosol combustion |
Padmaja Vasudev | Chemical and Process Engineering | Research Fellow | Sustainability adopting synthesis with less carbon and organic wastes; interested in the correlation between climate change, net zero and sustainability |
Anne Velenturf | Civil Engineering / Earth and Environment | Senior Research Fellow in Circular Economy | Circular Economy, Resource Recovery from Waste; Oil & Gas Decommissioning; Sustainable Offshore Wind |
Costas Velis | Civil Engineering | Lecturer in Resource Efficiency Systems | Waste and resources management, recycling, circular economy, open burning of solid waste, biogenic fuels, waste-derived fuels |
Ashley Victoria | Physics and Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Process optimisation, sustainable composites, biopolymers, reducing resources and circularity |
Alexandra-Elena Vitel | Earth and Environment | PhD Student | Energy; Transport; Behavior Change; Consumer Segmentation; Demand Management |
Jefim Vogel | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | The role of social and physical provisioning systems for climate mitigation in the context of human well-being and international equity |
Jochen Voss | Mathematics | Lecturer | Statistical modelling, uncertainty quantification |
Lorna Waddington | History | Lecturer | Climate wars/climate changes; genocide/ethnic cleansing/violence |
Sania Wadud | Business | Senior Research Fellow | Climate econometrics, climate change and energy transition |
Zia Wadud | Institute for Transport Studies | Associate Professor | Personal carbon trading; residential and transport energy use choices; carbon decomposition analysis |
Laura Wainman | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Volcano-climate interactions, environmental hazards |
Christopher Walker | Civil Engineering | PhD Researcher | Geotechnical Engineering; Transport Infrastructure; Highways; Railway; Compacted Soils; Unsaturated Soil Mechanics; Earthworks; Embankments; Cuttings |
Richard Walker | Institute of Transport Studies | Visiting Research Fellow | Transport Decarbonisation relating to transport demand; spatial development; transport planning and 'place-based' transport decarbonisation |
James Wallace | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Climate resilience of vulnerable communities |
Hong Wang | Geography | PhD researcher | Climate change impacts on streamflow seasonality and freshwater biodiversity |
Keeran Ward | Chemical and Process Engineering | Lecturer in Chemical Engineering | Sustainable Supply Chain Management |
Fumiko Watanabe | Earth and Environment | Guest Researcher | Paleoclimate |
C. Scott Watson | UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | School of Geography | Water resources, flood hazard, glacier loss, glacial lake development |
Nicholas Watson | Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Food | ||
Charlotte Weaver | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Impacts of land use change from bioenergy expansion on global biogeochemical and biophysical effects on climate |
Xingjie Wei | Business | Assistant Professor in Business Analytics & Machine Learning | data analytics, machine learning |
Miaomiao Wei | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Typhoon Prediction, Mutiple Hazard, Machine Learning, Bridge Wind Engineering |
Georgina Werkmeister | Geography | PhD researcher | How extreme temperatures might affect reproduction in tropical forest trees in Brazil |
Solomon White | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Oceanography, Satellite remote sensing, Ocean properties |
Stephen Whitfield | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor of Climate Change and Food Security | Climate change adaptation and mitigation in agri-food systems |
David Williams | Earth and Environment | Lecturer | Agriculturally driven land-use change; the climate impacts of diets and dietary choices |
Sally Wilson | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Contemporary glaciology |
Chris Wilson | Earth and Environment | Research scientist | Inverse atmospheric modelling of greenhouse gas emissions, carbon budget, methane budget, fires |
Sofie Wimble | Politics and International Relations | Masters student | Climate change conflict |
Dewa Ayu Putu Eva Wishanti | Politics and International Studies | PhD researcher | Water and sanitation, climate finance, political ecology |
Cordula Wittekind | Geography | PhD researcher | Modeling future environmental flows against the background of climate change with particular focus on adaptation of abstraction licensing systems |
Chee Yew Wong | Leeds University Business School | Professor of Supply Chain Management | Sustainable supply chain management; Environmental transparency; Environmental management system (EMS); Environmental management practices. |
Alexandra Woodford | Leeds University Business School | PhD researcher | Climate finance justice |
Kerri Woods | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Associate Professor of Political Theory | Environmental human rights; climate justice; environmental ethics |
Matthew Woolgar | History | Lecturer in Twentieth Century International History | Histories of environmental activism and policy in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia |
Alex Worsfold | History | PhD researcher | Environmental and hydrological history of the Middle East |
Katy Wright | Sociology and Social Policy | Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy | Resilience; social dimensions of climate change |
Bin Xu | Leeds University Business School | Associate Professor in Finance | Sustainable finance, green finance, corporate environmental performance, environmental violations |
Weiyi Yao | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | From food waste in Higher Education and Primary/Secondary Schools to Truck fuels – A sociotechnical and technoeonomical appraoch |
Jun Ye | Civil Engineering | Lecturer in Structural Engineering | Sustainable construction; extreme loading |
Danielle Young | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | UKRI Postdoctoral Fellow (Horizon Guarantee) | Solar geoengineering and climate governance |
Sherif Youssef | Earth and Environment | Lecturer | Political economy, energy policy |
Jinpeng Yue | Earth and Environment | Masters student | Meteorology |
Cheng Zhao | Earth and Environment | Masters student | Effects of air pollution on climate |
Tianning Zhao | Earth and Environment | Masters student | Ecological macroeconomics |
Sibongile Zimba | Biology | PhD researcher | Plant science, climate change adaptation and resilience; developing of climate resilient crops for sustainable food production systems |
Pazit Ziv | Geography | Research Support Manager | Water, atmospheric research, meteorology, humidity, hydrology |
Guy Ziv | Geography | Chair in Socio-Environmental Systems | Ecosystem services, agri-environmental schemes, carbon farming |