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 | Pedagogies of puppetry practice in climate change activism |
Aayisha Ahmad | Earth and Environment | Student | Modelling |
Salma Alarefi | Electronic and Electrical Engineering | Teaching Fellow | Decarbonisation of cities; renewable assisted EV charging stations; sustainable electronics engineering; sustainable electrical engineering |
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 | Professor of Transport and Energy | Transport and mobility, uptake of low carbon vehicle technology, mobility demand and long term trends, theories of practice and behaviour |
Louise Anderson | Biology | PhD researcher | Ecological and human management responses to climate change in coral reef ecosystems. Fostering climate resilience on coral reefs. |
Christina Andreadou | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Bioenergy; Biomass; Waste to energy; Life cycle analysis; climate change mitigation; climate change; 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation biofuels |
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 |
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 | Associate 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 (2018 intake) | |
Manpreet Aulakh | Earth and Environment | Student | Climate change mitigation |
Naila Azhar | Earth and Environment | Masters Student | Sustainability, carbon management, renewable energy, biogas, circular economy, climate change, food security, climate security |
Peyman Babakhani | Earth and Environment | | Climate change mitigation; Geoengineering |
Akintunde Babatunde | Civil Engineering | Associate Professor | Systems and processes; engineering and technology; people and places |
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 |
Marina Baldissera Pacchetti | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | History and Philosophy of Climate Science; Climate Change Adaptation |
Steven Banwart | Earth and Environment | Integrating Chair in Soil / Agriculture / Water Research | Reactive processes in soil and groundwater, Earth’s Critical Zone |
Myrna Barjau Perez Milicua | Biology | PhD researcher | Impacts of extreme events (warming and drought) and invasive species on biodiversity and function of freshwater ecosystems |
Anna Barker | Law | Associate Professor | Future is public green space |
Will Barker | Geography | Postdoctoral Fellow in Ecology | Tropical ecology, nutrient cycling, biotic interactions and carbon sequestration |
Natasha Barlow | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor | Sea-level changes over a range of timescales |
David Barns | Earth and Environment | Postdoctoral researcher | 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 |
Fiona Beckett | English | Professor of Contemporary Poetics | Ecopoetics; 'Plant blindness' in Climate-Change Discourse; Rare Plants |
Ajay Gajanan Bhave | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate change adaptation; Water resources; Decision making under uncertainty |
Nadhir Ben Rached | Mathematics | Lecturer in Applied Statistics | Rare events simulations |
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 |
Sofia Biffi | Geography | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Agroecology |
Cathryn Birch | Earth and Environment | Associate 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 |
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 |
Samuel Birch | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Decarbonisation |
Richard Birley | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | The reduction of NOx in large scale power production; Reduction of SO2 and CO2 |
Steven Boeing | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Dynamics and thermodynamics of moist convection; Parametrisation of convection; Turbulence; Boundary-layer meteorology |
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 | Politics and International Studies | PhD researcher | Energy procurement and discourse around energy transitions in South Africa |
Graham Boustead | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Production of tropospheric species, production of nitrous acid on the surface of aerosols |
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 |
Roel Brienen | Geography | Associate 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 |
Llinos Brown | Institute for Transport Studies | Research Fellow | Decarbonisation of transport system; Energy cultures; Energy behaviour; Transport behaviour; Workplace energy use; Social science research |
Aaron Brown | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Utilisation of bioenergy through anaerobic digestion |
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 |
Milena Buchs | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor in Sustainability, Economics and Low Carbon Transition | Transforming economies and wellbeing for carbon reduction; Inequality of household carbon footprints, distributional implications of carbon reduction |
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 |
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 |
James Cant | Biology | PhD researcher | The response of Coral community demographics to changing climates and bio-geographical variability |
Anastasia Cardone | English | PhD researcher | US nature writing and ecocritism; ecopoetry; birds in American literature; Henry David Thoreau as the father of American nature writing |
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 |
Aaron Carvell | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Bioenergy, providing biomass based sustainable solutions to energy needs |
Oscar Cespedes | Physics & Astronomy | Professor of Condensed Matter Physics | Internet, computing and electronics |
Andy Challinor | Earth and Environment | Professor of Climate Impacts | |
Sarah Chapman | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Impact of climate change on East Africa, particularly in regards to rainfall and agriculture |
Pippa Chapman | Geography | Professor | 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 |
Daniel Chernick | Chemical & Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Bioenergy |
Martyn Chipperfield | Earth and Environment | Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry; Director of ICAS | Atmospheric science |
Charisma Choudhury | Institute for Transport Studies | Associate Professor | Modelling individual decisions involving climate change (e.g. evacuate/not in the event of a natural disaster, migrate/not in the event of increased extreme climate events, willingness-to-pay for mitigating climate change, willingness-to-accept climate change externalities, etc.); Using big data for modelling climate change related decisions (e.g. mobile data to model migration due to climate change) |
Andreas Chrysanthou | Earth and Environment | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | 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 (2020 intake) | |
Ioana Colfescu | Earth and Environment | 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 | Associate Professor | The effect of climate change on the behaviour of transport infrastructure |
Katie Cook | Biology | PhD researcher | Conservation decisions to manage range shifts and climate change in marine environments |
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 |
Helen Coskeran | Biology | Programme Support Officer (Monitoring and Evaluation) | Monitoring and evaluating research conducted into climate smart agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa |
Liese Coulter | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate change adaptation; climate risk storylines (CRS); future-oriented climate narratives |
Angela Craddy | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Climate change decision making; Adaptation and decision making |
Neil J. W. Crawford | Geography | Research Fellow | Climate Justice; Climate Displacement and Migration |
Bart Crezee | Geography | PhD researcher | Carbon storage in peatlands of lowland tropical Africa |
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 |
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 |
Martin Dallimer | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor in Environmental Change | Urbanisation; Land use change; Biodiversity conservation; Sustainable agriculture and land degradation |
Alice Damiano | Earth and Environment | Teaching Fellow | Ecological economics, decolonising economics, climate justice |
Charlie Dannreuther | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Lecturer | Water quality regulation and evaluation, accountability of local authority finance officers, community based critical pedagogy |
Francesca Darvill | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Ecosystem services |
Jeremy Davies | English | Lecturer in English | Ecological criticism and theory |
Mark Davis | Sociology and Social Policy | Associate Professor of Sociology | Community Municipal Investments (CMIs); Alternative Finance for Net Zero transitions; Sustainable Consumption; Prosumerism |
Innes Deans | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Bioenergy |
Pierre-Philippe Dechant | Mathematics | Curriculum Redefined Lecturer | Embedding sustainability in the curriculum |
Shahab Dehghan | Electronic and Electrical Engineering | Research Fellow | Multi-Vector Energy Systems; Reliability of Energy Systems; Resiliency of Energy Systems; Smart Energy Systems |
Alice Deignan | Education | Professor of Applied Linguistics | Communication of climate science, especially to young people |
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 |
Suraje Dessai | Earth and Environment | Professor of Climate Change Adaptation | Management of climate change uncertainties, perception of climate risks and the science-policy interface in climate change impacts, adaptation and services |
Monica Di Gregorio | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Environmental Politics and Governance | Environmental politics and development; climate policy, environmental movements and policy networks |
Matthew Dickinson | Earth and Environment | MSc Student | |
Mark Diver | Earth and Environment | Masters student | |
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 |
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 |
Hannah Ensaff | Food Science and Nutrition | Lecturer in Nutrition | Sustainable food choice; Nutrition interventions promoting sustainable food choice (specifically based on choice architecture) |
Negar Naghshinehpour Esfahani | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Energy , technology and the built environment; sustainability and better waste management |
Adriane Esquivel Muelbert | Geography | Research Fellow | Tropical forest ecology; Tree drought vulnerability; Forest dynamics; Carbon cycling |
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. |
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 |
Han Fang | Civil Engineering | Lecturer in Structural Engineering | Low-carbon infrastructures for climate change mitigation and sustainability |
David Ferguson | Earth and Environment | University Academic Fellow | 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 | Research Fellow in Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty | 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 |
Rory Fitzpatrick | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Changes in high impact weather – particularly rainfall events across West Africa; Co-production of climate adaptation strategies |
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Landscape restoration (carbon and water) |
Jennifer Fletcher | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Cumulus convection and tropical dynamics |
Piers Forster | Earth and Environment | Director | |
Markus Fraundorfer | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Lecturer in Global Governance | Global Governance; Global Environmental Challenges |
Helen Freeman | Civil Engineering | Parliamentary Academic Fellow and Network Coordinator | Civil Engineering; Chemical and Process Engineering; Bragg Centre |
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 | Met Office – University Academic Fellow in Modelling Food Security and Climate Impacts | 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 |
Arianna Gialletti | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Climate Change: physical science basis, adaptation and mitigation policy |
Emanuel Gloor | Geography | Professor, Global Biogeochemical Cycles | |
Chandni Gondria | Earth and Environment | Masters student | |
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 |
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 |
Oliver Grasham | Chemical and Process Engineering | Postdoctoral researcher | Renewables; Lifecycle Analysis; Process Engineering; Green Hydrogen; Anaerobic digestion; Ammonia; Fuel Cells; Hydrothermal Carbonisation |
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 | Academic Research 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. |
Tom Haines-Doran | Institute for Transport Studies | Research Fellow | Transport decarbonisation, social movements |
Stephen Hall | Earth and Environment | University Academic Fellow and EPSRC Fellow | Low carbon innovation, economics, energy, climate change and society; energy transitions |
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 | |
Chris Hassall | Biology | Lecturer | 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 |
Eva Heinen | Institute for Transport Studies | University Academic Fellow | Cycling, bicycle use, travel behaviour change, active travel, sustainable transport |
Thirze Hermans | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate change resilience/adaptation/mitigation. Agriculture/Food Security |
Killian 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 |
David Hodgson | Earth and Environment | Professor of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy | Sea-level rise / change; Palaeocene / Eocene thermal maximum |
Anna Hogg | Earth and Environment | NERC Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow & University Academic Fellow in Earth Observation of the Cryosphere | Earth observation of the cryosphere, ice sheets, Antarctica, Greenland, ice velocity |
Joseph Holden | Geography | Pro-Dean for Research (Environment), Director of Water@Leeds & Chair in Physical Geography | Processes associated with the hydrology and carbon dynamics of peatlands under environmental change |
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 |
Katie Hornsey | | Administrator | |
Matt Howard | English | Douglas Caster Fellow in Poetry | Poetry |
Xinyi Huang | Earth and Environment | Masters student | Ice nucleation |
Graham Huggan | English | Professor | |
Lydia Hughes | Earth and Environment | Student | Public understanding of climate change & climate governance; Climate change in the curriculum |
Nicholas Humphries | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Sustainable agriculture; environmental geochemistry; environmental microbiology; water protection; flood risk management; waste management |
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 |
Sarah Irwin | Sociology and Social Policy | Professor of Sociology | Public perceptions and values relating to climate change; public engagement and policy |
Ornella Iuorio | Civil engineering | Associate Professor of Architecture nd Structures | Embodied carbon of construction, design for deconstruction |
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 | Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies | Cultural history of responses to urban landslides in the Andes (Caracas, Bogota, Medellin, Cali) from the 1920s onwards |
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 |
Elliott Johnson | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Just transition; de-growth |
Emma Johnstone | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Decarbonisation and other mitigation methods |
Ruth Joo | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Linkage of Global Carbon Markets |
Peter Joyce | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | The response of northern ecosystems to climate change |
Julia Lehman | Chemistry | University Academic Fellow | Gas phase kinetics and spectroscopy of atmospheric chemical reactions |
Arundhati Kalyan | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Large-scale atmospheric and climate dynamics, tropical basin interactions, teleconnections, seasonal to decadal climate variability and prediction |
Casey Kavaliauskas | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Carbon Capture and Storage |
Richard Keane | Earth and Environment | Met Office Senior Scientist | Indian Monsoon; Global atmospheric modelling; Convection parameterisation |
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 |
Effie Kesidou | Business | Associate Professor in Applied Economics | Eco-innovations/Environmental innovations; Green patents; International Sustainability Standards; CSR performance; Sustainability of City-regions |
Laura Kiely | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | The effects of tropical fire emissions on air quality and climate |
Georgina Kilburn | Earth and Environment | Masters student | I have researched how indigenous ecological knowledge is essential for mitigation and adaption measures in my undergraduate degree dissertation |
Lena Kilian | Geography | PhD researcher | Consumption-based household emissions (UK) |
Phoebe King | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Climate change adaption; Green infrastructure; Nature based solutions |
Megan Klaar | Geography | University Academic Fellow | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Lina Lefstad | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Ecological Economics; Smart Sustainable Cities; Modular and Circular housing; Circular Economy |
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 |
Daniel Li | Earth and Environment | Student | Environmental Science ; Climate Change and Environmental Policy |
Katerina Liontou | English / Business | Priestley PhD researcher (2018 intake) | |
Isobel Lloyd | Geography | PhD Researcher | Quantifying N2O and CO2 fluxes from agricultural soils; identifying sustainable farming practices to minimise climate impacts; advising policy makers |
Kathryn Logan | ITS | Research Fellow in Transport Decarbonisation | Transport, decarbonisation, energy, emissions |
Kate Lonsdale | Earth and Environment | Senior Researcher/UK Climate Resilience Champion | climate adaptation and resilience; organisational change; systems thinking; design for learning |
Suzanne Lorenz | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate change adaptation, visualisation and communication of climate change information |
Fleur Loveridge | Civil Engineering | University Academic Fellow | Climate change effects on performance and stability of earth structures and geotechnical infrastructure assets |
Xiaoxiao Ma | English | PhD researcher | Ecocriticism; Environmental Humanities; Ecology; Landscape and literature; Romanticism |
Rebecca Macklin | Geography | Research Assistant | Indigenous communities; gender; energy; petrocultures; environmental humanities |
Ankita Mandal | Institute of Transport Studies | Masters Student | Urban resilience, transport planning and environment |
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 | Associate Professor | 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 |
Patrick Mason | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Biomass for electricity generation |
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 |
David Maxwell | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Utilising biomass from brownfield sites; treatment methods to prevent emissions of harmful contaminants into the atmosphere. |
Amanda Maycock | Earth and Environment | University Academic Fellow | Surface climate variability, composition-climate interactions, ozone and water vapour effects |
Abigail McConnell | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Atmospheric chemistry, aerosol science |
Amy McGuire | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow in Quaternary Palynology | Past climate change; sea-level rise; ecosystem resilience |
Ciaran McInerney | Medicine | Research Associate | Statistics; algorithm development |
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 | Lecturer in Composition and Music Technology | Sonification, especially of irregular cyclic patterns |
Claire McLoughlin | ICAS | 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 |
Lucie Middlemiss | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor in Sustainability | Environmental sociology, energy poverty, sustainable consumption, sustainable communities, environmental justice |
Benjamin Mills | Earth and Environment | University Academic Fellow | Role of CO2 in climate over geological timescales; Ocean mixing and anthropogenic carbon inventories |
Jan Minx | Earth and Environment | Priestley Chair, 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 | Research Fellow | Climate information co-production, seasonal climate forecast, river flow requirements |
Aya Mohamed Ali | Earth and Environment | Student | CC adaptation; CC mitigation; adaptation and resilience in the Global South; plastic pollution; environmental degradation |
Ankita Mohapatra | | Student | Physical science; Mitigation; Adaptation; Ecological Economics; Aviation; Coastal Erosion; Arctic; Heat Island Effect |
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 |
Malcolm Morgan | | Research Fellow in Transport and Spatial Analysis | Decarbonising transport; Cycling; Sustainable communities; Place-based decarbonisation |
Francesca Morris | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Meteorology/geophysical fluid dynamics; the interaction between severe convection and large-scale atmospheric circulation |
Paul Morris | Geography | Lecturer in Ecohydrology | Climatic drivers (past, present and future) for peatland initiation, peatland carbon sequestration and changes in peatland biodiversity |
Kate Morris | Design | PhD researcher | Sustainable fashion, reducing carbon and water usage within the fashion industry |
Laurence Morris-Moody | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Forecasting the structure, intensity, and associated hazards of tropical cyclones, which are expected to intensify due to anthropogenic climate change |
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 |
Imrose Muhit | Civil Engineering | Research Fellow | |
Amrita Mukherjee | Law | Lecturer and Director LLM international law | International environmental law; International law; Global governance through law |
Phillip Murphy | Earth and Environment | Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship) | Speleothems as climate proxy, growth patterns and isotope records |
Mamatha Nagaraj | Physics and Astronomy | University Academic Fellow | Functional and responsive materials for sensing applications |
Rizwan Nawaz | Geography | Research Fellow | Climate change and impacts on water systems |
Angus Naylor | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | The effects of climate change on wild/country food security in Canada’s Far North |
Nicole Nisbett | Politics and International Studies | Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Climate Politics | 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 |
Seb O’Connor | Fine Arts, History of Art and Cultural Studies | PhD researcher | Flood management; Community-scale green infrastructure projects; Social values in sustainability science; Deliberative ecological economics |
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 |
Alesia Ofori | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | PhD Researcher | Rural governance; Political Ecology of water; Micropolitics and the extractive industry in West Africa |
Alice Owen | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor | Domestic energy retrofit; construction industry supply chains; place-based approaches to climate action; climate-resilient business models |
Anne Owen | Earth and Environment | University Academic Fellow | Consumption-based accounting for emissions |
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 |
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 |
Swati Patel | Earth and Environment | Masters Student | Behavioural Science towards climate solutions, AI potential and challenges towards mitigation |
Chris Paterson | Media and Communications | Senior Lecturer in International 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 |
Kerry Payton | Earth and Environment | MSc Climate Change and Environmental Policy | Climate Justice |
Stefan Pedersen | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Teaching Fellow | Co-lead on the Earth System Governance Project's 'Taskforce on Planetary Justice'; Published in Globalizations on 'planetarism' |
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 |
Ben Pickering | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Solutions such as EVs, renewable energy forecasting, sustainable observations e.g. radiosondes are not, and I work to replace them with UAVs |
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 |
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 |
Craig Poku | Earth and Environment | Postdoctoral 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 |
Santosa Sandy Putra | Geography | PhD researcher | Tropical Peatlands; River Restoration; Hydrology; Extreme Weather; Remote Sensing |
Lan Qie | Geography | Research Fellow | Biomass / carbon dynamics in tropical forests |
Duncan Quincey | Geography | Professor of Glaciology | Cryospheric change; Hazard development; Water resources |
Claire Quinn | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor of Natural Resources Management | Environmental change and sustainability, social and agriculture interface |
Ben Rabb | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Translating existing research to provide practical societal benefits; Hydroclimatic risk assessment; Climate change adaptation planning |
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 |
Alex Rap | Earth and Environment | Lecturer in Atmospheric Science | Radiation modelling, biosphere-atmosphere interactions |
Chloe Rapson | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Climate modelling; Sustainability; Environmental policy |
Imogen Rattle | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow in Local Low Carbon Industrial Strategy | Qualitative research exploring how local industrial strategies can deliver the UK's net zero goals |
Christopher Rayner | Chemistry | Professor of Organic Chemistry | Chemistry, low energy capture methods and utilisation of carbon dioxide; chemistry relevant to carbon capture and storage |
Lucy Recchia | Mathematics | PhD researcher | Dynamics of the Indian Monsoon system |
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 | Research Fellow | Effect of aerosol forcing on large-scale climate phenomena on the decadal timescale |
Clifford Richardson | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Long term sea level rise and coastal infrastructure resilience. |
Clare Richardson-Barlow | Languages, Cultures and Societies | Research Fellow | 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 |
Suzanne Robinson | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Climate change, ocean circulation |
Philippa Roddis | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Public acceptance of renewable energy; low carbon transitions; ecosystem services |
Jennifer Rodley | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | My research focusses on ocean redox environments but I have a personal interest in the climate and environmental impacts of animal agriculture |
Katy Roelich | Earth and Environment / Civil Engineering | Co-Director of Sustainability Research Institute | |
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 |
Debbie Rosen | Earth and Environment | General Manager, CPOM & COMET | Earth observation and modelling of polar regions |
Amy Ross | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Participatory governance; Low carbon infrastructure (case studies HS2, fracking in Lancashire, Northern Gas Network's hydrogen gas project) |
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 |
Sally Russell | Earth and Environment | Associate Professor | Climate Change and Sustainability in Organisations; Proenvironmental Behaviour in Organisations; Material demand reduction |
Jacqueline Rutkowski | Business | MSCA Researcher Fellow | Waste management; waste recycling |
Lisma Safitri | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Evapotranspiration, water balance, soil moisture, water footprint, water use efficiency |
Paola Sakai | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Adaptation and resilience of the water sector and SMEs to climate change, low-carbon future options for cities |
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 |
Arul Prakash Samathuvamani | | Taught Postgraduate | Application of Machine Learning; Signal Processing in areas of waste management; air pollution monitoring; Digitalising waste management and monitor |
Xiomarra Alejandra Sandoval Sierra | Earth and Environment | Student | Vulnerable communities; Developing countries; Disaster Risk Management |
Daniel Sault | | | 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 | PhD Student | Adaptation; Food security; Nutrition |
Cat Scott | Earth and Environment | University Academic Fellow in Biosphere-Climate Interactions | Impact of forests on climate, aerosol science, atmospheric composition, radiative transfer |
Daniel Scullion | Earth and Environment | Masters student | Climate Change, agricultural impact, modelling, climate communication. |
Heather Selley | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Using earth observation to map elevation and velocity changes of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets |
Amalia Serritiello | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Environmental policy and governance; Sustainable cities; Climate modelling; The drivers/barriers to diet affecting climate change; Carbon zero initiatives |
Sarah Shallcross | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Impact of volcanic eruptions on climate; General interest in climate change impacts and potential solutions (e.g. geoengineering) |
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 |
Andy Shepherd | Earth and Environment | Professor | Cryosphere; Earth Observation |
Hannah Sherwood | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Impact of Biomass use/land use change on earth-atmosphere interactions in tea/coffee cultivating regions |
Shiva Shruti | Earth and Environment | Student | Sustainable architecture; net-zero targets; water and waste management; sustainable development goals (SDGs) |
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 |
Myung Hee Sim | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Emission Trading Scheme |
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 |
Jasjit Singh | Philosophy, Religion and History of Science | Research Fellow | Minority ethnic communities and narratives of climate change; Religion and climate change; Transmission of narratives and issues |
Ranjay Singh | Earth and Environment | LBS Visiting Fellow | Climate vulnerability, multiple stressors, agricultural adaptation and climate policy implications are local level |
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 | Lecturer in 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 |
Ross Slater | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Satellite observations of Antarctic ice velocity, ice-ocean interactions, sea level rise |
Tom Slater | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | The Cryosphere; Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets; Sea level rise; Earth observation |
Thomas Sloan | Earth & Environment | Forest Science and Policy Fellow | Peatland carbon accumulation and loss; Forestry carbon sequestration |
Fiona Smith | Law | Professor of International Economic Law | Agricultural trade; food security; food sovereignty; climate and health; regional trade agreements; EU Common Agricultural Policy |
Elle Smith | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Urban forests |
Laura Smith | Earth and Environment | Lecturer | Extractive industries, critical minerals, low carbon supply chains |
Chris Smith | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate projection and climate modelling; radiative forcing; radiative transfer |
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) | University Academic Fellow in Political Science Informatics | 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 |
Lucy Stevens | Earth and Environment | MSc student | The climatic impacts of milk consumption and how we can change consumption and behaviour to benefit the planet. |
Daniel Stone | Chemistry | University Academic Fellow | Atmospheric chemical mechanisms |
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 |
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 |
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. |
Giorgio Taverna | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Assessment of the impact of the injection of TiO2 particles at stratospheric levels to counteract escalating climate change via geo-engineering |
Andrea Taylor | Business / Earth and Environment | University Academic Fellow in Decision Making and Preparedness for Climate Change and Extreme Weather | Risk perception, communication, decision making and preparedness for climate change and extreme weather |
Edward Taylor | Earth and Environment | MRes student | Sea level reconstruction |
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 |
Liam Taylor | Geography | PhD researcher | Permafrost Peatlands, focussed on Alaska. Wider responses of the Cryosphere to climate change. Remote sensing. Climate Change education |
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 | UKRI COP26 Research Fellow | 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 |
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 |
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 | Research Fellow in Contemporary Poetics | Critical plant studies; animal studies; environmental humanities; ecopoetry; environmental ethics |
Judith Tucker | Design | Senior Lecturer | Landscape, place and environment in contemporary art; Art/poetry collaboration in an ecocritical context |
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 |
Kerrie Unsworth | Business | Chair of Organisational Behaviour | Employee pro-environmental behaviour change, SME green transformation |
Alexander Valavanis | Electronic and Electrical Engineering | UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and University Academic Fellow | 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 |
Zora van Leeuwen | Geography | PhD researcher | Flood risk management |
Sven Van Loo | Physics and Astronomy | Lecturer of Astrophysics | Ammonia-aerosol combustion |
Anne Velenturf | Civil Engineering / Earth and Environment | Research Impact Fellow in Circular Economy and Sustainable Offshore Wind | 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 |
Jean Jesus Vilca Meza | Earth and Environment | Masters Student | Environmental Policy; Climate Change: Science, Mitigation and Adaptation; Sustainability and Development; Energy. |
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 |
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 |
Hong Wang | Geography | PhD researcher | Climate change impacts on streamflow seasonality and freshwater biodiversity |
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 |
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 |
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. |
Tom Wood | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Atmospheric circulation response to climate change drivers; Regional climate change; Climate modelling; Climate model uncertainty |
Alexandra Woodford | Leeds University Business School | PhD researcher | Climate finance justice |
Kerri Woods | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Lecturer in Political Theory | Environmental human rights; climate justice; environmental ethics |
Helen Woodward | Earth and Environment | MSc Climate Change and Environmental Policy | Adaptation; Mitigation; Causation; Policy and Governance; Green Finance; Sustainability; Environmental Economics |
Robert Woodward-Massey | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Tropospheric chemistry |
Bin Xu | Leeds University Business School | Associate Professor in Finance | Sustainable finance, green finance, corporate environmental performance, environmental violations |
Zhuoqian Yang | Institute for Transport Studies | PhD researcher | NOx and CO2 emissions from grocery delivery (refrigerated) vans |
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 |
Sherif Youssef | Earth and Environment | Lecturer | Political economy, energy policy |
Sibongile Zimba | Biology | PhD researcher | Plant science, climate change adaptation and resilience; developing of climate resilient crops for sustainable food production systems |
Pazit Ziv | Civil Engineering | Water@Leeds Doctoral Research and Training Centre Manager | Water, atmospheric research, meteorology, humidity, hydrology |