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 |
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 |
Emmanuel Aramendia | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Energy-economy modelling; Energy transition; Energy conservation; Energy rebound; Non-renewable natural resources depletion |
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 |
Lachlan Astfalck | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Affects of glacial melt on sea-level rise |
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 |
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 |
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 | PhD researcher | 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 | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Renewable energy, low carbon heat, the decarbonisation of cities, future sustainable energy system, complexity of the energy system |
John Barrett | Earth and Environment | Chair in Sustainability Research | Energy demand, sustainability, economic growth, carbon accounting |
Richard Beardsworth | Politics and International Studies | Professor of International Relations and Head of School | Climate Change and International Relations; Climate Change and Political Leadership; Climate Change as a Catalyst: Beyond the North/South Divide |
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 |
Amy Bennett | Geography | Postgraduate researcher | Impacts of the 2015/2016 El Nino on tropical forests |
Susan Bernal Lopez | Civil Engineering | Professor of Structural Materials | Decarbonisation of cement and concretes; Management and valorisation of wastes; Extending longevity of concrete structures |
Louise Beveridge | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Climate change for food security; modelling climate impact on crops, asking how modelling can help to inform adaptation decisions in food insecure regions (Central America focus); developing agro-climatic indices |
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 |
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 |
Seamus Bradley | Philosophy, Religion and History of Science | Marie Curie Research Fellow | Philosophy of science (modelling, simulation); Rationality and decision making under uncertainty |
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 | Business | PhD researcher | Judgements, decision-making and behaviour in polarised contexts |
Roel Brienen | Geography | Associate Professor | Ecosystem functioning;interactions between ecology and environment; impact of climate on tropical forests |
Melissa Brill | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Climate Change: Physical Science Basis; mitigation; impact and adaptation |
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 student | 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 |
Lukas Bunse | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Macroeconomic impacts of energy demand reduction |
Lauren Burton | Earth and Environment | PhD Researcher | The climate of the Pliocene and understanding its relevance for the 1.5C world. |
Jonathan Busch | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Low carbon infrastructure transitions, business models and socio-technical systems modelling |
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 |
Sarah Chapman | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Impact of climate change on East Africa, particularly in regards to rainfall and agriculture |
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 | PhD researcher | Atmospheric Physics, climate modelling, climate dynamics, atmospheric chemistry. |
Connor Clayton | Earth and Environment / Physics | Priestley PhD researcher (2020 intake) | |
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 |
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 |
Meaghan Daly | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Co-production and knowledge politics; Science-society relations and science governance; Climate change adaptation; Science and Technology Studies |
Charlie Dannreuther | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Lecturer | Water quality regulation and evaluation, accountability of local authority finance officers, community based critical pedagogy |
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 |
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 |
Lorenzo Dello Sbarba | Earth and Environment | Student | |
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 | Lecturer in Environmental Politics and Governance | Environmental politics and development; climate policy, environmental movements and policy networks |
Matthew Dickinson | Earth and Environment | MSc 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 |
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 |
Wuhu Feng | Chemistry / Earth and Environment | NCAS Scientist | Stratospheric ozone depletion and mesospheric metal layers |
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 |
Katie Field | Biology | BBSRC Translational Fellow | Plant-fungal symbioses (mycorrhizas); plant-soil processes; sustainable agriculture; evolutionary ecophysiology |
Declan Finney | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Convection-permitting climate modelling; Eastern Africa climate; Lightning, atmospheric chemistry and climate change |
Clare Fisher | Performance and Cultural Industries | PhD Researcher | Creative responses to the climate crisis, particularly in creative writing; Interdisciplinary responses to 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 |
Jennifer Fletcher | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Cumulus convection and tropical dynamics |
Markus Fraundorfer | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Lecturer in Global Governance | Global Governance; Global Environmental Challenges |
Joseph Hubert Galani Yamdeu | Food Science and Nutrition | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Plant and food composition analysis; Food safety; Dietary exposure and human health risk assessment; Climate-smart agriculture |
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 |
Julius Gane | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Quality bio-oil production as future renewable liquid fuels |
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 |
Jannik Giesekam | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow in Industrial Climate Policy | Opportunities to reduce energy use and carbon emissions through the pursuit of material efficiency strategies |
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 |
Sam Grainger | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate Services; Climate-related decision making; Climate communication |
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 |
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 | Priestley PhD researcher (2016 intake) | |
Chris Hassall | Biology | Lecturer | Climate impacts on freshwater ecosystems, aquatic thermal microclimates, insect phenological and distributional change |
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 | PhD researcher | Climate change resilience/adaptation/mitigation. Agriculture/Food Security |
David Higgins | English | Associate Professor in English Literature | Literary/cultural representations of climate change; historical understandings of climate change |
Luke Higgins | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | 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 |
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 |
Nicholas Humphries | Civil Engineering | PhD researcher | Sustainable agriculture; environmental geochemistry; environmental microbiology; water protection; flood risk management; waste management |
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 | Areas of interest include public perceptions and values relating to climate change; public engagement and policy |
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 |
Jefferson Jaikissoon | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change; Food Security |
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 |
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 |
Astrid Kause | Business | Post-doctoral Researcher | Climate change communication, concepts and communication of uncertainties related to climate change, daily behaviours |
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 |
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 |
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 |
James Lester | Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies | PhD Researcher | Artist interpretation of nuclear disaster; conveying deep-time environmental, climate and nuclear issues through visual and conceptual art |
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 |
Mingchen Li | Business | PhD researcher | The relationship between companies' carbon performance and financial performance; The impact of carbon performance on firms' financing restrictions. |
Isobel Lloyd | Geography | PhD Researcher | Quantifying N2O and CO2 fluxes from agricultural soils; identifying sustainable farming practices to minimise climate impacts; advising policy makers |
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 |
Christopher Lyon | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate policy, adaptation, resilience, transformation |
Xiaoxiao Ma | English | PhD researcher | Ecocriticism; Environmental Humanities; Ecology; Landscape and literature; Romanticism |
Xiaoxiao Ma | Institute for Transport Studies | Research Fellow | How to use economic policies to address environmental externalities caused by vehicle driving |
Rebecca Macklin | Geography | Research Assistant | Indigenous communities; gender; energy; petrocultures; environmental humanities |
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 |
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 |
Alex McCann | Earth and Environment | PhD Researcher | Ice-sheet and glacier ablation in relation to climate change; climate change policy and governance. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Neha Mittal | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate information co-production, seasonal climate forecast, river flow requirements |
Felicity Monger | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | The impacts of semi-natural woodland on flooding in the UK |
Elizabeth Morgan | Earth and Environment | Associate Researcher | Corporate environmental responsiveness, sustainable consumption. Business innovation and its diffusion for carbon emission reduction in consumption |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Elias Nkiaka | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Water, Climate and Society |
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 |
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 |
Matthew Pankhurst | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | K-feldspar as a potential climate modulating agent |
Douglas Parker | Earth and Environment | Met Office Professor of Meteorology | Atmospheric dynamics; Storms; Land-atmosphere interaction; Weather forecasting; Tropics / Africa; Operational weather prediction |
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 |
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 |
Emily Potter | Geography | Postdoctoral Cryospheric researcher | Regional climate modelling; mountain climate; near-surface climate above glaciers |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Leighton Regayre | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Effect of aerosol forcing on large-scale climate phenomena on the decadal timescale |
Claire Richardson-Barlow | Languages, Cultures and Societies | PhD researcher | Trade governance in renewable energy development in the Asia-Pacific |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Karina Schaefer | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Earth Sciences; Marine Geology; Geoglogical Engineering; Sustainable Development; Climate Change and Environmental Policy |
Cat Scott | Earth and Environment | University Academic Fellow in Biosphere-Climate Interactions | Impact of forests on climate, aerosol science, atmospheric composition, radiative transfer |
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) |
Ian Shaw | Politics and International Studies | Associate Professor of Global Security Challenges | School and community gardens, climate justice, local community impact and involvement, education, young people, ecological skills and science |
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 |
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 | Postgraduate researcher | 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 |
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 |
Tom Slater | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | The Cryosphere; Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets; Sea level rise; Earth observation |
Fiona Smith | Law | Professor of International Economic Law | Agricultural trade; food security; food sovereignty; climate and health; regional trade agreements; EU Common Agricultural Policy |
Chris Smith | Earth and Environment | Research Fellow | Climate projection and climate modelling; radiative forcing; radiative transfer |
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. |
Peter Steward | Earth and Environment | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Ecological science to enhance sustainability, productivity and resilience of farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa |
Daniel Stone | Chemistry | University Academic Fellow | Atmospheric chemical mechanisms |
Lindsay Stringer | Earth and Environment | Professor in Environment and Development | Human-environment relationships, sustainable development, environmental governance |
Julia Szajdzicka | Earth and Environment | MSc student | Policy philosophy |
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 |
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 |
Liam Taylor | Geography | PhD researcher | Permafrost Peatlands, focussed on Alaska. Wider responses of the Cryosphere to climate change. Remote sensing. Climate Change education |
Harriet Thew | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Jean Jesus Vilca Meza | Earth and Environment | Masters Student | Environmental Policy; Climate Change: Science, Mitigation and Adaptation; Sustainability and Development; Energy. |
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 |
Zia Wadud | Institute for Transport Studies | Associate Professor | Personal carbon trading; residential and transport energy use choices; carbon decomposition analysis |
Christopher Walker | Civil Engineering | PhD Researcher | Geotechnical Engineering; Transport Infrastructure; Highways; Railway; Compacted Soils; Unsaturated Soil Mechanics; Earthworks; Embankments; Cuttings |
Daniel Warren | Biology | PhD researcher | Invasion Ecology; Ecosystem and Climate Change; Freshwater Ecology |
Charlotte Weaver | Chemical and Process Engineering | PhD researcher | Impacts of land use change from bioenergy expansion on global biogeochemical and biophysical effects on climate |
Georgina Werkmeister | Geography | PhD researcher | How extreme temperatures might affect reproduction in tropical forest trees in Brazil |
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 |
Jamie Wilson | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Impacts of deforestation: atmospheric composition and the climate |
Cordula Wittekind | Geography | PhD researcher | Modeling future environmental flows against the background of climate change with particular focus on adaptation of abstraction licensing systems |
Tom Wood | Earth and Environment | PhD researcher | Atmospheric circulation response to climate change drivers; Regional climate change; Climate modelling; Climate model uncertainty |
Kerri Woods | Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Lecturer in Political Theory | Environmental human rights; climate justice; environmental ethics |
Robert Woodward-Massey | Chemistry | PhD researcher | Tropospheric chemistry |
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 |
Sibongile Zimba | Biology | PhD researcher | 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 |