People

Faculty of Engineering

Chemical Engineering

• Luke Dubey: Use of satellites to measure methane emissions from oil and gas sector  

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Wouter Buytaert: Satellite-based rainfall products
• Adrian Callaghan: Ocean-atmosphere interactions; upper ocean turbulence; atmospheric forcing 
• Ioannis Karmpadakis: Coastal engineering; hydrodynamics; sediment transfer; wave structure and movements
• James Lawrence: Satellite imagery to study rocks, geological structures and tectonics, land form processes, geotechnical projects
• Ali Mashayek: Ocean and climate dynamics; global carbon cycle; climate modelling and mitigation
• Gosia Mider: InSAR; ground motions; coastal cliffed environments
• Victoria Milanez Fernandez: landscape evolution; mantle-drive motions of the Earth's surface
• Ashraf Nayel: Protection of heritage structures against extreme events
• Athanasios Paschalis: Hydrology and ecology
• Alison Prior: Earth Observation; hydrology; vegetation; climate change
• Jennifer Scoular: InSAR; ground movements; geological processes; construction
• Marc Stettler: transport; climate change; emission sources; nanoparticles; health
• Zixiao Wang: InSAR; fault movement; radioactive waste disposal

Earth Science & Engineering

• Abu Taher Muhammad Abdullah: Climate change; security; crime
• Johnny Adams: paleo-oceanographic variability; West Antarctic Ice sheet thickness
• Stewart Agar: InSAR; nuclear waste; ground deformation measurement
• Jenny Collier: geology; geophysics; geodynamics; controlled source reflection and refraction seismology; sidescan sonar and multibeam bathymetry; volcanic continental margins
• Hayley Firth: Computational fluid dynamics; high temperature subsurface thermal energy storage, geothermal reservoirs
• Fred Richards: Mantle dynamics, glacial isostatic adjustment, marine geophysics, geology, sea-level change, ice dynamics, palaeoclimate
• Nicola Gambaro: forecasting metal flows through the economy
• Stephen Hicks: Earthquake ruptures; tectonic plate boundaries; seismic waves 
• Navjot Kukreja: High performance computing
• Philippa Mason: Satellite imagery to study rocks, minerals, geological structures and tectonics
• Ophelie Meuriot: Antarctic intermediate water; overturning circulation; climate change
• Adriana Paluszny Rodriguez: Large-scale fracture patterns visible on the Earth's surface
• Sophie Wenjiao Pan: fault arrays in rift basins; numerical models; seismic data
• Matthew Piggott: Satellite imagery to study coastal oceanography and coastal engineering
• Yves Plancherel: Ocean processes; marine productivity; winds; temperature; sea surface height
• Dylan Rood: remote sensing data (e.g. topography and satellite imagery) to study Earth surface processes and geohazards (e.g. active tectonics, climate change, coastal erosion, anthropogenic impacts on landscapes, and earthquake hazards)
• Jennifer Scoular: InSAR; ground movements; landslides 
• Tina van De Flierdt: geochemical and isotopic tracers in marine geochemistry; ocean circulation; ice sheet evolution
• Alex Whittaker: Satellite imagery and remote sensing for the analysis of landscapes, geological faults and sediment routing systems
• Jamie Wilkinson: Mineral spectral signatures on the Earth's surface

Faculty of Medicine

School of Public Health

• Nosha Assareh: air quality; atmospheric modelling
• Sean Beevers: air quality; health; modelling; exposure
• Samir Bhatt: Inferential mathematical models to address policy-relevant questions about infectious diseases - specifically malaria and HIV
• Victoria Cox: epidemiology; modelling; arbovirus transmission; climate change
• Ilaria Dorigatti: mathematical modelling of infectious diseases to optimise control strategies and address policy-relevant questions
• Daniela Fecht: Geographical variations in population health; environmental and health inequalities
• Andrew Glover: arboviruses, modelling, temperature-dependency
• Iwona Hawryluk: epidemiology; covid; genomics  
• Kris Murray: Global change, conservation and health; environmental and social change impacts on infectious disease burdens and distributions; extinction risk; habitat loss; biodiversity
• Monica Pirani: Analysis and prediction of the distribution of disease in relation to changes in climate/weather and local environment
• Alina Rodriguez: Maternal and child health; Mental health; Neurodevelopment; Obesity
• Annalisa Sheehan: diabetes
• Esra Suel: Using satellite imagery for measuring socioeconomic status and environmental exposures (pollution) using deep learning
• Charlie Whitaker: Impact of environmental (satellite derived) variables on malaria prevalence and mosquito population dynamics

Faculty of Natural Sciences

Grantham Institute

• Alex Koberle: scenarios of socio-environmental change; transitions; climate-land-energy-water nexus

Life Sciences

• Beatriz Calvo Urbano: Ecology, biostatistics, marine biology, climate change, schistosomiasis, soil transmitted helminthiasis, dengue
• Emma Cavan: marine plants; global ocean carbon sink; climate and environmental regulation; Antarctic krill
• Robert Ewers: Tropical forest structure and phenology
• Ross Gray: Drone; ecology; uAVs; phenology; tropical forests
• Rodolfo Nobrega: Energy balance; land-cover change detection; plant traits; trend analysis
• Alison Prior: water and carbon cycle; global transpiration and plant uptake
• Colin Prentice: Developing, evaluating and applying models of terrestrial primary production and other ecosystem processes
• Alison Prior: Earth Observation; hydrology; vegetation; climate change
• Alfried Vogler: Phylogeny and evolution of speciesdiversity in insects; beetles

Physics

• Richard Bantges: Radiative transfer in the earth's atmosphere; Earth Observation-mission design, instrumentation and data calibration and intercalibration
• Helen Brindley: Earth radiation budget; climate impacts and feedback; aircraft flight campaigns; solar energy resources
• Paulo Ceppi: Global cloud processes and their impact on the Earth's radiative budget
• Tsz Choi: Building a long-term record of global solar energy resource from satellite observations
• Jonathan Eastwood: Earth space environment; magnetic field; space weather; the Sun; space physics
• Heather Graven: Global carbon cycle; sources and sinks of anthropogenic CO₂.
• Ed Gryspeerdt: Cloud processes and the impact of air pollution
• Jaqueline Russell: Earth radiation budget
• Beltran Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha: Earth radiation budget; interoperation of new EO missions
• Ralf Toumi: Prediction of tropical cyclones
• Laura Warwick: far-infrared emission from Earth, and its impact on weather forecasting and climate modelling