Previous cohorts
Previous cohorts
Project list
Cohort 3
| Name | Department | Supervisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Allen | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Jenny Collier | Volatile recycling at the Lesser Antilles arc: A geophysical study of the incoming plate |
| Ricardo Arraiano Catilho | Life Sciences | Dr Martin Bidartondo | Plant-Fungal interactions in Alpine ecosystems: Environmental drivers and influence of plant host genetic variation on mycorrhizas across elevation and latitudinal gradients |
| Eirik Christensen | Mechanical Engineering | Dr Guillermo Rein | Frostfire: Permafrost thawing and wildfires in cold regions |
| Habiba Daggash | Centre for Environmental Policy | Dr Niall Mac Dowell | The implications of the Paris Agreement on electric power systems transitions: technoeconomic and sociopolitical assessments of the UK and Nigeria |
| Michael Ehrenstein | Chemical Engineering | Dr Gonzalo Guillen Gosalbez | Supply Chain Risk Management and Resilient Cities |
| Rikki Gumbs | Life Sciences | Dr James Rosindell | Integrating phylogeny and functional traits into conservation priority setting |
| Alexander Hage | Physics | Dr Juliet Pickering | Cirrus Cloud Studies |
| Shirin Hakim | Centre for Environmental Policy | Dr Kaveh Madani | Virtually Dry: Tracing Iran’s Virtual Water Bankruptcy |
| Paul Huxley | School of Public Health | Dr Kris Murray | Impacts of environmental change on vector borne disease dynamics: resolving the influences of mosquito ecological and life history trait variation on disease risks |
| Luciana Miu | Chemical Engineering | Dr Adam Hawkes | A socio-technical framework to drive the introduction of energy efficiency measures for private households in the UK |
| Bruce Murphy | Royal Botanical Gardens (Kew) | Dr Martin Cheek | Phylogenomics and evolution of pitcher plants (Nepenthes) and biogeographical patterns in SE Asia |
| Chris Ogden | Earth Science and Engineering | Dr Ian Bastow | The formation and evolution of Cyprus and the Troodos Ophiolite: evidence from broadband seismology |
| Victoria Priestley | Life Sciences | Professor Vincent Savolainen | Assessing ecosystems diversity and function using environmental DNA |
| Ashley Reaney | Life Sciences | Dr Arkhat Abzhanov | The evolution of form and function across taxonomic scales of passerines |
| Jonathan Rio | Earth Science and Engineering | Dr Mark Sutton | Using the fossil record of crocodylians to assess extinction risk today |
| Muhammad Agung Santoso | Mechanical Engineering | Dr Guillermo Rein | Laboratory-Based Experimental Study of Smouldering peat fires |
| Geraldine Satre-Buisson | Science Communications Unit | Dr Felicity Mellor | Strategic Narratives in the UK Climate Policy |
| Sarab Sethi | Mathematics | Dr Nick Jones | Continuous monitoring of rainforest biodiversity via acoustic signal processing |
| Hiral Shah | School of Public Health | Dr Kris Murray | Exploring the impact of global agricultural production and trade on infectious disease risks |
| Branwen Snelling | Earth Science and Engineering | Professor Matthew Piggott | Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment: quantifying uncertainty in landslide, earthquake and impact generated waves |
| Daniel Swindlehurst | Life Sciences | Dr Joseph Tobias | Impacts of Land-use and Climate Change on Ecosystem Function at Macroecological Scales |
| Grace Thomas | Centre for Environmental Policy | Dr Mike Tennant | Challenges of accessing mainstream capital for impact investment |
| Natasha Trencham | Physics | Professor Joanna Haigh | The climatic impact of stratospheric temperature changes in idealized coupled ocean‐ atmosphere models |
| Chi San Tsai | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Dr Adrian Butler | Saline intrusion in coastal aquifers |
| Ian Walker | Computing | Dr Ben Glocker | Deep Learning for Automated Discovery and Analysis of Plant Leaf Physiographic Characters Related to Climate Change |
| Han Yuan | Mechanical Engineering | Dr Guillermo Rein | Predicting the spread of smouldering peat fires |
Cohort 2
| Name | Department | Supervisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renato Cabral | Centre for Environmental Policy | Dr Niall Mac Dowell | Flexible carbon negative electricity generation |
| Andrea Calderon | Centre for Environmental Policy | Dr Rocio Diaz-Chavez | Assessment of climate change mitigation policies for Mexico City |
| Jiajun Cen | Chemical Engineering | Professor Xiao Yun Xu | Modelling of supercritical CO2 storage in fractured rock formations under realistic conditions |
| Alessandro Chianzera | Earth Science & Engineering | Professor Peter Allison | Virtual habitats, fossil preservation and estimates of dinosaur biodiversity in the Cretaceous of North America. |
| Alison Cobb | Physics | Dr Arnaud Czaja | Impact of the Gulf Stream on the North Atlantic storm track |
| Solomos Georgiou | Chemical Engineering | Dr Christos Markides | Decarbonising food supply chains: a holistic approach |
| Pria Ghosh | School of Public Health | Professor Matthew Fisher | The evolutionary ecology of fungal coinfections in disease-stricken amphibians |
| Nichar Gregory | Life Sciences | Dr Lauren Cator | Vectorial capacity across an environmental gradientThe evolutionary ecology of fungal coinfections in disease-stricken amphibians |
| Alexander Griffiths | Earth Science & Engineering | Professor Mark Rehkamper | Understanding modern biogeochemical cycles in the context of the international GEOTRACES program – cadmium, zinc, lead and neodymium isotope analyses |
| Cally Ham | Zoological Society of London | Dr Rosie Woodroffe | The ecology of pathogen transmission between wildlife and livestock |
| Daniel Hdidouan | Centre for Environmental Policy | Dr Rob Gross | Impacts of Climate Change on Renewable Resources of Europe and North Africa |
| Alex Hughes | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Dylan Rood | Quantifying seismic hazard posed by active thrust faults in urbanized Southern California |
| Hafeez Jeofry | Earth Science & Engineering | Professor Martin Siegert | Quantifying Antarctic ice-sheet vulnerability to internal ice-sheet processes |
| Arnaud Koehl | School of Public Health | Dr Chris Millett | |
| Dimitrios Kontopoulos | Life Sciences | Dr Samraat Pawar | Biological Limits to Acclimation and Adaptation to Climate change |
| Joanna Lester | Physics | Dr Heather Graven | Studying ocean circulation, acidification and CO2 uptake using models and tracers |
| Maral Mahlooji | Centre for Environmental Policy | Dr Kaveh Madani | A System of Systems Approach to Assess the Sustainability of Energy Systems: A Global Insight |
| Ronan McAdam | Physics | Dr Erik van Sebille | The connected ocean: redrawing ocean boundaries and the impact of inter-ocean transports on climate and ecosystems |
| Hannah Norman | Life Sciences | Professor Alfried Vogler | Metagenomics and museum collections to characterize declining pollination webs |
| Boris Ochoa Tocachi | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Dr Wouter Buytaert | Citizen science for water resources management in remote mountain environments |
| Naomi Pratt | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Tina Van de Flierdt | Unravelling Climate Secrets of the Past with Deep-Sea Corals |
| Jennifer Quye-Sawyer | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Alex Whittaker | Topography of the Western Mediterranean in space and time |
| William Rimington | Life Sciences | Dr Martin Bidartondo | The diversity, physiology and evolution of fungal symbiosis in land plants |
| Rowan Schley | Royal Botanical Gardens (Kew) | Dr Bente Klitgaard | Neotropical Plant Evolution: Adding Pieces to the Jigsaw |
| Oliver Schmidt | Chemical Engineering | Dr Iain Staffell | Mitigation Potential of Electricity Storage |
| Thomas Smallwood | School of Public Health | Professor Christl Donnelly | Modelling multi-host viral pathogens for biodiversity conservation |
| Ahmed Tayia | Centre for Environmental Policy | Dr Kaveh Madani | |
| Sonia Tiedt | School of Public Health | Dr Kris Murray | Global change ecology and the biogeography of human infectious diseases |
Cohort 1
| Name | Department | Supervisor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel Bertram | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Tina Van de Flierdt | Rates of Melting of the Large East Antarctic Ice Sheet under near Future Environmental Conditions |
| Peter Blair | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Dr Wouter Buytaert | Modelling drivers of tropical land-use change and their impact on local water resources |
| Jonathan Bosch | Centre for Environmental Policy | Dr Adam Hawkes | Addressing key challenges in whole systems modelling of energy transitions |
| Alistair Boyce | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Ian Bastow | The formation of cratonic keels: seismic evidence from North America |
| Sam Brooke | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Alexander Whittaker | Constraining landscape sensitivity to climate change: From past data to future models? |
| Kieran Brophy | Physics | Dr Heather Graven | Atmospheric studies of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion |
| Michael Burgass | Life Sciences | Professor Benjamin Halpern | Assessing ocean health for Polar regions |
| Victoria Burton | Natural History Museum | Professor Andy Purvis | Statistical modelling of how soil biodiversity and ecosystem function respond to human impacts in UK ecosystems |
| Philip Chapman | Zoological Society London | Dr Marcus Rowcliffe | Understanding how tropical forest fragmentation impacts on mammal communities |
| Simon De Stercke | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Dr Ana Mijic | Sustainable cities in the context of water-energy interactions |
| Roan du Feu | Earth Science & Engineering | Professor Matthew Piggott | Advanced computational modelling of large-scale marine renewable systems: optimising the trade-off between environmental impacts and power generation |
| Malcolm Graham | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Dr Adrian Butler | Inverse modelling of saline-freshwater interface behaviour in coastal aquifers conditioned on measurements of spontaneous potential |
| Sam Grainger | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Dr Wouter Buytaert | Citizen science for water resources management in the tropical Andes |
| Alastair Gregory | Mathematics | Dr Colin Cotter | Multilevel ensemble prediction of weather and climateConversion of CO2 to Methanol with Organometallic Pre-Catalysts |
| Alexandra Hicken | Chemistry | Dr Mark Crimmin | Conversion of CO2 to Methanol with Organometallic Pre-Catalysts |
| Rogier Hintzen | Life Sciences | Dr James Rosindell | Optimizing complexity in models forecasting biodiversity change |
| Miklós Homolya | Computing | Dr David Ham | Solving the big data problem in climate simulation |
| Clea Kolster | Centre for Environmental Policy | Dr Niall Mac Dowell | Multi-scale modelling and analysis of dynamic CO2 injection and storage |
| Helen Lacey | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Veerle Vadeginste | Exploring fracturing and cementation triggered by earthquakes |
| Minyi Liang | Physics | Dr Arnaud Czaja | Extreme poleward heat transport to the High Latitudes impact on sea ice |
| Demetrius Martins | Life Sciences | Professor Jon Lloyd | Disentangling tropical forest stand characteristics in terms of cation availability and functional traits |
| Bora Ristic | Centre for Environmental Policy | Dr Zen Makuch | Sustainability Assessment of Water Treatment Technologies |
| Azucena Rodriguez Yebra | British Geological Survey | Dr Andrew Hughes | Understanding the interactions between adited groundwater sources and the Chalk aquifer under drought conditions, using the example of the River Colne catchment |
| Rebecca Short | Life Sciences | Dr Samraat Pawar | Disentangling the net: the ecological and social dynamics of mosquito net fishing in Northern Mozambique |
| Patric Simoes Pereira | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Tina Van de Flierdt | In search of the last collapse of the West Antarctic sheet |
| Dylan Smith | Life Sciences | Dr Richard Gill | Effects of pesticide exposure on bee brain morphology and foraging performance |
| Gaia Stucky de Quay | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Gareth Roberts | Uplift and erosion histories of ancient buried landscapes: Constraining the evolution of the Icelandic plume. |
| Rebecca Thomas | Life Sciences | Professor Colin Prentice | Using atmospheric CO2 measurements to advance land carbon science |
| Stephen Watkins | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Rebecca Bell | Quantifying the ability of the sedimentary record to document tectonic and climatic events in the Gulf of Corinth, central Greece |
| Benjamin Yeager | Earth Science & Engineering | Professor Matthew Piggott | Modelling ice-ocean processes driving sea-level rise from West Antarctica |
