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 Adrian Butler

Adrian Butler

Professor of Subsurface Hydrology, DIC, PhD, FRMetS, FGS
Sub surface flow and transport processes and their environmental impact. 
 Wouter Buytaert

Wouter Buytaert

Reader in Hydrology and Water Resources, PhD
Hydrology and water resources; Environmental change; Land use impacts; Hydrological modelling; Data assimilation and uncertainty analysis; Decision support systems; Sustainable development; Tropical hydrology. 
 Geoff Fowler

Geoff Fowler

Research Fellow, PhD, MRSC, CChem
Thermal and microwave pyrolysis; activated carbon production and application; Contaminated land treatment; Hazardous waste management; Composite recycling; Water jetting.
 Nigel Graham

Nigel Graham

Professor of Environmental Engineering, MA, MSc, PhD, DIC, ScD(Cantab), FICE, FIChemE, FCIWEMbr
Drinking water and wastewater treatment technologies; Treatment process evaluation and modelling; Intermediate technology methods; Water supply management and systems; Water quality modelling; Oxidation, coagulation and filtration processes. 
 Sue Grimes

Sue Grimes

Professor and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Waste and Resource Management, PhD, MBA, DipMRS, CSci. CChem. FRSC, CEnv, MCIWM
Recovery of value components from wastes for conversion to commercially useful products; Closed-loop methodologies towards resource efficiency; Decision-support tools for sustainable waste management.
Po-Heng (Henry) Lee

Po-Heng (Henry) Lee

Senior Lecturer in Wastewater Engineering, PhD
Anaerobic biotechnology, i.e., fermentation, digestion, anammox, quantum-induced metabolism, for mining resources from wastewaters with thermodynamic and meta'omic techniques
 Ana Mijic

Ana Mijic

Senior Lecturer in Urban Water Management, PhD, DIC
Urban hydrology and urban ecosystems; Groundwater-sewer interactions; Urban water and energy use; Water resources assessment and climate change mitigation.
 Christian Onof

Christian Onof

Reader in Stochastic Environmental Systems, PhD, DIC, FSS
Stochastic modeling of precipitation related variables and the impact of climate change upon hydrological variables. 
 Athanasios Paschalis

Athanasios Paschalis

Lecturer in Hydrology, PhD
Stochastic modelling of rainfall; Probability theory and statistics; Ecohydrology and water/soil/plant atmosphere interactions; Physically based modelling for catchment hydrology; Natural hazard risk analysis.
 Stephen Smith

Stephen R. Smith

Professor of Bioresource Systems, BSc, PhD, MCIWM, MCIWEM, C.WEM, CEnv
Head of Environmental and Water Resources (EWRE) Section 
Bioresources management, treatment, land application, agronomic value, environmental and health impact; Energy products from biodegradable solid waste. 
 Ivan Stoianov

Ivan Stoianov

Senior Lecturer in Water Systems Engineering, PhD
Modelling and optimal control of water supply and wastewater systems : Sensing and monitoring of civil engineering infrastructure; Founder of the InfraSense lab.
 Mike Templeton

Michael Templeton

Professor of Public Health Engineering, PhD, CEng, FICE
Drinking water quality and treatment; Chemical and microbiological contaminants in water; Disinfection processes; Disinfection by-products ; Water and sanitation for developing countries. 
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Environmental Engineering Research Staff A-Z

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 Greta Antonini

Greta Antonini

Project Administrator
Community Water Management for a Liveable London (CAMELLIA)
Landslide EVO
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 Arash Hamzehloo

Arash Hamzehloo

Research Associate, PhD
Development of numerical techniques and CFD codes for flow and transport in complex porous media. 
CFD, Fluid Mechanics, Porous Media, Unstructured Adaptive Mesh, Subsurface Reservoir Modelling, Saline Intrusion 
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 Fabien Drenkhan

Fabian Drenkhan

Research Associate, PhD 
Glacier and water-related vulnerabilities and risks; climate change impacts and adaptation; remote sensing and hydrological modeling; transdisciplinary research and collaboration
Email Fabien
 Barnaby Dobson

Barnaby Dobson

Research Associate, PhD
Keywords: Water resources modelling; Optimization; Uncertainty and systems analysis; 
Project: Integrated urban water cycle modelling for London (as part of the Camellia project)
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Dion Kordopati

Dionysia Kordopati

Project Administrator 
Landslide EVO and SHEAR Studentship Cohort Project Manager
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 Simon Moulds

Simon Moulds

Research Associate, PhD
Hydrology; water resources management; land use change; urban hydrology and public health; hydrometry; environmental modelling; open science.
Projects: Transforming Weather Water data into value-added Information services for sustainable Growth in Africa (TWIGA); Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities. 
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 Dimitrios Nerantzis

Dimitrios Nerantzis 

Research Associate, PhD
Computational Optimisation 
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 Boris Fernando Ochoa Tocachi

Boris Fernando Ochoa Tocachi

Research Associate, PhD
Hydrological monitoring, Ecosystem services, Water resource management, Natural infrastructure, Nature-based solutions, Green Infrastructure, Source water protection, Environmental change, Hydrological modelling, Hydroinformatics, Hydroeconomics. Natural Infrastructure for Water Security, PARAGUAS
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 Filippo Pecci

Filippo Pecci

Research Associate, PhD
Computational optimisation of dynamically adaptive water supply networks
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 Hannah Rigby

Hannah Rigby

Research Associate, PhD
The potential transfer and uptake of contaminants into food arising from the use of recycled wastes in agriculture
Email Hannah
 Jonny Ritson

Jonny Ritson

Research Associate
The impact of climate change on surface water quality and drinking water treatment
Email Jonny
Thomas Rowan

Thomas Rowan

Research Associate
Community Water Management for a Liveable London (CAMELLIA); Computational hydraulics; infiltration modelling; unsaturated soil mechanics; Hydraulic Ram Pumps
Email Tom
 Sharon Russel-Verma

Sharon Russel-Verma

Project Manager
SHEAR ( Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience)  Studentship Cohort Programme 
Email Sharon
May Nyabochi Sule

May Nyabochi Sule

Research Associate
WISER: Water Infrastructure for Schistosomiasis-Endemic Regions
Email May
Zhuoying Wu

Zhuoying Wu

Research Associate, PhD
Microbiology in anaerobic biotechnology
Email Zhuoying
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Environmental Engineering Research Students A-Z

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Jarudej Asingsamanunt

Jarudej Asingsamanunt

Started Jan 2019
The study of the application of pyrolysis for the beneficial treatment and reuse of agricultural and municipal solid waste materials in the context of Circular Economy
Supervised by: Fowler, G.D.; Grimes, S.
Email Jarudej
 Emma Beirns

Emma Beirns

Started Sep 2019
Removal of amine-branch pharmaceuticals via direct interspecies electron transfer in an anaerobic fluidised-bed membrane bioreactor
Supervised by: Lee, PH.; Smith, S. R.
Email Emma
Caroline Blocher

Caroline Blocher

Started October 2016
Modelling and failure diagnosis of dynamically adaptive water supply networks
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervisor: Stoianov, I.
Email Caroline
 David Blyth

David Blyth

Started Oct 2015
Environmental fate of priority contaminants
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Butler, A.P., Fowler, G.D.
Email David
 Alex Bowles

Alex Bowles

Started Oct 2019
Climate change mitigation through adsorption onto activated carbon
Supervised by: Fowler, G.D.
Email Alex
Laura Braun

Laura Braun

Started Oct 2016
Water and sanitation interventions for the prevention of Schistosomiasis 
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Templeton, M.R.
Email Laura
 Johannes-Robert Bruch

Johannes-Robert Bruch

Started Oct 2018
Recovery of value from waste electrical and electronic equipment
Supervised by: Grimes, S.; Fowler, G.D.
Email Johannes
Yuting Chen

Yuting Chen

Started Oct 2018
Spatial-temporal rainfall modelling and climate change
Supervised by: Onof, C.; Paschalis, A.
Email Yuting
Alex Colyer

Alex Colyer

Started Oct 2018
Scale-dependent lithological variations and their control on water resources and flooding in the Eden Valley
Supervised by: Butler, A.P.; Hughes, A.; Peach, D.
Email Alex
Joe Croft

Joe Croft

Started Oct 2017
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) mineralisation, transformation and treatability in UK drinking water catchments
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Graham, N.J.; Templeton, M.R; Brazier, R (University of Exeter); Clark, J. (University of Reading)
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Maryam Dewiandratika

Maryam Dewiandratika

Started Mar 2019
Pretreatment using coal fly ash and food waste to enhance methane production from anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic agricultural residues
Supervised by: Grimes, S.; Smith, S. R.
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 Mohamad El Hattab

Mohamad El Hattab

Started Dec 2015
Techno-economic evaluation of SuDs performance at the full scale
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Mijic, A., Onof, C.
Email Mohamad
Lizzie Ellison

Lizzie Ellison

Started Oct 2018
Carbon dioxide sequestration through ocean fertilization and potential for harvest of calcium carbonate from marine organisms
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Mashayek, A; Cheeseman, C.R.
Email Lizzie
 Moisés Gómez Soto

Moisés Gómez Soto

Started Oct 2017
Value recovery from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Supervisor: Grimes, S.; Fowler, G.D.
Email Moisés
 Marc Heitmann

Marc Heitmann

Started Oct 2016
The development and optimisation of pilot scale sustainable sewage sludge treatment technologies with energy and materials recovery 
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervisor: Fowler, G.D.
Email Marc
Lucinda Hazell

Lucinda Hazell

Started Oct 2017
Sustainable water treatment methods for preventing Schistosomiasis
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Templeton, M.R
Email Lucinda
 Liying Jiang

Liying Jiang

Started Feb 2019
Fungal-microbial interactions impacting the physico-chemical and structural integrity of concrete
Supervised by: Smith, S. R.; Buenfeld, N. 
Email Liying
Benedict Krueger

Benedict Krueger

Started Dec 2017
The generation of BioChar from Pit Latrine sludge – a Unique challenge & opportunity for resource management and valorisation at a local scale in developing countries 
Supervised by: Templeton, M.R; Fowler, G.D.
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Amanda Larasati

Amanda Larasati

Started Oct 2016
In-situ regeneration of activated carbon for water treatment
Supervised by: Graham, N.J., Fowler, G.D.
Email Amanda
 Jin Liu

Jin Liu

Started: Feb 2016
Critical assessment of sewage sludge MAD
Supervised by: Smith, S. R.
Email Jin
 Leyang Liu

Leyang Liu

Started: Aug 2019
Multi-level hierarchical optimisation for a whole-water system model
Supervised by: Mijic, A.; Jackson, C. 
Email Leyang
Teng Liu

Teng Liu

Started: Jan 2017
Membrane technology for water treatment
Supervised by: Graham, N.J.
Email Teng
Ziyi Liu

Ziyi Liu

Started: Jan 2017
Bio-enzymes recovery from waste activated sludge 
Supervised by: Smith, S. R.
Email Ziyi
Sean McBeath

Sean McBeath

Started Oct 2017
Novel electrochemical processes for water treatment
Supervised by: Graham, N.J.
Email Sean
 Ioannis Moustakis

Ioannis Moustakis

Started Jul 2018
Quantification of future risk of flooding under climate change using probabilistic framework analysis
Supervised by: Paschalis, A.; Onof, C.
Email Ioannis
 Samer Muhandes

Samer Muhandes

Started Oct 2015
Interaction between SUDS and groundwater: impacts on design and implications for long-term sustainability
Supervised by: Mijic, A., Butler, A.P
Email Samer
Cameron Murphy

Cameron Murphy

Started Oct 2018
Biogeochemical controls on source zone depletion at petrochemical sites
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Butler, A.P; Fowler, G.D.
Email Cameron
 Pepe Puchol-Salort

Pepe Puchol-Salort

Started Sep 2018
Infrastructure ecology framework for sustainable urban planning and water management
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Mijic, A.; van Reeuwijk, M.
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Nick Reynard

Nick Reynard

Started Oct 2018
Carbon dioxide sequestration through iron fertilization and potential for harvest of calcium carbonate from marine organisms
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Mashayek, A; Cheeseman, C.R.
Email Nick
 Azucena Rodriguez Yebra

Azucena Rodriguez Yebra

Started Oct 2014
Understanding the interactions between adited groundwater sources and the chalk acquifer under drought conditions.
Supervised by: Butler, A.P
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 Neeraj Sah

Neeraj Sah

Started Mar 2018
Low-cost sensor networks for flood and drought monitoring and forecasting
Supervised by: Buytaert. W
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 Laure Sione

Laure Sione

Started Oct 2014
Coupling intermittent renewable energy and desalinisation for climate-resilient cities
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Templeton, M.R., Onof, C.
Email Laure
 Anna Twomlow

Anna Twomlow  

Started Feb 2018
Interactive visualisation and communication of hydrological information to support multi-level natural hazard reduction and resilience building.
Supervised by: Buytaert. W
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Aly-Joy Ulusoy

Aly-Joy Ulusoy

Started Oct 2016
Dynamically adaptive water supply networks
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Stoianov, I.
Email Aly-Joy
Will Veness

Will Veness 

Started Oct 2019
Groundwater and conflict in the Horn of Africa
Supervised by: Buytaert. W; Butler, A.P
Email Will
Amy Wilson

Amy Wilson

Started Oct 2018
Reducing the impact of nanoparticle emissions during concrete production and recycling
Supervised by: Stettler, MEJ.; Wong, H.S.; Fowler, G.D.
Email Amy 
Alex Waldron

Alex Waldron

Started Oct 2017
Design and control of intelligent water networks with dynamically configurable network topologies
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Stoianov, I.
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 Euan Wilson

Euan (Robert) Wilson

Started Oct 2015
Breaking the biofuels code: Towards reliable water quality sensing (in-pipe, reagent free)
Supervised by: Stoianov, I., O'Hare, D. 
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Anas Yazid

Anas Yazid

Started Jan 2019
An-aerobic digestion of tannery wastes
Supervised by: Smith, S. R.
Email Anas
Ziyan Zhang

Ziyan Zhang

Started Oct 2018
Modelling the impact of constructed urban wetlands to flood and nitrogen retention
Supervised by: Paschalis, A.; Mijic, A.
Email Ziyan
Hongmin Zhu

Hongmin Zhu

Started May 2019
Reliability analysis for repairable and redundant civil infrastructure systems using Grey-Weibull Estimation and Vector Autoregression
Supervised by: Whyte, J.; Onof, C.
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Charles Zogheib

Charles Zogheib

Started Oct 2016
Polycentric water resources assessment and governance in data-scarce regions
As part of the CDT in Sustainable Civil Engineering
Supervised by: Buytaert, W., Mijic, A.
Email Charles
Environment Research Students A-Z
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Environmental Emeritus, Senior Research Investigators, Visitors

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Cedo Maksimovic

Cedo Maksimovic

Emeritus Professor, PhD
Applied fluid mechanics in urban water systems: storm drainage, urban flooding water supply and interactions of urban water systems and infrastructure with the environment. 
 Howard Wheater

Professor Howard Wheater

Senior Research Investigator, Distinguished Research Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Hydrology
Professor Howard Wheater is Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureat in Water Security and Director, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan. A leading expert in hydrological science, he has extensive international experience of flood, water resource and surface and groundwater quality management. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and AGU and won the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water.
Emeritus and Senior Research Investigators
Emeritus and Senior Research Investigators

Visiting and honorary staff

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David Balmforth Visiting Professor: Technical Director with international consultants MWH, specialising in flood risk management, water pollution control and climate change adaptation. Industrial Advisory Panel member of Environmental Engineering MSc course.
John Donaldson Visiting Professor
Neil McIntyre Visiting Professor
Denis Peach Visiting Professor
Mrs Hilary Stone Visitor 
James Lau  Visitor 
Ana Pitol Sponsored Researcher
David Wilson Senior Research Investigator, Visiting Professor: Independent consultant in waste and resources management, specialising in high-level policy and strategy work. Industrial Advisory Panel member of Environmental Engineering MSc course.
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Administration and Technical staff

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 Judith Barritt

Judith Barritt

MSc Cluster Administrator, EWRE
Room 230, +44 (0)207 594 5967, Email Judith
Tom Kelly

Tom (Thomas) Kelly

Laboratory Technician, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Room 507, +44 (0)207 594 5970, Email Tom
 Ángel Nievas-Pino

Ángel Nievas-Pino

Laboratory Technician, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Room 120b, +44 (0)207 594 1214, Email Ángel
Administrative and Technical Staff
Administration contacts

Below you will find listings of the member of our research section. If you would like to find out more about any aspect of our work, we would be delighted to hear from you. 

Professor Stephen Smith, Head of the Environmental and Water Resources Section 
Professor of Bioresource Systems, BSc, PhD, MCIWM, MCIWEM, C.WEM, CEnv