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Environmental Engineering Academic and Teaching Staff A-Z

Environment Academics A-Z
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	Adrian Butler Professor of Subsurface Hydrology, DIC, PhD, FRMetS, FGS Sub surface flow and transport processes and their environmental impact.
	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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
	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

Environment Academics A-Z
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	Greta Antonini Project Administrator Community Water Management for a Liveable London (CAMELLIA) Landslide EVO Email Greta
	Meissam Bahlali Research Associate, PhD Development of unstructured adaptive mesh modelling techniques for density-dependent flow and solute transport in complex porous media. Application to saline intrusion in coastal aquifers and subsurface reservoir studies. Email Meissam
	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 Email Arash
	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
	Dionysia Kordopati Project Administrator Landslide EVO and SHEAR Studentship Cohort Project Manager Email Dion
	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. Email Simon
	Dimitrios Nerantzis Research Associate, PhD Computational Optimisation Email Dimitrios
	Jimmy O'Keeffe Research Associate, PhD Coupled Human and Natural Systems Environment (CHANSE) Email Jimmy
	Jonathan Paul Research Associate, PhD NERC-funded Landslide EVO project Email Jonathan
	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 Email Boris
	Filippo Pecci Research Associate, PhD Computational optimisation of dynamically adaptive water supply networks Email Filippo
	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 Research Associate The impact of climate change on surface water quality and drinking water treatment Email Jonny
	Thomas Rowan Research Associate Email Tom
	Sharon Russel-Verma Project Manager SHEAR ( Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience) Studentship Cohort Programme Email Sharon
	May Nyabochi Sule Research Associate WISER: Water Infrastructure for Schistosomiasis-Endemic Regions Email May
	Li-Pen Wang Research Associate, PhD Email Li-Pen
	Zhuoying Wu Research Associate, PhD Microbiology in anaerobic biotechnology Email Zhuoying
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Environmental Engineering Research Students A-Z

Environment Academics A-Z
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	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
	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 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
	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 Started Oct 2018 Recovery of value from waste electrical and electronic equipment Supervised by: Grimes, S.; Fowler, G.D. Email Johannes
	Yuting Chen Started Oct 2018 Spatial-temporal rainfall modelling and climate change Supervised by: Onof, C.; Paschalis, A. Email Yuting
	Hsi-Kai Chou Started Oct 2015 Citizen science in hydrology and water resources Supervised by: Buytaert, W. Email Hsi-Kai
	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 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) Email Joe
	Simon De Stercke Started Oct 2014 Sustainable cities in the context of water energy interactions Supervised by: Mijic, A. Email Simon
	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 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 Started Oct 2017 Value recovery from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Supervisor: Grimes, S.; Fowler, G.D. Email Moisés
	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 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 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 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. Email Ben
	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 Started: Feb 2016 Critical assessment of sewage sludge MAD Supervised by: Smith, S. R. Email Jin
	Leyang Liu Started: Aug 2019 Multi-level hierarchical optimisation for a whole-water system model Supervised by: Mijic, A. Email Leyang
	Teng Liu Started: Jan 2017 Membrane technology for water treatment Supervised by: Graham, N.J. Email Teng
	Ziyi Liu Started: Jan 2017 Bio-enzymes recovery from waste activated sludge Supervised by: Smith, S. R. Email Ziyi
	Sean McBeath Started Oct 2017 Novel electrochemical processes for water treatment Supervised by: Graham, N.J. Email Sean
	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
	Kenneth Muniina Started Oct 2011 Performance of decentralised interventions in urban water systems of the developing world Supervised by: Maksimovic, C., Graham, N.J. Email Kenneth
	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 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
	Rui Daniel Da Silva Pina Started Nov 2013 Blue-green urban flood modelling Supervised by: Maksimovic, C., Mijic, A. Email Rui
	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. Email Pepe
	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 Started Oct 2014 Understanding the interactions between adited groundwater sources and the chalk acquifer under drought conditions. Supervised by: Butler, A.P Email Azucena
	Neeraj Sah Started Mar 2018 Low-cost sensor networks for flood and drought monitoring and forecasting Supervised by: Buytaert. W Email Neeraj
	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 Started Feb 2018 Interactive visualisation and communication of hydrological information to support multi-level natural hazard reduction and resilience building. Supervised by: Buytaert. W Email Anna
	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
	Mike Vaughan Started Oct 2008 Extrapolation of rainfall-runoff models for real-time flood forecasting Supervised by: McIntyre, N. Email Mike
	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 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. Email Alex
	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. Email Euan
	Anas Yazid Started Jan 2019 An-aerobic digestion of tannery wastes Supervised by: Smith, S. R. Email Anas
	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 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. Email Hongmin
	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
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Environmental Emeritus, Senior Research Investigators, Visitors

Emeritus and Senior Research Investigators
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	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.
	Professor Howard Wheater Senior Research Investigator, Distinguished Research Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Hydrology Professor Howard Wheater is Canada Excellence Research Chair 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

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.
Michael Beck	Visiting Professor
John Donaldson	Visiting Professor
Paul Hardisty	Visiting Professor: Global Director of Sustainability and EcoNomics for WorleyParsons, Member of the Grantham Inst. for Climate change
Paul Leinster	Visiting Professor
Neil McIntyre	Visiting Professor
Denis Peach	Visiting Professor
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.
Visiting and Honorary staff

Administration and Technical staff

Administration contacts
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	Judith Barritt MSc Cluster Administrator, EWRE Room 230, +44 (0)207 594 5967, Email Judith
	Tom (Thomas) Kelly Laboratory Technician, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Room 507, +44 (0)207 594 5970, Email Tom
	Ángel Nievas-Pino Laboratory Technician, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Room 120b, +44 (0)207 594 1214, Email Ángel
Administrative and Technical Staff

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

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Environmental Engineering Academic and Teaching Staff A-Z

Environmental Engineering Research Staff A-Z

Greta Antonini

Arash Hamzehloo

Fabian Drenkhan

Dionysia Kordopati

Simon Moulds

Dimitrios Nerantzis

Filippo Pecci

Thomas Rowan

Sharon Russel-Verma

Li-Pen Wang

Zhuoying Wu

Environmental Engineering Research Students A-Z

Jarudej Asingsamanunt

Caroline Blocher

David Blyth

Johannes-Robert Bruch

Yuting Chen

Hsi-Kai Chou

Alex Colyer

Joe Croft

Simon De Stercke

Mohamad El Hattab

Lizzie Ellison

Moisés Gómez Soto

Marc Heitmann

Liying Jiang

Benedict Krueger

Amanda Larasati

Jin Liu

Leyang Liu

Teng Liu

Ziyi Liu

Sean McBeath

Ioannis Moustakis

Kenneth Muniina

Samer Muhandes

Cameron Murphy

Rui Daniel Da Silva Pina

Pepe Puchol-Salort

Nick Reynard

Azucena Rodriguez Yebra

Neeraj Sah

Laure Sione

Anna Twomlow

Aly-Joy Ulusoy

Mike Vaughan

Amy Wilson

Alex Waldron

Euan (Robert) Wilson

Anas Yazid

Ziyan Zhang

Hongmin Zhu

Charles Zogheib

Environmental Emeritus, Senior Research Investigators, Visitors

Visiting and honorary staff

Administration and Technical staff

Judith Barritt

Tom (Thomas) Kelly

Ángel Nievas-Pino