Earth and Life Sciences
Affiliates with expertise in Earth Sciences
Professor Peter A. Allison
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Professor Peter A. Allison
Ocean modelling / Palaeobiology / Fossil preservation / Evolutionary change / Epi-continental seas
Dr Cristina Banks-Leite
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Dr Cristina Banks-Leite
Impacts and adaptation / Ecosystems / Biodiversity / Tropical forests / Habitat disturbance
Dr Ian Bastow
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Dr Ian Bastow
Seismology to understand Earth structure / Volcanically active East African Rift
Professor Thomas Bell
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Professor Thomas Bell
Ecology and evolution of microbial communities
Professor Martin Bidartondo
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Professor Martin Bidartondo
Ecology and evolution of terrestrial ecosystems / Nitrogen pollution across European forests
Professor Martin Blunt
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Professor Martin Blunt
Flow in porous media / CCS
Dr Pablo Brito-Parada
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Dr Pablo Brito-Parada
Professor Mark Burgman
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Professor Mark Burgman
Conservation biology and risk assessment / Ecological modelling
Dr Emma Cavan
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Dr Emma Cavan
Microbes in biogeochemical cycles / Effect of chemical pollution and warming on ecosystems
Dr Sankalp Chaturvedi
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Dr Sankalp Chaturvedi
Leadership / Mindfulness / Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) and Interpersonal Trust
Dr Erik Chavez
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Dr Erik Chavez
Impacts and adaptation / Engineering / Biophysics / Early warning systems / Risk transfer
Professor Jenny Collier
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Professor Jenny Collier
Earth and planets / Earth systems / Engineering
Dr Alexandra Collins
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Dr Alexandra Collins
Environmental sustainability / Ecosystem services / Policy / Impacts and adaptation
Professor John Cosgrove
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Professor John Cosgrove
Earth's crust / Movement of fluids through rocks / Fractured rock masses / Structural geology
Dr Ning Dong
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Dr Ning Dong
Plant trait ecology / Carbon-nitrogen
Dr Catalina Estrada Montes
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Dr Catalina Estrada Montes
Ecology
Ms Alyssa Gilbert
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Ms Alyssa Gilbert
Policy / Innovation
Dr Richard J. Gill
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Dr Richard J. Gill
Evolutionary biology / Ecology / Anthropogenic influences on animal populations and biodiversity
Professor Gary Hampson
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Professor Gary Hampson
Reservoir characterisation and modelling
Professor Christopher Hankin
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Professor Christopher Hankin
Cyber security / Data analytics / Semantics-based program analysis
Dr John Heap
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Dr John Heap
Mitigation / Synthetic biology / Environmentally friendly production mechanisms
Professor Matthew Jackson
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Professor Matthew Jackson
Transport processes in heterogeneous geological porous media
Dr Cédric John
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Dr Cédric John
Carbonate systems and carbonate reservoirs
Professor Mirko Kovac
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Professor Mirko Kovac
Robot design, hardware development and multi-modal robot mobility
Dr James Lawrence
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Dr James Lawrence
Geotechnics / Engineering / Earth systems
Dr Karen E. Makuch
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Dr Karen E. Makuch
Environmental law / Policy / International law / Environmental rights of children / Citizen science
Dr Ralf Martin
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Dr Ralf Martin
Climate change policies / Reducing greenhouse emissions / Climate and business policy
Dr Ali Mashayek
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Dr Ali Mashayek
Geophysical fluid dynamics / Density stratified turbulence / Ocean turbulence & circulation
Dr Morena Mills
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Dr Morena Mills
Biodiversity conservation; social science.
Dr James Murray
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Dr James Murray
Structural & synthetic biology of photosynthesis / Artificial photosynthesis - sunlight for fuels
Professor Adrian Muxworthy
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Professor Adrian Muxworthy
Earth and planetary magnetism; evolution of volcanic processes
Dr Panos Parpas
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Dr Panos Parpas
Quantitative Analysis and Decision Science / Development and analysis of algorithms
Dr Samraat Pawar
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Dr Samraat Pawar
Ecosystem dynamics and stability
Dr Will Pearse
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Dr Will Pearse
Origins and future of biodiversity
Dr Yves Plancherel
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Dr Yves Plancherel
Environmental change / Pollution / Environmental geochemistry / Climate modelling / Oceanography
Dr Sunday Popo-Ola
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Dr Sunday Popo-Ola
Concrete structures / Steel structures / Systems and mechanics
Dr Ivana Popovic
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Dr Ivana Popovic
Pathway to net zero / Nature positive futures / Sustainable development
Professor Andy Purvis
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Professor Andy Purvis
Modelling biodiversity responses to human impacts / Macroevolution / Phylogenetics
Dr Emma Ransome
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Dr Emma Ransome
Microbial communities in aquatic ecosystems
Professor Guillermo Rein
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Professor Guillermo Rein
Heat transfer / Combustion / Fire science
Dr Fred Richards
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Dr Fred Richards
Mantle dynamics, sea-level change, ice dynamics
Dr Gareth Roberts
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Dr Gareth Roberts
Computational methods to extract & invert large drainage inventories for uplift of Earth's surface
Dr Dylan Rood
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Dr Dylan Rood
Application of cosmogenic isotopes and accelerator mass spectrometry to studies in the Earth Science
Dr Nina Schleicher
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Dr Nina Schleicher
Air quality / Isotope geochemistry
Dr Julia Schroeder
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Dr Julia Schroeder
Impacts and adaptation / Ecology and evolution
Dr Mark Sutton
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Dr Mark Sutton
Palaeobiology and evolution / 3D reconstruction techniques / Computing applications in Earth science
Dr Alireza Tamaddoni Nezhad
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Dr Alireza Tamaddoni Nezhad
Artificial Intelligence / Machine learning / Ecological networks / Impacts of warming on ecosystems
Professor Tina van de Flierdt
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Professor Tina van de Flierdt
Isotope geochemistry / Paleoceanography / Paleoclimate
Professor Alfried Vogler
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Professor Alfried Vogler
Molecular systematist / Phylogeny and evolution of species diversity in insects
Dr Christopher Waite
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Dr Christopher Waite
Impacts and adaptation / Systems biology / Gene regulatory networks
Dr Bonnie Waring
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Dr Bonnie Waring
Plant, microbial and ecosystem ecology
Dr Alex Whittaker
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Dr Alex Whittaker
Tectonics / Climate / Erosion and sedimentation
Dr Mark H W Workman
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Dr Mark H W Workman
Whole system analysis / Energy transitions / Environmental and climate change / Conflict
Professor Robert Zimmerman
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Professor Robert Zimmerman
Rock mechanics