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Cohort 4

  • Courtnae Bailey

    Personal details

    Courtnae Bailey PhD Student

    Location

    Centre for Environmental Policy

    Research

    Project Title:
    Translating the financial benefits of climate-resilient infrastructure through the Sustainable Development Goals

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Resources and Pollution
    Eonomics and Finance

  • Matthew Barker

    Personal details

    Matthew Barker PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Mathematics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Mean-field games and the transition from fossil fuels to lowcarbon

    Themes

    tbc

  • Hamish Beath

    Personal details

    Hamish Beath PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Physics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Designing low carbon pathways for rural electrification

    Themes

    tbc

  • Kelvin Tsz Hei Choi

    Personal details

    Kelvin Tsz Hei Choi PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Physics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Building a long-term record of the global solar energy resource from satellite observations

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Resources and Pollution

  • Susannah Gold

    Personal details

    Susannah Gold PhD Student

    Location

    School of Public Health

    Research

    Project Title:
    Integrating human and wildlife health: the case of nonfatal rabies in Africa

    Themes

    tbc

  • Fumi Hayashi

    Personal details

    Fumi Hayashi PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Physics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Warm and cold paths for ocean-atmosphere coupling in midlatitudes

    Themes

    tbc

  • Sarah Hayes

    Personal details

    Sarah Hayes PhD Student

    Location

    School of Public Health

    Research

    Project Title:
    Mathematical understanding of the multi-species biological networks underpinning rabies transmission dynamics

    Themes

    tbc

  • Louis Hennequin

    Personal details

    Louis Hennequin PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Chemical Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Phytoremediation for Renewable Energy: Energy Production During Decontamination

    Themes

    tbc

  • Daniel Kenna

    Personal details

    Daniel Kenna PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Life Sciences

    Research

    Project Title:
    Social bee success in fragmented agricultural landscapes

    Themes

    tbc

  • Jenna Lawson

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    Jenna Lawson PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Life Sciences

    Research

    Project Title:
    Bringing the Geoffroy’s spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi ) back from the brink of extinction in Costa Rica

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Emily Lewis-Brown

    Personal details

    Emily Lewis-Brown PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Life Sciences

    Research

    Project Title:
    Understanding the adoption and spread of marine community-based conservation

    Themes

    tbc

  • Joss Lyons-White

    Personal details

    Joss Lyons-White PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Life Sciences

    Research

    Project Title:
    Changing Palms: Designing Strategies for Positive Institutional Behaviour Change to Address Land-Use Change and Mitigate Climate Change in the Palm Oil Industry

    Research Themes:
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Sinead Lyster

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    Sinead Lyster PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Reconstructing erosion and sediment supply from the continents in deep time – examples from the Cretaceous

    Themes

    tbc

  • Luqman Hakim Mohd Azmi

    Personal details

    Luqman Hakim Mohd Azmi PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Chemical Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Modification of advanced separation materials including metal organic frameworks for water processing applications and air purification. 

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Resources and Pollution

  • Diego Moya Pinta

    Personal details

    Diego Moya Pinta PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Chemical Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Global energy system modelling for the decarbonisation of the building sector

    Themes

    tbc

  • Hollie Packman

    Personal details

    Hollie Packman PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Stable isotope tracing of zinc, copper and cadmium from anthropogenic and natural sources to the ocean

    Themes
    Earth and Life Sciences, Resources and Pollution

  • Anna Rood

    Personal details

    Anna Rood PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Validating Ground Motion Models For Critical Engineered Structures Using Fragile Geologic Features

    Themes

    tbc

  • Henrike Schulte to Bühne

    Personal details

    Henrike Schulte to Bühne PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Life Sciences

    Research

    Project Title:
    Do climate and land use changes interact to precipitate biodiversity loss?

    Research Themes:
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Jennifer Shadrick

    Personal details

    Jennifer Shadrick PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Sciences

    Research

    Project Title:
    Will climate change make coastal erosion rates faster?: Comparing historic and Holocene cliff retreat rates using cosmogenic isotopes with numerical models

    Themes

    tbc

  • Annalisa Sheehan

    Personal details

    Annalisa Sheehan PhD Student

    Location

    School of Public Health

    Research

    Project Title:
    Geospatial Estimation of Non-Exhaust Emissions using Remote Earth Observation

    Research Themes:
    Resources and Pollution

  • Jennifer Shelton

    Personal details

    Jennifer Shelton PhD Student

    Location

    School of Public Health

    Research

    Project Title:
    Linking aerosol fungal biodiversity to environmental change and human health

    Themes

    tbc

  • Mohan Smith

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    Mohan Smith PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Physics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Applications of artificial intelligence to satellite data for extreme weather forecasts

    Themes

    tbc

  • Nixon Sunny

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    Nixon Sunny PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Chemical Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Development of an open-source systems modelling framework for H2-CCS integrated applications in Europe

    Themes

    tbc

  • Chris Wells

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    Chris Wells PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Physics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Human health co-benefits from climate change mitigation

    Themes

    tbc

  • Peter Zheng

    Personal details

    Peter Zheng PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Aeornautics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Automated monitoring of rainforest biophysical structure from aerial platforms

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences

Cohort 5

  • Alex Colyer

    Personal details

    Alex Colyer PhD Student

    Location

    British Geological Survey

    Research

    Project Title:
    Scale-dependent lithological variations and their control on water resources and flooding in the Eden Valley

    Research Themes:

    tbc

  • Nicholas Dunn

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    Nicholas Dunn PhD Student

    Location

    Zoological Society London

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    Developing environmental DNA methods to assess the distribution of cryptic sharks and rays

    Research Themes:
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Neil Grant

    Personal details

    Neil Grant PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Chemical Engineering

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    Understanding the costs of mitigating climate change

    Research Themes:
    Energy & Low-Carbon Futures
    Resources and Pollution
    Eonomics and Finance

  • Liam Holder

    Personal details

    Liam Holder PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    Production and Export of Ross Sea Bottom Water Through Periods of Dramatic Climate Change

    Research Themes:
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Clive Jackson

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    Clive Jackson PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Life Sciences

    Research

    Project Title:
    The evolution of sexual orientation: is homosexuality a Darwinian paradox?

    Research Themes:
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Swapnil Japtap

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    Swapnil Japtap PhD Student

    Location

    Department of ivil and Environmental Engineering

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    Minimising socio-environmental impacts of aircraft engine performance through integrated multi-disciplinary design analysis and optimisation

    Research Themes
    Energy and low-carbon futures

  • Phillip Jervis

    Personal details

    Phillip Jervis PhD Student

    Location

    Zoological Society of London

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    The key to controlling infectious diseases in nature: islands in the sea and sky

    Research Themes:

    tbc

  • Nerine Joewondo

    Personal details

    Nerine Joewondo PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Chemical Engineering

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    Imaging and modeling the fate of trapped gas in porous media

    Research Themes

    tbc

  • Galina Jönsson

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    Galina Jönsson PhD Student

    Location

    UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    Understanding the past to predict the future of distribution change in British Lepidoptera

    Research Themes:
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Alexander Lipp

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    Alexander Lipp PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    Modeling landscape evolution through space and time: Histories of physical and chemical denudation

    Research Themes

    tbc

  • Elysia Lucas

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    Elysia Lucas PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Chemical Engineering

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    Data-driven modelling and linear programming to study sustainable food system pathways

    Research Themes:
    Energy & Low-Carbon Futures
    Resources and Pollution
    Health

  • James Marschalek

    Personal details

    James Marschalek PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet under Changing Environmental Condition

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Thomas Matthews

    Personal details

    Thomas Matthews PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    Titanite occurrence and chemistry as a monitor of melt redox state, magmatic fertility and hydrothermal alteration in porphyry ore systems

    Research Themes

    tbc

  • Daniel Mehlig

    Personal details

    Daniel Mehlig PhD Student

    Location

    Centre for Environmental Policy

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    Electrification of London’s car fleet and benefits for air quality

    Research Themes
    Energy and Low Carbon Futures
    Resources and Pollution
    Health

  • Thomas Merry

    Personal details

    Thomas Merry PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science & Engineering

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    The neotectonics and seismic hazard of Cyprus

    Research Themes:
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Sally, Musungu

    Personal details

    Sally, Musungu PhD Student

    Location

    Centre for Environmental Policy

    Research

    Project Title:
    Impacts of climate change on the banana farming system and pest trends in Uganda.

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Chetan Nathwani

    Personal details

    Chetan Nathwani PhD Student

    Location

    Natural HIstory Museum

     

    Research

    Project Title:
    Developing tools for the sustainable exploration of epithermal ore deposits: alteration mineral chemistry for targeting and assessment of fertility

    Research Themes:
    Earth and Life Sciences
    Pollution

  • Geraint Northwood Smith

    Personal details

    Geraint Northwood Smith PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Comparison of terrestrial and Martian fluvio-lacustrine palaeoenvironments

    Research Themes
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Andreas Olympios

    Personal details

    Andreas Olympios PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Chemical Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
     Multiscale modelling for the design of low-carbon energy systems 

    Research Themes:
    Energy & Low-Carbon Futures

  • Paloma Ortega Arriaga

    Personal details

    Paloma Ortega Arriaga PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Physics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Rural electrification strategies to address energy access and climate change mitigation

    Research Themes
    Energy and Low Carbon Futures

  • Lily Peck

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    Lily Peck PhD Student

    Location

    Department of LIfe Sciences

    Research

    Project Title:
    Predicting the evolutionary responses of crop pathogens to climate change

    Research Themes:
    Climate Sciene 
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Sadie Robertson

    Personal details

    Sadie Robertson PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Physics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Spacecraft observations of magnetic reconnection using MMS

    Research Themes

    tbc

  • Pietro Salvi

    Personal details

    Pietro Salvi PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Physics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Improving our understanding of radiative forcing and feedback

    Research Themes

    tbc

  • Eric Schoenrock

    Personal details

    Eric Schoenrock PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Physics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Estimating and attributing regional methane emissions using innovative atmospheric measurements

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Resources and Pollution

  • Toral Shah

    Personal details

    Toral Shah PhD Student

    Location

    Royal Botanical Gardens (Kew)

    Research

    Project Title:
    The evolutionary history and diversity of the Mickey Mouse plants (The genus Ochna, Ochnaceae)

    Research Themes 
    Climate Science
    Earth
    Life Sciences

  • Carl Thomas

    Personal details

    Carl Thomas PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Physics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Using machine learning to constrain the atmospheric dynamics contribution to regional climate change

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science

  • Laura Warwick

    Personal details

    Laura Warwick PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Physics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Investigating the impact of IR surface emissivity knowledge & uncertainties on climate & weather-forecasting timescales

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science

People

  • Jonathan Adams

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    Jonathan Adams PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Exploring terrestrial geological evidence for past glaciation and volcanism in the Thwaites Glacier catchment, Antarctica

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Marcus Annegarn

    Personal details

    Marcus Annegarn PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Materials

    Research

    Project Title:
    Understanding the atomic and electronic structure of particulate matter from theory and experiment

    Research Themes:
    Resources and Pollution

  • Lois Baker

    Personal details

    Lois Baker PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Transition to turbulence in topographically induced wave breaking. An investigation into the mechanisms of lee wave turbulence and implications for the buoyancy and momentum budget of the Southern Ocean

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Richard Belcher

    Personal details

    Richard Belcher PhD Student

    Location

    School of Public Health

    Research

    Project Title:
    Understanding Effect Modifiers of the Relationship Between Health and Exposure to Urban Green and Blue Space

    Research Themes:
    Health

  • Alex Bowles

    Personal details

    Alex Bowles PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Development of activated carbons from End-of-life Tyre rubber Char for Carbon Capture and storage, for application in the global cement industry

    Themes
    tbc

  • MIles Capper

    Personal details

    MIles Capper PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science & Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Novel Applications of Trace Metal Stable Isotopes in Medical Research

    Themes
    Earth and Life Sciences
    Health

  • Georgina Charnley

    Personal details

    Georgina Charnley PhD Student

    Location

    School of Public Health

    Research

    Project Title:
    Infectious disease outbreaks as a consequence of disaster-related risk factors

    Research Themes:
    Health

  • Lizzie Ellison

    Personal details

    Lizzie Ellison PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    The role of diapycnal mixing on ocean biogeochemical cycles

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Ethan Errington

    Personal details

    Ethan Errington PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Chemical Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Engineered Lyophilic Nanoparticles for Fat Recovery for Fat Recovery from Waste Streams .

    Themes
    tbc

  • Albert Fabregas-Flavia

    Personal details

    Albert Fabregas-Flavia PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Bioengineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Building tools and technologies for self-regulated nitrogen fixation in plant-associated bacteria

    Research Themes:
    Earth and Life Sciences
    Resources and Pollution

  • Euan Furness

    Personal details

    Euan Furness PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Engineered Lyophilic Nanoparticles for Fat Recovery for Fat Recovery from Waste Streams

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Daniel Greenblatt

    Personal details

    Daniel Greenblatt PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Transition to zero-pollution transport through optimal hybrid powertrains

    Research Themes:
    Energy & Low-Carbon Futures
    Resources and Pollution

  • Krista Haltunnen

    Personal details

    Krista Haltunnen PhD Student

    Location

    Centre for Environmental Policy

    Research

    Project Title:
    Exploring low-carbon transition responses in the global oil industry

    Research Themes:
    Energy & Low-Carbon Futures
    Eonomics and Finance

  • Catrin Harris

    Personal details

    Catrin Harris PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Advanced petrophysics for the characterisation of trapping mechanisms for CO2 storage in the subsurface

    Research Themes:
    Energy & Low Carbon Futures

  • Emma Hibbett

    Personal details

    Emma Hibbett PhD Student

    Location

    Centre for Environmental Policy

    Research

    Project Title:
    Improving the management of urban air pollution: a novel morphogenetic approach

    Research Themes:
    tbc

  • Caitlin Hinson

    Personal details

    Caitlin Hinson PhD Student

    Location

    Centre for Environmental Policy

    Research

    Project Title:
    Investigating the use of natural capital concepts for participatory approaches to integrated water management 

    Research Themes:
    Resources and Pollution

  • Victoria Hoare

    Personal details

    Victoria Hoare PhD Student

    Location

    Centre for Environmental Policy

    Research

    Project Title:
    Are climate calculators effective decision support tools, facilitating the creation of climate-effective land management?

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science

  • Liam Kirkpatrick

    Personal details

    Liam Kirkpatrick PhD Student

    Location

    Centre for Environmental Policy

    Research

    Project Title:
    Investigating the cultural ecosystem services of urban blue space and their use in environmental and land-use planning for a changing world

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences
    Health

  • Theo Llewellyn

    Personal details

    Theo Llewellyn PhD Student

    Location

    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

    Research

    Project Title:
    Anthraquinone evolution in lichenised fungi

    Research Themes:
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Enrico Manfredi-Haylock

    Personal details

    Enrico Manfredi-Haylock PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Materials

    Research

    Project Title
    Lead-acid battery recycling: Transitioning to a zero-pollution process

    Themes
    Resources and Pollution

  • Waseem Marzook

    Personal details

    Waseem Marzook PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Thermal performance and low temperature degradation of Li-ion batteries.

    Themes:
    Energy and Low Carbon Futures

  • Ophelie Meuriot

    Personal details

    Ophelie Meuriot PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Characteristics, Variability and Sensitivity of Low Salinity

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Amran Mohamed

    Personal details

    Amran Mohamed PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Polymeric Additives in Lubricants for Electric Vehicle Powertrains

    Research Themes:
    Energy & Low-Carbon Futures
    Resources and Pollution

  • Manoj Murali

    Personal details

    Manoj Murali PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Biomimetic Water Based Lubrication Development: Nanoencapsulation with Liposomes 

    Themes:
    Resources and Pollution

  • Reuben Nixon Hill

    Personal details

    Reuben Nixon Hill PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Mathematics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Automated analysis for massive climate data sets

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth & Life Sciences

  • Ryan O'Shea

    Personal details

    Ryan O'Shea PhD Student

    Location

    Centre for Environmental Policy

    Research

    Project Title:
    Blue Growth: An integrated systems analysis to investigate the sustainability of offshore Seaweed Aquaculture as a feedstock for the UK Bioeconomy. 

    Research Themes:
    Energy and low carbon futures
    Resources and pollution

  • Sofia Palazzo Corner

    Personal details

    Sofia Palazzo Corner PhD Student

    Location

    Centre for Environmental Policy 

    Research

    Project Title:
    Incorporating climate catastrophe: representing Earth system extremes in reduced-complexity climate models

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science

  • Joe Peach

    Personal details

    Joe Peach PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Measuring the space and time evolution of the geometric, kinematic and dynamic properties of oceanic breaking waves

    Themes.

    tbc

  • Nick Reynard

    Personal details

    Nick Reynard PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Carbon dioxide sequestration through iron fertilization and potential for  harvest of calcium carbonate from marine organisms

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Bethany Reyniers

    Personal details

    Bethany Reyniers PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Life Sciences

    Research

    Project Title:
    tbc

    Themes.

    tbc

  • Charlotte Roe

    Personal details

    Charlotte Roe PhD Student

    Location

    Dyson School of Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    BatBath - Immersion cooling of lithium-ion batteries with dielectric fluids

    Research Themes:
    Energy and Low-Carbon Futures

  • Phoebe Ross

    Personal details

    Phoebe Ross PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    DOC-SWEET-Deep Ocean Circulation during Super Warm Early Eocene Temperatures

    Research Themes
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences 

  • William Scott

    Personal details

    William Scott PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Earth Science and Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Forward and adjoint coupled ocean-ice sheet modelling

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Marie Shaylor

    Personal details

    Marie Shaylor PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Physics

    Research

    Project Title:
    Diagnosing dust-climate interactions in observations to test Earth System Models

    Research Themes:
    Climate Science

  • William Veness

    Personal details

    William Veness PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Groundwater and conflict in the horn of Africa

    Themes:
    Resources and Pollution
    Health
    Climate Science
    Earth and Life Sciences

  • Thomas Weeks

    Personal details

    Thomas Weeks PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Life Sciences

    Research

    Project Title:
    Impacts of environmental change on the structure and function of avian communities

    Research Themes:
    Earth & Life Sciences

  • Claudia Wyer

    Personal details

    Claudia Wyer PhD Student

    Location

    Department of Life Sciences

    Research

    Project Title:
    Genomic Signatures of Sexual Selection in the Yellow Fever Mosquito

    Research Themes:
    Health

  • Liam Yasin

    Personal details

    Liam Yasin PhD Student

    Location

    Dyson School of Design Engineering

    Research

    Project Title:
    Solving fuel cell degradation issues to achieve high efficiency combined heat and power

    Research Themes:
    Energy & Low-Carbon Futures