Meet the Team
The water@leeds team comprises over 200 professionals from across the different departments and faculties of the University of Leeds, ensuring a cross-section of expertise and different disciplinary backgrounds.
Research Team
| Name | School | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Salma Alarefi | School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering | Renewable energy; Solar power; Hydroelectric power; Energy management & control for renewables; Sustainable engineering development |
| Dr Richard Ansell | School of Chemistry | chemical sensors; molecular recognition; nanostructured materials; molecularly imprinted polymers; templated materials; modified electrodes and photoelectrodes; electroorganic synthesis |
| Dr Nir Arielli | School of History | Areas of expertise: the Arab-Israeli conflict; the human history of the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea; International relations in Europe and the Middle East, 1919-1948; transnational participation in conflicts in the modern era. |
| David Ashley | School of Geography | Chemical analysis, Experimental design support, Fieldwork support for research, Methods development, COSHH compliance |
| Professor Eric Atwell | School of Computing | Artificial intelligence ; language ; computing ; linguistics ; machine learning ; data mining ; natural language processing ; text analytics : English Arabic Quran Religious health, medical, autism |
| Dr Peyman Babakhani | School of Earth and Environment | reactive Transport, colloid transport, colloid stability, colloid aggregation, numerical modelling, machine learning, environmental nanotechnology |
| Dr Akintunde Babatunde | School of Civil Engineering | water and wastewater treatment, constructed wetlands |
| Professor Andy Baird | School of Geography | Wetland science; peatlands; ecohydrology; carbon cycle of peatlands; computer modelling of peatland hydrology and peatland development |
| Dr Jess Baker | School of Earth and Environment | climate; tropical forest; land-atmosphere interactions; water cycles |
| Professor Natasha Barlow | School of Earth and Environment | sea-level change; climate change; coasts; offshore environments; environmental responses to flooding |
| Finn Barlow-Duncan | School of Geography | Brokers relationships between scientists, undertaking catchment management research, develops co-designed projects. |
| Dr Paul Beales | School of Chemistry | biomolecular self-assembly; membrane biophysics; bionanotechnology; soft matter and biological physics; bottom-up synthetic biology; nanomedicine; nanotoxicology; vesicle technologies; hydrogels |
| Dr Maria Beger | School of Biology | Maria is a quantitative marine ecologist and conservation scientist integrating field data, spatial models and decision science to find conservation solutions that link theory and practice. |
| Professor David Bell | School of Geography | cultural policy; urban and rural cultures; consumption (especially food and drink); hospitality; media geographies; sexuality and space; cultural studies. |
| Professor Tim Benton | School of Biology | food systems; sustainability; climate change; ecology; evolution; agriculture; policy; biodiverisity; population dynamics |
| Dr Mohsen Besharat | School of Civil Engineering | Two-phase pressurised flows; application of different numerical models (Elastic, Rigid, CFD, etc) in simulations of adverse transient effects; protective devices such as air valves and air vessels for hydraulic pressurised systems; improving the sustainability of infrastructures through improving the energy efficiency or offering new energy storage solutions |
| Dr Ajay Bhave | School of Earth and Environment, Sustainability Research Institute | climate change adaptation, decision making under uncertainty, water security in the Global South |
| Professor Cathryn Birch | School of Earth and Environment | weather and climate extremes; tropical meteorology; convection-permitting models; climate impacts (flooding, health, agriculture); weather and flood forecasting; early warning systems |
| Dr Pam Birtill | School of Psychology | Learning; Reward; Food preferences; Fussy eating |
| Professor Richard Blackburn | School of Design | Sustainability; textile chemistry; textile coloration; textile finishing; chemistry; dyes; dyeing; polymers; cosmetics; green chemistry; food colorants; hair dyes; natural products; cellulose |
| Dr Antony Blundell | School of Geography | Upland catchment management |
| Dr Steven Boeing | School of Earth and Environment | Atmospheric convection |
| Dr Stephanie Bond | School of Geography | GIS and hydrological modelling |
| Dr Adam Booth | School of Earth and Environment | near-surface geophysics; reflection seismology; ground-penetrating radar; glaciology; archaeology; data processing; field geophysics |
| Dr Duncan Borman | School of Civil Engineering | computational fluid dynamics; environmental flows; multiphase flow, mathematical modelling; hydraulic modelling; wastewater modelling; bioreactor modelling |
| Professor Simon Bottrell | School of Earth and Environment | Use of stable isotope and geochemical tracers in geology, hydrogeology and ecosystems; particular strength in contaminant behaviour, fate and biodegradation in terrestrial and groundwater environments |
| Professor Denise Bower | School of Civil Engineering | Strategic infrastructure advisory; project and programme management; capital programme planning reviews; procurement strategies; institutional capability development |
| Professor Lee Brown | School of Geography | aquatic ecology; river ecosystems; biodiversity; food webs; ecosystem processes; alpine; arctic; peatlands; environmental-flows |
| Dr Andy Brown | School of Chemical and Process Engineering | Nanoparticles and analytical electron microscopy |
| Helena Brown | School of Earth and Environment | Undertaking field based sampling and laboratory analysis of sediment and water column samples and advising lab users on equipment use, laboratory techniques and sample analysis. |
| Dr Ian Burke | School of Earth and Environment | environmental geochemistry; radionuclide behavior; contaminated land; metal contaminants; alkaline wastes; EXAFS; SEM/TEM; geomicrobiology |
| Dr Miller Alonso Camargo-Valero | School of Civil Engineering | wastewater treatment systems; sewage and faecal sludge management; microalgal technology; recovery of resources from organic waste; and associated environmental impacts |
| Professor Michael Cardwell | School of Law | Agricultural law, including European Union and world trade aspects. |
| Professor Chris Carr | School of Design | Textile science and technology, textile chemistry, colouration, finishing, historical textiles and conservation science, surface chemistry, recycling, new fibres and healthcare textiles. |
| Dr Rachael Carrie | School of Earth and Environment | relationships between aquatic systems and society; links between rural livelihoods and natural resource use; environmental monitoring and assessment. |
| Dr Jonathan Carrivick | School of Geography | Geomorphology, specifically cold climate earth surface processes and landforms and high-magnitude fluvial processes (glacial outburst floods and bedrock channels). |
| Professor Laura Carter | School of Geography | soil; pharmaceuticals; emerging contaminants; uptake; fate; sorption; plants; earthworms |
| Professor Andy Challinor | School of Earth and Environment | climate impacts; climate change; food security; food production |
| Professor Pippa Chapman | School of Geography | land and water management; ecosystem services; soil science; sustainable agriculture; water quality; peatlands; carbon cycle; nitrogen and phosphorus cycling; dissolved organic carbon; climate change |
| Professor Martin Clarke | School of Geography | Geographic modelling |
| Dr Henry Clarke | School of Languages, Cultures and Societies | Roman history and archaeology; local identity; cultural change; the relationship between human society and the natural environment in antiquity, with a specific focus on the Durius River Valley in the Iberian Peninsula |
| Dr Santiago Clerici | School of Geography | Tree ring analysis; Cellulose extractions; Stable isotope analysis; Fieldwork support for research |
| Dr Josh Cohen | School of Performance and Cultural Industries | Water; climate change; South Africa; landscape; medicinal plants; ways of knowing. |
| Emeritus Professor Chris Collier | School of Earth and Environment | NCAS Head of Strategic Partnerships; Chair of Atmospheric Science |
| Emma Cowan | School of Geography | community engagement, climate change, sustainability, nature based solutions and fresh water contamination |
| Dr. Roger Cremades Rodeja | School of Earth and Environment | cities, droughts, water-energy-land-food-biodiversity nexus, irrigation, agent-based modelling, system dynamics, complex systems. |
| Dr Charlie Dannreuther | School of Politics and International Studies | EU politics and policy; UK and EU politics; BREXIT; SME policy; international political economy; Regulation Theory; phenomenology; value theory; financial crisis; infrastructure |
| Dr David Dawson | School of Civil Engineering | resilience; infrastructure; transport; climate change; adaptation; economics and value; interdisciplinary approaches; system thinking |
| Dr Leif Denby | School of Earth and Environment | atmospheric physics; high-performance computing; computational fluid dynamics; convective clouds; python |
| Professor Suraje Dessai | School of Earth and Environment | climate change; future climate; uncertainty management; decision-making under uncertainty; climate risk management; science policy interface; climate services; climate impacts; climate adaptation |
| Dr Leonard Döhl | School of Geography | Sustainable agriculture; Regenerative agriculture; Soil science; Sustainable food production systems; Agroecosystem services; Climate change; Data science and modelling; Health and lifestyle coaching; Brain health and brain performance training; High power laser physics; High energy radiation physics; Plasma science. |
| Professor Lorna Dougan | School of Physics and Astronomy | Structure of liquid water in ambient and non-ambient conditions using neutron diffraction. Hydrogen bonding in cryoprotectant systems. |
| Dr David Dufton | School of Earth and Environment | processing of weather radar data for quantitative precipitation estimation. Recent collaboration with UKCEH to use these estimates as inputs to distributed hydrological models. |
| Professor Alison Dunn | School of Biology | Invasive Alien Species; Invasive Non Native Species; Wildlife Diseases; Host-Parasite Interactions; Trait Mediated Indirect Effects; Sexual Selection; Slowing the Spread; Biosecurity |
| Professor Barbara Evans | School of Civil Engineering | Water and wastewater engineering and water supply and sanitation in developing countries. |
| Mrs Linda Forbes | School of Earth and Environment | ms, icp-ms, la-icp-ms and method validation for instrumentation |
| Professor Piers Forster | School of Earth and Environment | climate change; climate modelling; climate mitigation; climate risks; climate adaptation; atmospheric physics; radiative forcing; aviation and climate; climate policy, carbon budgets |
| Dr Markus Fraundorfer | School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) | Global Governance; Global Health; Neglected Diseases; River Governance; Global Challenges; Cosmopolitanism; Brazil; Brazilian Foreign Policy; Latin American Regionalism |
| Professor Joanne Garde-Hansen | School of Media and Communication | sustainable flood memories, waterproofing data, drought risk and you |
| Rachel Gasior | School of Geography | Delivery of the School Laboratories strategy, Management and development of Laboratory team, Chemical analysis Equipment sourcing & purchase |
| Dr Jiaqi Ge | School of Geography | Agent-based models (ABM) to investigate stakeholder behaviour and interaction in flood risk management. |
| Professor Mark Gilthorpe | Leeds Institute for Data Analytics & School of Medicine | Statistical epidemiology |
| Professor Emanuel Gloor | School of Geography | Global carbon cycle, Amazonian climate and tropical forests, tropical forest ecophysiology |
| Dr Geoff Goodwin | School of Politics and International Studies | water (de) commodification; water infrastructure; communal water management; water-human relations; water history; drinking water fountains |
| Professor Andy Gouldson | School of Earth and Environment | environmental policy; environmental governance; climate change; climate policy; low carbon development; climate resilient development; cities; climate finance; economic development. |
| Dr Anne Grainger | School of Geography | monitoring and modelling global environmental change; tropical deforestation; desertification; global climate change; science-policy communication; global environmental change policy. |
| Dr Richard Grayson | School of Geography | hydrology; water quality; catchment management; geomorphology; soil; uplands; peatlands; field instrumentation |
| Dr Lauren Gregoire | School of Earth and Environment | Ice sheet modelling; climate modelling; climate-ice sheet interactions; rapid sea level rise; abrupt climate change; Quaternary; Uncertainty Quantification |
| Dr Stephen Griffiths | School of Mathematics | applied mathematics; fluid dynamics; atmospheric and oceanic flows; magnetohydrodynamics; instability theory; linear and nonlinear waves; ocean tides; numerical modelling. |
| Dr Arief Gusnanto | School of Mathematics | development of statistical methods and inference in the field of statistical bioinformatics, biology, medicine, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, chemometrics, and high-dimensional data. |
| Dr Christopher Hassall | School of Biology | Entomology; mimicry; camouflage; climate change; urbanisation; freshwaters; pollinators; invasive species; socio-ecology; pedagogy; statistics |
| Dr Ana Heitor | School of Civil Engineering | effect of climate change in geostrutures, geotechnical Engineering, behaviour of waste materials in transport infrastructure, stabilisation using vegetation |
| Dr. Paola Hernandez Montes de Oca de Sakai | School of Earth and Environment | Climate change adaptation and mitigation, socio-economic resilience and resilience to climate change and the link with current vulnerability, SMEs and communities, flooding and risk management strategies, the water sector, low-carbon future options for cities, and sustainable development. |
| Professor David Hodgson | School of Earth and Environment | sedimentology; stratigraphy; diagenesis; geomorphology |
| Professor Joseph Holden | School of Geography | peatlands; hydrology; water; catchment management; soil; agriculture; climate change; hillslope; water quality; carbon cycling; floods; rivers; drainage; wetlands; upland; moorland; physical geography |
| Dr Will Homoky | School of Earth and Environment | ocean biogeochemistry; carbon and metal cycles; sediment and porewater diagenesis; micronutrient trace elements and isotopes; benthic fluxes; hydrothermal vents; radio-isotope tracers; ICP-MS |
| Professor Graham Huggan | School of English | Comparative postcolonial literary/cultural studies, travel writing, ecocriticism, short fiction, and film. |
| Sarah Hunt | School of Geography | Support for teaching, fieldwork and equipment. Research support for laboratory and field. PA/Electrical testing |
| Dr Timothy Hunter | School of Chemical and Process Engineering | Ultrasonics; particle stabilised foams and emulsions; surfactant & polymer sol. structure and adsorption; suspension rheology & settling; flocculation & stability control; ion-exchange for effluents. |
| Dr Paul Hutchings | School of Civil Engineering | Water; Sanitation; Public Health; Global Development; Interdisciplinary Research. |
| Professor Martin Iddon | School of Music | aesthetics; composition; new music after 1945 |
| Dr Brian Irvine | School of Geography | Land degradation and management, overland flow, sediment transport and turbulent flow processes, soil erosion, water resource management due to anthropogenic and climatic processes, flood frequency analysis. |
| Professor Paul Kay | School of Geography | Water quality; hydrology |
| Dr Gareth Keevil | School of Earth and Environment | experimental fluid dynamics; experimental sedimentology; application of particle imaging velocimetry; imaging of fluid dynamics; applications of lasers in fluid dynamics |
| Dr Tom Kent | School of Mathematics | geophysical and computational fluid dynamics; numerical methods for hyperbolic problems; hydraulic / shallow water-type modelling; data assimilation; numerical weather prediction |
| Dr Amirul Khan | School of Civil Engineering | Computational fluid dynamics; Particle dispersion in turbulent flows; Numerical optimization; Lattice Boltzmann method; GPU based computing using CUDA; |
| Dr Rebecca King | School of Medicine | Community Engagement; Antimicrobial Resistance; Applied Qualitative Health Research |
| Professor Mike Kirkby | School of Geography | geomorphology; hydrology; modelling |
| Dr Philip Kiszely | School of Performance and Cultural Industries | Late 20th century cultural histories; film and television history; popular culture; popular music; performance and style. |
| Dr Megan Klaar | School of Geography | natural flood management; hydroecology; extreme hydrological events; water resource management; ecology-hydrology-geomorphology linkages |
| Dr Ann-Kristin Koehler | School of Earth and Environment | Crop modelling; impact of climate on crops |
| Professor Michael Krom | School of Earth and Environment | Phosphorus cycling in aquatic systems including freshwater and marine sediments, paloeclimatic studies, effect of cloud processing on the bioavailability of iron, water quality processes in mariculture. |
| Professor Bill Kunin | School of Biology | Population and community ecology; Plant-pollinator interactions; Spatial ecology; Conservation biology |
| Professor Kang Li | School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering | nonlinear system modelling, identification, and control, and bio-inspired computational intelligence, advanced control technologies for decarbonizing the whole energy systems. |
| Professor Simon Lightfoot | School of Politics and International Studies | The EU and Sustainable Development |
| Dr Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez | Geography | Head of water@leeds. Interests include natural resources management, research network facilitation, climate change, tropical forests, ecoinformatics, research data management and data-driven decision making. |
| Professor Fleur Loveridge | School of Civil Engineering | Civil engineering, engineering geology, geotechnical engineering |
| Professor Jon Lovett | School of Geography | Institutional economics of natural resource management, practical aspects of implementation of global agreements |
| Dr Maryna Lukach | School of Earth and Environment | remote sensing; weather radar; statistics; time series analysis; modelling; scientific computing; numerical analysis; approximation; interpolation; optimisation; clustering; relational databases, classification of weather radar data |
| Dr Taylor Maavara | School of Geography | river biogeochemistry, watershed modelling, global biogeochemical cycles, greenhouse gases, river damming, mountain watersheds |
| Dr Ishfaq Hussain Malik | School of Geography | Climate change, vulnerability and adaptation; flooding in the Himalayas; Arctic change; political ecology; ethnography |
| Addi Manolopoulou | Leeds University Business School | Sustainable design; water-based endurance sports; cross-disciplinary research with field experts and external partners; public engagement; equality; environmental impact; invasive-species. |
| Dr Vernon Manville | School of Earth and Environment | morpho-sedimentary responses to explosive volcanism; catastrophic flooding; lahars and debris avalanches; natural hazards; clastic sedimentology; field geology |
| Dr David Marples | School of Biomedical Sciences | Renal physiology; aquaporins; water balance disorders. |
| Professor John Marsham | School of Earth and Environment | Tropical meteorology; atmospheric convection; weather; climate change; monsoons; Africa; India; sahara; dust; land-atmosphere interaction |
| Professor Julia Martin-Ortega | School of Earth and Environment; Sustainability Research Institute | Environmental valuation; qualitative and participatory approaches; focus on water research, particularly the relationships between society and water systems |
| Dr Adriana Matamoros Veloza | School of Mechanical Engineering | nanotechnology; inorganic interfaces; experimental reactions at molecular scale |
| Dr Johan Mattsson | School of Physics and Astronomy | Soft matter, glass, non-equilibrium, gel, battery |
| Emeritus Professor Bill McCaffrey | School of Earth and Environment | Deep marine clastics, particulate sedimentary rocks in the deep ocean, deposition of sediment from turbidity currents. |
| Emeritus Professor Adrian McDonald | School of Geography | Environmental management, particularly resource assessment, natural hazards, microbial dynamics, water colour processes and control, catchment planning and risk, decision support systems, and water demand assessment. |
| Dr Jim McQuaid | School of Earth and Environment | Atmospheric science; composition of gas phase molecules; composition of aerosol species; ice nucleating particles; tropospheric ozone; low cost sensors; air quality, air pollution |
| Professor Anna Mdee | School of Politics and International Studies | Water; livelihoods; local governance; aid; Tanzania; sustainable agriculture |
| Professor Lucie Middlemiss | School of Earth and Environment | Sustainable consumption, vulnerability and poverty, and community action on sustainability issues in the global North |
| Professor Paul Millner | School of Biomedical Sciences | electrochemical biosensors: nanobiosensors; conjugation of biomolecules; targeted nanoparticles for imaging and drug delivery; PDI for water sterilisation. |
| Dr Gordon Mitchell | School of Geography | Environmental planning, environmental assessment and natural resource management applied to SUDS pollution screening, urban development, water demand forecasting, urban air quality, and social risk. |
| Dr Neha Mittal | School of Earth and Environment | climate information co-production and communication, climate adaptation, riverine flow requirements |
| Dr Krisen Moodley | School of Civil Engineering | project management; infrastructure asset management; whole life management; ethics; corporate responsibility; resilience; procurement |
| Dr Catherine Moody | School of Geography | peatlands; carbon cycling; water chemistry; environmental biogeochemistry; hydrology |
| Dr Oliver Moore | School of Earth and Environment | mineral water interactions; |
| Dr Paul Morris | School of Geography | peatlands; ecohydrology; biogeography; environmental change |
| Dr Irene Mussio | Department of Economics | Leeds University Business School, Department of Economics |
| Dr Ryan Neely | School of Earth and Environment | clouds and aerosol processes in the past, present and future climates |
| Professor Andrew Nelson | School of Chemistry | Organised phospholipid layers; surface induced phase transitions; nanoparticle/membrane interaction; toxicity sensing. |
| Dr Rob Newton | School of Earth and Environment | sedimentary geochemistry; stable isotopes; sulfur isotopes; mass extinctions; biogeochemical cycles; environmental chemistry; seawater chemistry through time; epeiric seas |
| Professor Catherine Noakes | School of Civil Engineering | CFD; Indoor air quality; airborne infection; ventilation; building performance; fluid dynamics; building physics; building services |
| Professor Alice Owen | School of Earth and Environment | socio-technical issues of building energy use; middle actors in energy systems; micro-enterprises and sustainability; textile craft and sustainability; UK sub-national governance and policy |
| Professor Jouni Paavola | School of Earth and Environment | Governance of water resources; Nature-based solutions for flood risk management; watershed services and the governance of their provision; The roles of institutions and social justice in the governance of water resources; institutional analysis; water history |
| Professor Douglas Parker | School of Earth and Environment | meteorology; dynamics of weather systems; convective storms; African weather and climate; tropical meteorology and forecasting; fronts and cyclones; monsoons; atmospheric fluid dynamics. |
| Professor Caroline Peacock | School of Earth and Environment | biogeochemistry; geochemistry; environmental science; mineralogy; synchrotron spectroscopy and microscopy |
| Dr Julie Peacock | School of Geography | Plant / Environment interactions; Plant life history strategies; Ecological value of the gardens of historic homes; Fieldwork pedagogy |
| Professor Jeff Peakall | School of Earth and Environment | Sedimentology; fluid dynamics; particulate-laden flows; physical experiments; submarine channels; injectites; acoustic measurement of sediments |
| Emeritus Professor Alan Pearman | Leeds University Business School | Multi-criteria decision making, risk analysis, policy and project evaluation, stakeholder engagement |
| Dr Jayesh Phadtare | School of Earth and Environment | Orographic Precipitation; Mesoscale Convective Systems; Tropical Convection. |
| Dr Colin Pitts | School of Earth and Environment | Water pollution control, acidification of fresh waters, biology of cyprinid fishes, ecology of lowland rivers, assessing the benefits of improving water quality, catchment management and water demand management. |
| Dr Emily Potter | School of Geography | hydrological inputs, in particular using climate models and statistical methods to determine patterns and trends in precipitation and temperature |
| Professor Megan Povey | School of Food Science and Nutrition | Acoustic and ultrasonic monitoring of compositional changes in aqueous systems and food waste streams |
| Professor Duncan Quincey | School of Geography | mountain glaciers; remote sensing; geomorphology; Himalaya |
| Professor Claire Quinn | School of Earth and Environment | Links between ecological and socio-economic processes in the management and conservation of natural resources. |
| Professor Rob Raiswell | School of Earth and Environment | Properties and transport of particulate and colloidal iron phases in rivers and sediments; iron and sulphur cycles. |
| Professor Chris Rayner | School of Chemistry | capture and reactions of carbon dioxide; carbon capture and storage (CCS); biogas upgrading; environmentally friendly coloration technology; natural product extraction and utilisation |
| Dr Hugh Rice | School of Geography | Software and model development; mathematical modelling; acoustic backscatter and Doppler velocimetry; in-line rheometry; numerical methods; inverse problems; order lattice theory |
| Dr Mark Robinson | Leeds University Business School | Understanding daily operations in water treatment plants |
| Dr Thomas Robshaw | Chemical and Process Engineering | Adsorption; Ion-exchange; Porous materials; Functionalised polymers; hydrometallurgy; Waste valorisation; Resource recovery; Water treatment; Wastewater treatment; Active waste; Heavy metals; Critical minerals |
| Dr Katy Roelich | School of Earth and Environment; School of Civil Engineering | decision making under uncertainty, public engagement in infrastructure decision making, just transitions |
| Professor Alastair Rucklidge | School of Mathematics | Pattern formation; Mode interactions; Quasipatterns; Spatio-temporal chaos; Nonlinear and chaotic dynamics; Heteroclinic networks; Soft matter quasicrystals |
| Professor Sally Russell | School of Earth and Environment | sustainability and business; behaviour change; organisational behaviour; organisational psychology; environmental psychology; organisational change. |
| Dr Tristano Sainati | School of Civil Engineering | cost estimation for infrastructure, lifecycle assessment sanitation systems, project financing |
| Dr Steven Sait | School of Biology | Population and community ecology and evolution; species responses to environmental change; sustainable agriculture; ecosystem services; biological control; trophic interactions |
| Dr Susannah Sallu | School of Earth and Environment | rural livelihoods, vulnerability and resilience climate change and development; Africa region Tanzania |
| Dr Juliane Schwendike | School of Earth and Environment | Tropical meteorology, tropical cyclones, convection and high impact weather, monsoons, large-scale circulations |
| Professor Jan Selby | School of Politics and International Studies | climate politics; water politics; political ecology; International Relations theory; conflict, peacebuilding and development; Middle East politics |
| Professor Gehan Selim | School of Civil Engineering | architecture; memory studies, postconflict urbanism; urban politics; resillient cities; sustainable materials & design |
| Dr Natalia Sergeeva | School of Chemistry | fluorescent dyes; antioxidants; organic nanomaterials; organic-inorganic interfaces, heterogeneous catalysts, chemical reactions on surface, (photo)catalysis; photomedicine |
| Dr Shervin Shahvi | School of Earth and Environment | water quality issues from social science perspective; quantitative and qualitative analysis; preparing interview scripts and questionnaires for stakeholders |
| Nick Sheppard | research data management | |
| Dr Amrie Singh | School of Civil Engineering | Hydrology, ,hydrodynamic modelling, urban, fluvial and coastal flood risk, flood hazard, nature based solutions |
| Dr Yim Ling Siu | School of Earth and Environment | environmental risk assessment; environmental informatics & modelling; environmental impact assessment; environmental risk management; risk perceptions; online/web-based module development & testing |
| Dr Tom Slater | School of Earth and Environment | Earth observation; ice sheets; altimetry; sea level rise |
| Professor Andrew Sleigh | School of Civil Engineering | computational fluid dynamics cfd; river flow; flood modelling; environmental risk analysis; |
| Professor Mark Smith | School of Geography | geomorphology; high resolution surveys; malaria; fluvial systems; roughness |
| Dr Josie South | School of Biology | fish ecology, trophic interactions, invasion ecology, multiple stressors, impact prediction, crayfish ecology, inland fisheries, risk assessment, conflict species |
| Professor Dominick Spracklen | School of Earth and Environment | trees and flooding, natural flood management, air pollution; climate; aerosol; land-atmosphere interaction; forest fire; deforestation; land-use change; conservation |
| Dr Rachael Spraggs | Earth and Environment | Asphaltenes, emulsions and wax Basins and structural geology Corrosion, Erosion and Scale Geophysics Governance Nanotechnology Petrophysics and Geomechanics Sedimentology |
| Professor James Stark | Philosophy, Religion and History of Science | History of modern medicine; interdisciplinary medical humanities; history of biology and biomedical science; history of age and ageing. |
| Dr Alexander Stead | Institute for Transport Studies | Utility regulation; water and sewage industry costs, productivity, and efficiency; regulatory benchmarking of water companies. |
| Dr Natalie Suckall | School of Earth and Environment | climate and development; climate and weather information; sustainable livelihoods; stakeholder engagement; participatory research |
| Dr Mark Sumner | School of Design | Fashion, sustainability, retail management, fashion technology |
| Professor Anne Tallontire | School of Earth and Environment | corporate social responsibility with respect to development, particularly on ethical and fair trade and the use of private standards. |
| Dr Muhammad Tausif | School of Design | Yarn manufacturing; fibre spinning; structure-property modelling of fibrous assemblies (incl. nonwovens); sustainable and eco-friendly textile structures; textile reinforced composites |
| Dr Mark Taylor | School of Design | Clothing comfort; protective clothing; fashion technology; sustainability; climbing helmets; testing |
| Dr Liam Taylor | School of Geography | Mountain glaciers; Remote sensing; Hazards; Low-cost sensors; Water resources in mountainous regions |
| Professor Martin Tillotson | School of Civil Engineering | water management; virtual water; water & wastewater treatment; water & wastewater sludge processing; resource recovery; water industry regulation; water industry innovation |
| Dr Jonathan Tobutt | School of Music | oboe soundworld, water, landscapes, performance practice, twentieth century British music renaissance, |
| Professor Mark Trigg | School of Civil Engineering | water related risk; hydrodynamics; hydrology; rivers; floodplains; global; flood hazard; modelling; remote sensing |
| Andy Turner | School of Geography | Fluvio-glacial data, geomorphometrics, geomorphology and landscape processes, climate change, seal levels and water quality |
| Dr Apollo Tutesigensi | School of Civil Engineering | research methods for business and management research; quantitative data analysis; infrastructure project appraisal; engineering pedagogy; project management tools and techniques. |
| Dr Devakunjari Vadibeler | School of Geography | Analytical and environmental chemistry; Wastewater treatment systems; Isotope hydrology; Stable isotope tracer techniques for soil analysis |
| Dr James Van Alstine | School of Earth and Environment | climate change policy; climate compatible development; environmental policy; political ecology; energy policy and politics; resource extraction; social justice; marine environmental governance |
| Professor Xue Wang | School of Chemical and Process Engineering | pharmaceutical engineering and process control; nanoprocessing; process modelling; process optimisation; data mining; artificial intelligence; nanotoxicology; crystallisation; nanomilling; granulation |
| Professor Janet Watson | School of Languages, Cultures and Societies | Documentation of the Modern South Arabian languages of Oman and Yemen and their cultural and historical traditions |
| Professor Jared West | School of Earth and Environment | hydrogeology; engineering geology; geotechnics; applied geophysics; rock engineering |
| Dr Simon Wilkins | School of Engineering | Nanotechnology and Materials - several areas of interest, including: nanosafety, nanomedicine, pharmaceuticals, polymers, construction materials and photocatalysis |
| Dr Tom Willis | School of Geography | flood risk modelling; hydraulics; hydrology; uncertainty analysis |
| Professor Chee Yew Wong | Leeds University Business School | Supply chain integration; Supply chain collaboration; Information sharing; Digital supply chain; Supply chain analytics; Green supply chain |
| Dr Kerri Woods | School of Politics and International Studies | Human rights and environmental sustainability |
| Professor Clare Woulds | School of Geography | biogeochemistry; marine sediments; ecosystem function; isotope tracer experiments; organic geochemistry |
| Emeritus Professor Bruce Yardley | School of Earth and Environment | Fluid processes in the Earth's crust, chemical mass transfer by fluids and in the cycle of interactions between fluid flow, temperature, mineralogical reactions and the rheology and permeability of the crust |
| Dr Dylan Young | School of Geography | peatlands; ecosystem modelling; stakeholder workshops |
| Dr Martin Zebracki | School of Geography | cultural geography; public-art practice; sexuality; queer theory; citizenship; digital culture; social inclusivity |
| Dr Yongwang Zhang | School of Geography | soil hydrology; soil carbon; soil nutrients; plant interactions. |
| Professor Guy Ziv | School of Geography | ecosystem services; public goods; remote sensing; modelling; geographical information systems; GIS; climate change; land use; land cover; common agricultural policy; CAP; farming; agriculture |