Meet the Team

The water@leeds team comprises 150 professionals from across the different departments and faculties of the University of Leeds, ensuring a cross-section of expertise and different disciplinary backgrounds.

Name	School	Research Area
Dr Sangaralingam Ahilan	School of Civil Engineering	Hydrology, River hydraulics, Sustainable Flood Risk Management, Statistical modelling, Flood and Sediment transport modelling
Dr Susana Almeida	School of Civil Engineering	Hydrology; Ungauged catchments; Uncertainty analysis; Decision making under uncertainty; Natural hazards
Dr Richard Ansell	School of Chemistry	Biosensors, electro-organic chemistry in flow devices
Dr. Nir Arielli	School of History	Transnational war volunteers; The Arab-Israeli conflict; International relations in Europe and the Middle East, 1919-1939; Colonial troops; Colonial insurgency and counterinsurgency and Fascist Italy
Dr Eric Atwell	School of Computing	Corpus linguistics and text analytics
Dr Tracy Aze	School of Earth and Environment	Investigating evolutionary trends and past oceanic environments using the marine plankton fossil record
Dr Peyman Babakhani	School of Earth and Environment	reactive transport, colloid transport, colloid stability, aggregation modelling, numerical modelling, machine learning, environmental nanotechnology
Dr Akintunde Babatunde	School of Civil Engineering
Dr Karen Bacon	School of Geography	Plant ecology, plant biology, geology and geochemistry
Professor Andrew Baird	School of Geography	Physical processes of water, and heat and gas transfer in peat soils.
Professor Steven Banwart	School of Earth and Environment	Weathering of rock and minerals to deliver solutes to drainage waters in catchments and river basins, biogeochemistry and natural biodegradation of hydrocarbon pollution in groundwater aquifers
Dr Dani Barrington	School of Civil Engineering	Water, sanitation and health in developing and developed countries, participatory action research and international development.
Dr Paul Beales	School of Chemistry	Biophysical properties of lipid membranes and the applications of membrane-based materials
Professor David Bell	School of Geography	Urban and rural cultures
Professor Tim Benton		Population, evolutionary and conservation ecology, UK Champion for Global Food Security
Dr Christian Berretta	School of Civil Engineering	Water sensitive urban design, SuDs, Stormwater management, urban diffuse pollution, impact of drainage systems
Dr Ajay Bhave	School of Earth and Environment	Water resources; climate change adaptation; decision making under uncertainty; Green Urban Infrastructure
Dr Cathryn Birch	School of Earth and Environment	Tropical meteorology, Monsoons and the water cycle, Convection and severe weather, Land-atmosphere interaction, Convection-permitting models, Links between rainfall and flood forecasting
Dr Richard Blackburn	School of Design	Green colouration and finishing technology for all fibres, water conservation including effluent reduction.
Dr Antony Blundell	School of Geography	Upland catchment management
Professor Onno Bokhove	School of Mathematics	Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Laboratory Experiments; design and testing of laboratory configurations for validation of mathematical models, computational techniques for PDEs (discontinuous Galerkin FEM), Hamiltonian fluid dynamics, idealised models for weather prediction, and hydraulic solutions of hyperbolic systems.
Dr Adam Booth	School of Earth and Environment	Geophysicist specialising in application of seismic and GPR techniques to the quantitative analysis of the subsurface, focusing on the cryosphere
Dr Duncan Borman	School of Civil Engineering	Multiphase flows in numerous real world problems; developing computational models and applying and developing novel Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), mixing in complex fluids where a chemical or biological processes maybe occurring (e.g. bioreactors, fuel cells, combustion, high-speed jets, ventilation).
Professor Simon Bottrell	School of Earth and Environment	Application of stable isotopes as tracers in deep aquifers, groundwater/unsaturated zone and surface waters including peatlands to understand microbial processes and pollution events.
Professor Denise Bower	School of Civil Engineering	Optimisation of the procurement of contracted services.
Dr Lee Brown	School of Geography	River hydrology and ecology interface (hydroecology) including Arctic, Alpine and UK upland management.
Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin	Leeds University Business School	Decision-making
Dr Kishore Budha	School of Design	Bottled water, branding and the commons
Dr Ian Burke	School of Earth and Environment	Biogeochemical controls on redox active metal behaviour in natural and contaminated environments.
Professor Michael Cardwell	School of Law	Agriculture and the environment, including the regulation of genetically modified organisms and nitrate pollution, agriculture and climate change
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).
Dr Laura Carter	School of Geography	soil; pharmaceuticals; emerging contaminants; uptake; fate; sorption; plants; earthworms
Professor Pippa Chapman	School of Geography	Terrestrial and aquatic nutrient cycles, impacts of atmospheric deposition and land use management on nitrogen and phosphorus in soil and surface waters, impacts of storms on water quality, and hydrochemistry of upland ecosystems.
Professor Martin Clarke	School of Geography	Geographic modelling
Dr Santiago Clerici	School of Geography	Tree ring analysis; Cellulose extractions; Stable isotope analysis; Fieldwork support for research
Professor Christopher Collier	School of Earth and Environment; Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science	NCAS Head of Strategic Partnerships; Chair of Atmospheric Science
Dr Charlie Dannreuther	School of Politics and International Studies	International political economy through small business policy
Dr David Dawson	School of Civil Engineering
Professor Suraje Dessai	School of Earth and Environment	Management of climate change uncertainties, perception of climate risks and the science-policy interface in climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
Dr Lorna Dougan	School of Physics and Astronomy	Neutron diffraction to examine the structure of liquid water and aqueous solutions; single molecule force spectroscopy techniques to explore proteins from extremophile organisms; determining the importance of non-covalent interactions in inferring protein stability under extreme conditions.
Professor Andy Dougill	School of Earth and Environment	Soil degradation; Agricultural development; Participatory and environmental monitoring
Dr Frances Drake	School of Geography	Global environmental change; climate change; environmental citizenship
Dr Alison Dunn		Biosecurity to slow the spread of Invasive Non Native Species (INNS)
Professor Barbara Evans	School of Civil Engineering	Water and wastewater engineering and water supply and sanitation in developing countries.
Professor Les Firbank	School of Biology	Weed population dynamics, farming systems on biodiversity and agronomy
Dr Luuk Fleskens	School of Earth and Environment	Sustainable land management, water harvesting, integrated environmental modelling, impact assessment
Linda Forbes	School of Earth and Environment	ms, icp-ms, la-icp-ms and method validation for instrumentation
Dr Oliver Fritsch	School of Geography	EU policy implementation, British and European environmental governance, and public participation in eco-politics. EU Water Framework Directive, water politics in south-eastern Europe, and the application of meta-analyses in the social sciences.
Dr Alan Gadian	School of Earth and Environment	Mesoscale modelling of rainfall and hydrological surface modelling.
Dr Luis Garcia-Carreras	School of Earth and Environment	The representation of tropical convection and clouds in weather and climate models; impacts of land surface changes onclouds and rainfall; the effect of atmospheric model biases on simulations of climate impacts; boundary layer dynamics in desert and tropical environments; the large-scale West African monsoon and Saharan heat low
Professor Mark Gilthorpe	Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine	Statistical epidemiology
Professor Emanuel Gloor	School of Geography	To detect and understand current large-scale changes of land and ocean systems due to a changing climate and human activity.
Professor Andy Gouldson	School of Earth and Environment	Design, delivery and impacts of different forms of environmental policy, planning and regulation including environmental governance, environmental corporate responsibility, economic development and environmental justice.
Dr Alan Grainger	School of Geography	Sustainable development, monitoring tropical deforestation and land use change, desertification, role of tropical forest biodiversity and carbon stores in global environmental change.
Dr Richard Grayson	School of Geography	Impact of agriculturally derived diffuse pollution on water quality, including both nutrients and sediments, and the role of catchment management approaches for source identification and mitigation.
Dr Stephen Griffiths	School of Mathematics	Atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics; mathematical and numerical modelling; waves; ocean tides, and paleotides.
Dr Arief Gusnanto
Dr Christopher Hassall	School of Biological Sciences	Entomology; mimicry; camouflage; climate change; urbanisation; freshwaters; pollinators; invasive species; socio-ecology; pedagogy; statistics
Professor Dave Hodgson	School of Earth and Environment	The stratigraphic record of sedimentary basins, understanding the flux of sediment from continents to oceans across a range of basin margin types, (palaeo-)latitudes, and timescales
Professor Graham Huggan		Comparative postcolonial literary/cultural studies, travel writing, ecocriticism, short fiction, and film.
Dr Timothy Hunter	School of Chemical and Process Engineering	Sludge and slurry processing, sediment erosion and mobilisation
Professor Martin Iddon	School of Music	Musical representations of water
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.
Dr Lars Jeuken	School of Biomedical Sciences	Redox-active membrane proteins; biological electron transfer
Dr Michelle Johnson	School of Geography	Relationships between soil properties and tropical forest dynamics
Dr Paul Kay	School of Geography	Impacts of land-use on hydrology and water quality including effects of agriculture, flooding, upland land management and fate/effects of pollutants including nutrients, pesticides, veterniary medicines and sediment.
Dr Gareth Keevil	School of Earth and Environment	Sedimentary processes in submarine channel-levee systems.
Dr Tom Kent	School of Mathematics
Dr Amirul Khan	Civil Engineering	computational fluid dynamics; particle dispersion in turbulent flows; numerical optimization; lattice boltzmann method; GPU based computing using CUDA
Professor Mike Kirkby	School of Geography	Hillslope sediment transport processes, relationship between hillslope process and form, hillslope and network hydrology, development of peat growth/ hydrological models, landscape and regional scale models.
Dr Philip Kiszely	School of Performance and Cultural Studies	Popular culture; cultural heritage; regional studies; proto-punk, punk and post-punk culture, Hollywood and European film
Dr Megan Klaar	School of Geography	The linkages between geomorphology, hydrology and ecology.Hydroecology, linkages between geomorphology, hydrology and ecology, the use of hydroecological evidence to improve water resource management policies, the role of instream wood in the creation of hydraulic and geomorphic development and promotion of biogeochemical hotspots in improving river and ground water quality, the influence of extreme hydrological events on geomorphology and ecology
Dr Ann-Kristin Koehler	School of Earth and Environment	Carbon balance of blanket peat catchment
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	Spatial aspects of population and community ecology and conservation biology
Dr Julia Leventon	School of Earth and Environment	Climate compatible development in sub-Saharan Africa, environmental consultancy
Dr Simon Lightfoot	School of Politics and International Studies	The EU and Sustainable Development
Dr 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
Professor Adrian MacDonald	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 Vernon Manville	School of Earth and Environment	Flood and sediment dynamics
Dr David Marples	School of Biomedical Sciences	Role of aquaporins in the regulation of water balance.
Dr John Marsham	School of Earth and Environment	Atmospheric convection, tropical meteorology and Saharan dust uplift
Dr Adriana Matamoros Veloza	School of Mechanical Engineering	Environmental Geochemistry, groundwater quality, Groundwater-surface water interactions
Dr K Johan L Mattsson	School of Physics and Astronomy	Soft matter, glass, non-equilibrium, gel, battery
Professor Bill McCaffrey	School of Earth and Environment	Deep marine clastics, particulate sedimentary rocks in the deep ocean, deposition of sediment from turbidity currents.
Dr Jim McQuaid	School of Earth and Environment	Observations of atmospheric composition; instrumentation; biomass burning; tropospheric ozone; long range transport; science communication
Dr Lucie Middlemiss	School of Earth and Environment	Sustainability
Professor Paul Millner	School of Biomedical Sciences	Biosensor applications
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 (SRI)	Riverine Environmental flow, climate change and water resources
Dr Catherine Moody	School of Geography	Biogeochemistry of UK uplands, carbon cycles of peatlands
Dr Paul Morris	School of Geography	Wetland ecohydrologist, hydrological, ecological and biogeochemical processes that govern the past, present and future of the world's wetlands.
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	Application of stable isotopic techniques to problems of water provenance and process, including characterising biodegradation processes of various pollutants in groundwater.
Professor Catherine Noakes	School of Civil Engineering	Development and application of mathematical models for environmental fluid flow problems, including water distribution networks, airborne infection and industrial coating and drying processes.
Professor Kate Oakley	School of Media and Communication	Cultural industries and place: cities, regions and neighbourhoods
Dr Alice Owen	School of Earth and Environment	The diffusion and impact of domestic green technology; the role of 'place' in sustainability; achieving domestic low carbon retrofit; effective knowledge exchange
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
Dr Sheila Palmer	School of Geography	Response of soil and solution chemistry to environmental change, including acidification and carbon retention and loss from terrestrial environment (forested and upland systems).
Professor Douglas Parker	School of Earth and Environment	Dynamics of weather systems, in the tropics and midlatitudes.
Dr Caroline Peacock	School of Earth and Environment	Understanding how molecular interactions control the reactivity and cycling of constituents in the terrestrial and marine environments, focusing on the mineral-water interface and the micro-scale processes that control soil and sediment geochemistry, and the composition of natural waters.
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	Fluid and sediment dynamics of both natural and industrial systems, including deep-marine sedimentary processes (submarine channels and gravity current dynamics).
Professor Alan Pearman	Leeds University Business School	Climate change risks; environmental assessment of nuclear waste options; gas rig de-commissioning; decision modelling of treatment of unstable angina; assessment of food risks
Dr Robert Pheasant	School of Geography	Landscape character appraisal, environmental acoustics and energy use within the urban water-cycle.
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 James Porter	School of Earth and Environment	Environmental knowledge for policy
Professor Megan Povey	School of Food Science and Nutrition	Acoustic and ultrasonic monitoring of compositional changes in aqueous systems and food waste streams
Dr Duncan Quincey	School of Geography	High-mountain glaciology (in particular Andean and Himalayan glaciology) and the response of these glaciers to climatic change.
Dr 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	Reactive intermediate chemistry; exploitation of carbon dioxide as a solvent and reagent in synthetic organic chemistry; novel photochemical processes; and continuous reactions.
Dr Hugh Rice	School of Chemical and Process Engineering	Measurement of complex flows; acoustic backscatter methods; Doppler and time-domain velocimetry; in-line rheometry; speed of sound measurement; numerical methods; mathematical modelling; inverse problems
Dr Mark Robinson	Leeds University Business School	Understanding daily operations in water treatment plants
Dr Katy Roelich	School of Earth and Environment	Environmental and engineering consulting, sustainability research.
Professor Alastair Rucklidge	School of Mathematics	Pattern formation; Mode interactions; Quasipatterns; Spatio-temporal chaos; Nonlinear and chaotic dynamics; Heteroclinic networks; Dynamo theory; Magnetoconvection.
Dr Sally Russell	School of Earth and Environment	Climate change and sustainability in organisations; environmental psychology and organisational psychology research; decision-making and behaviour in response to climate change; proenvironmental behaviour in organisations; water demand management; mechanisms to encourage long-term sustainable water use
Dr Steven Sait	School of Biology	Population, community and evolutionary ecology.
Dr Paola 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.
Dr Nicolas Salazar Sutill	School of Performance and Cultural Industries	Digital performance, cultural studies, philosophy of movement, Laban studies, motion description and computation, mathematical representation of movement, digital and new materialist theory, material imagination, creativity, ecocriticism, cultural theory, critical and material thinking.
Dr Susannah Sallu	School of Earth and Environment	Social-ecological dynamics, resilience and vulnerability, Ecosystem services and rural livelihoods.
Dr Alex Schafran	School of Geography	Urban planning, policy and the future in geography.
Dr Gehan Selim	School of Civil Engineering	architecture; memory studies, postconflict urbanism; urban politics; resillient cities; sustainable materials & design
Dr Natalia Sergeeva	School of Chemistry	Colorants, natural and food colorants, antioxidants, colour physics, colour relationships, measurement of colour, metal-free (photo)catalysis, organic nanomaterials, bioenergy, (photo)degradation, photomedicine.
Professor Andrew Shepherd	School of Earth and Environment	Measuring changes of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, on understanding their interaction with the global climate system, and on establishing their contribution to global sea level rise; the calibration and validation of satellite systems; and the development of novel satellite sensors to tackle problems in geophysical research.
Dr Yim Ling Siu	School of Earth and Environment	Environmental risks and sustainability, quality audit for science, and environmental informatics and modelling for transport, energy and the environment.
Dr Andrew Sleigh	School of Civil Engineering	Computational fluid dynamics cfd; river flow; flood modelling
Dr Mark Smith	School of Geography	Hydrology, hydraulics and process geomorphology; the interaction of near-surface flows with the Earth’s surface
Dr Tess Somervell	School of English	Literature of the long eighteenth century, particularly poetry: long poems; nature poetry; literary representations of weather and climate; ecocriticism; literature and science; literature and theology; time in literature; reception, influence, and allusion; neoclassicism and adaptations of the rota virgilii.
Professor Dominick Spracklen	School of Earth and Environment	Understanding interactions between the biosphere, atmosphere and climate and the way that these interactions are being altered by human activity
Mr Neil Stanley	School of Law	Environmental law; planning, water pollution, waste management, nature conservation and EC regulations; risk, public concern and participation; disaster law; corporate error.
Dr Julia Steinberger	School of Earth and Environment	Ecological economics, quantifying the current and historical linkages between resource use (energy and materials, greenhouse gas emissions) and socioeconomic parameters (economic and human wellbeing), and identifying alternative development pathways to guide the necessary transition to a low carbon society
Professor Lindsay Stringer	School of Earth and Environment	Political ecologies of environmental change; land degradation and desertification; participatory processes; environmental governance.
Dr Graeme Swindles	School of Geography	Long term ecohydrological and carbon dynamics of peatlands, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, climate change, protozoa as environmental indicators
Dr Anne Tallontire	School of Earth and Environment	Corporate social responsibility with respect to development
Dr Kelvin Tapley	School of Chemistry	Capillary electrophoresis, spectroscopic techniques, environmental analysis and effluent treatments; detection of pigments and reactive dyes.
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 Jonathan Tobutt	Music	Oboe soundworld, water, landscapes, performance practice, twentieth century British music renaissance,
Dr Christopher Trayner	School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering	Water research
Dr Mark Trigg	School of Civil Engineering	River systems from a global to an infrastructure scale. Core topic areas are river hydrodynamics and the connectivity of rivers and floodplains, with strong links to geomorphology, hydrology and environmental engineering. Particularly motivated by traditionally data-scarce contexts where new low cost field methods, numerical modelling, remote sensing, and local knowledge can provide new insights and applications.
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	Construction project management.
Dr James Van Alstine	School of Earth and Environment	Human-environment interactions at multiple scales, research focuses on natural resource governance and politics, corporate social responsibility and climate change governance.
Dr Kim Vercruysse	School of Civil Engineering	urban flood resilience, river and sediment dynamics, and catchment management.
Dr Paul Waley	School of Geography	River restoration and management in Japan.
Professor Xue Wang	School of Chemical and Process Engineering	Toxicity prediction using QSARs (quantitative structure activity relationships) and toxicity risk minimization; statistical control of wastewater treatment plants.
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
Dr Jared West	School of Earth and Environment	Development and application of physical and geophysical approaches to the characterization of groundwater processes
Dr Simon Wilkins		Nanotechnology and Materials - several areas of interest, including: nanosafety, nanomedicine, pharmaceuticals, polymers, construction materials and photocatalysis
Dr Kerri Woods	School of Politics and International Studies	Human rights and environmental sustainability
Dr Clare Woulds	School of Geography	Biogeochemical processes in marine sediments
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
Ms Sarah Elizabeth Yoho	School of English	Resilience; Tourism; Agriculture; Environmental Humanities; Ethnography
Dr Dylan Young	School of Geography
Dr Martin Zebracki	School of Geography
Dr Guy Ziv	School of Geography	Ecosystem services, combining ecosystem modelling and social sciences to analyse impacts of policy and climate change on the water-food-energy systems and the environment