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 | Areas of expertise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Sangaralingam Ahilan | School of Civil Engineering | flood frequency analysis, floodplain hydraulics, sediment dynamics in green infrastructure, rainwater harvesting, urban water supply, urban metabolism modelling |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 Tracy Aze | School of Earth and Environment | micropalaeontology, oceanography, palaeobiology, palaeoclimatology, palaeoceanography |
| 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 | ||
| Dr Karen Bacon | School of Geography | plant ecology; plant palaeoecology; palaeo-proxies; climate change; taphonomy; mass extinctions; plant-atmosphere interactions; invasive species |
| Professor Andy Baird | School of Geography | Wetland science; peatlands; ecohydrology; carbon cycle of peatlands; computer modelling of peatland hydrology and peatland development |
| 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 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 Christian Berretta | School of Civil Engineering | water sensitive urban design; sustainable drainage systems (SuDS); pluvial flood; point source (CSOs) and diffuse pollution; green infrastructures; sustainable water management in developing countries | |
| Dr Ajay Bhave | School of Earth and Environment | water resources management; climate change adaptation; decision making under uncertainty |
| 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 Pam Birtill | School of Psychology | Learning; Reward; Food preferences; Fussy eating |
| Dr 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 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 |
| Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin | Leeds University Business School | Decision-making |
| 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). |
| Dr Laura Carter | School of Geography | soil; pharmaceuticals; emerging contaminants; uptake; fate; sorption; plants; earthworms |
| Dr Sally Cawood | School of Civil Engineering | water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); urban sanitation; low-income settlements (slums) in global south; collective action; community-based organisations (CBOs); bangladesh. | |
| 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 Santiago Clerici | School of Geography | Tree ring analysis; Cellulose extractions; Stable isotope analysis; Fieldwork support for research |
| Professor Chris Collier | School of Earth and Environment | NCAS Head of Strategic Partnerships; Chair of Atmospheric Science |
| 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 | |
| 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 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. |
| Professor Andy Dougill | School of Earth and Environment | environment and development; soil science; African agriculture; climate change adaptation; climate services |
| Dr 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. |
| Professor Les Firbank | School of Biology | Agro-ecology; sustainable agriculture; urban food systems | |
| Dr Alan Gadian | School of Earth and Environment | Meteorology; microphysics of clouds; numerical atmospheric modelling; dynamics and processes in the atmosphere; novel numerical methods applied to atmospheric models. | |
| Alice Garvey | School of Earth and Environment | Climate change mitigation through energy demand solutions; social dynamics of low carbon transitions; environmental policy and the governance of sustainability issues | |
| 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 |
| 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 Alan 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 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. 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 |
| Professor Graham Huggan | School of English | Comparative postcolonial literary/cultural studies, travel writing, ecocriticism, short fiction, and film. |
| 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. | |
| 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 Lars Jeuken | School of Biomedical Sciences | Biosensors. Exoelectrogen and mechanisms of extracellular electron transfer (mineral reduction and bioremediation) by microbes. |
| Dr Michelle Johnson | School of Geography | Relationships between soil properties and tropical forest dynamics |
| Dr 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; |
| 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 | Research interests include nonlinear system modelling, identification, and control, and bio-inspired computational intelligence, with substantial applications to the development of advanced control technologies for decarbonizing the whole energy systems, from integration of renewable energies, smart- and micro-grids, district energy management, to electric vehicles, and energy reduction in manufacturing. | |
| Dr Simon Lightfoot | School of Politics and International Studies | The EU and Sustainable Development |
| Dr Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez | Geography | |
| 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 |
| 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. | |
| Dr 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 | |
| Dr K Johan L Mattsson | School of Physics and Astronomy | Hydrogen bonding |
| Professor Bill McCaffrey | School of Earth and Environment | Deep marine clastics, particulate sedimentary rocks in the deep ocean, deposition of sediment from turbidity currents. |
| 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 |
| Dr 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 Paul Morris | School of Geography | peatlands; ecohydrology; biogeography; environmental change |
| 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 | |
| Dr Alice Owen | School of Earth and Environment | The diffusion and impact of domestic green technology including water conservation measures; the role of builders and installers in changing building resource use; the links between energy efficiency and flood resilience; place-based and local approaches, including policy development; 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 |
| 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. |
| Dr Julie Peacock | School of Geography | Plant / Environment interactions; Plant life history strategies; Ecological value of the gardens of historic homes; Fieldwork pedagogy | |
| Professor Caroline Peacock | School of Earth and Environment | biogeochemistry; geochemistry; environmental science; mineralogy; synchrotron spectroscopy and microscopy |
| Professor Jeff Peakall | School of Earth and Environment | Sedimentology; fluid dynamics; particulate-laden flows; physical experiments; submarine channels; injectites; acoustic measurement of sediments |
| Professor Alan Pearman | Leeds University Business School | Multi-criteria decision making, risk analysis, policy and project evaluation, stakeholder engagement |
| 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. |
| 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 | mountain glaciers; remote sensing; geomorphology; Himalaya |
| 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 | 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 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; 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 |
| Dr Sally Russell | School of Earth and Environment | sustainability and business; behaviour change; organisational behaviour; organisational psychology; environmental psychology; organisational change. | |
| 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 Nicolas Salazar Sutil | School of Performance and Cultural Industries | Media arts for development; Movement Psychology; Laban movement analysis; New materialism, posthumanism; ethics; ecological thinking; Global South perspectives (Latin America and Africa) | |
| Dr Susannah Sallu | School of Earth and Environment | rural livelihoods, vulnerability and resilience climate change and development; Africa region Tanzania |
| 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 | fluorescent dyes; antioxidants; organic nanomaterials; organic-inorganic interfaces, heterogeneous catalysts, chemical reactions on surface, (photo)catalysis; photomedicine |
| Professor Andrew Shepherd | School of Earth and Environment | Earth observation; polar science; climate science |
| Dr Sumit Sinha | School of Earth and Environment | Crop yield simulation; Hydrological modelling; Water quality modelling; Hydraulic modelling and Groundwater modelling |
| 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 Andrew Sleigh | School of Civil Engineering | computational fluid dynamics cfd; river flow; flood modelling; environmental risk analysis; | |
| Dr Mark Smith | School of Geography | geomorphology; high resolution surveys; malaria; fluvial systems; roughness |
| Dr Tess Somervell | School of English | English literature, 1660-1830; nature poetry; ecocriticism; literary representations of weather and climate; floods in literature; literature and science |
| Professor Dominick Spracklen | School of Earth and Environment | Air pollution; climate; aerosol; land-atmosphere interaction; forest fire; deforestation; land-use change; conservation |
| Dr 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. |
| Professor 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 | Palaeoecology; Ecology; Microbial Ecology; Peatlands; Volcanoes and volcanic ash; Quaternary Science; Micropalaeontology; Environmental change; Extreme events | |
| Dr 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 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 |
| 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, |
| Dr Christopher Trayner | School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering | Water research | |
| Dr 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 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 |
| Dr Costas Velis | School of Civil Engineering | Environmental engineering; Circular economy; Solid waste; (Informal) Recycling; Plastics pollution; Solid recovered fuel (SRF); Mechanical sorting; Assessment methodologies/ Indicators; MFA | |
| Dr Kim Vercruysse | School of Civil Engineering | urban flood resilience, river and sediment dynamics, and catchment management. |
| 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 | |
| Dr Celia Way | School of Civil Engineering | water; sanitation; international development; public health; faecal sludge management | |
| Dr 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 Kerri Woods | School of Politics and International Studies | Human rights and environmental sustainability |
| Dr Clare Woulds | School of Geography | biogeochemistry; marine sediments; ecosystem function; isotope tracer experiments; organic geochemistry |
| 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 Sarah Elizabeth Yoho | School of English | Resilience; Tourism; Agriculture; Environmental Humanities; Ethnography | |
| 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 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 |