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 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
Dr Jenny Armstrong	School of Earth and Environment
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 James Ault	School of Molecular and Cellular Biology	Structural Mass Spectrometry
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	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
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
Finn Barlow-Duncan	School of Geography
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 Steven Boeing	School of Earth and Environment	Atmospheric convection
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
Dr Andy Brown	School of Chemical and Process Engineering	Nanoparticles and analytical electron microscopy
Professor Lee Brown	School of Geography	aquatic ecology; river ecosystems; biodiversity; food webs; ecosystem processes; alpine; arctic; peatlands; environmental-flows
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
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 Sarah Cooper	School of Politics and International Studies	Water security and wellbeing; water governance and policy; livelihoods and climate resilience; urban sanitation.
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.
Dr Samuel Eze	School of Earth and Environment	Soil health; soil carbon dynamics; ecosystem carbon flux; carbon sequestration; climate-smart agriculture; climate change
Dr Marie Ferré	School of Earth and Environment
Professor Les Firbank	School of Biology	Agro-ecology; sustainable agriculture; urban food systems
Mrs Linda Forbes	School of Earth and Environment	ms, icp-ms, la-icp-ms and method validation for instrumentation
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.
Dr Marcelo Galdos	School of Earth and Environment
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
Dr Pete Gill	School of Geography
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 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. 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
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	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 Hebin Lin	School of Earth and Environment	Ecological economics, watershed governance, public-private partnerships, environmental planning, water resources management.
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
Addi Manolopoulou	School of History
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 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.
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.
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
Dr Claire Quinn	School of Earth and Environment	Links between ecological and socio-economic processes in the management and conservation of natural resources.
Dr Ben Rabb	School of Earth and Environment
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 Janet Richardson	School of Earth and Environment
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
Dr Teresa Roncal-Herrero	School of Food Science and Nutrition
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
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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	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
Dr John Stanford	Chemical and Process Engineering
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
Melanie Stonard	School of Geography
Professor Lindsay Stringer	School of Earth and Environment	Political ecologies of environmental change; land degradation and desertification; participatory processes; environmental governance.
Dr Mark Sumner	School of Design	Fashion, sustainability, retail management, fashion technology
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
Dr Mark Taylor	School of Design	Clothing comfort; protective clothing; fashion technology; sustainability; climbing helmets; testing
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
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 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
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
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