Ian Fairchild is a geoscientist with broad interests in the geochemistry of the Earth’s surface, climate change and Quaternary and Neoproterozoic earth history. He employs this breadth of knowledge in teaching, in public outreach, and professional activities such as examining and research assessment. He is equally at home in the field and the laboratory with a wealth of ...

Dr Alam’s research focuses on understanding the chemistry of key atmospheric pollutants. His research involves interpreting laboratory and field measurements using numerical modelling, and improving the accuracy of chemistry within atmospheric models.

Lauren Andres is an urban planner with substantive academic expertise in the field of urban and economic geography. Her fields of interest include the policies and governance process of urban and economic regeneration and broadly the understanding of the role of (temporary) creative uses and intermediaries in shaping spaces and making places. In addition she is also interesting in assessing the ...

Austin is an experienced teacher, researcher and writer who brings a passion for cities and urban life to all aspects of his professional work. He has played a leading role in development of planning education at the University of Birmingham and has established a research profile in the planning and regeneration of city centres and inner cities in Britain, Europe and North America.

Nick is a glaciologist, specialising in mass balance and dynamics of the Earth's glaciers and ice sheets. His research aims to understand how and why Earth's land ice cover is changing and the impact of these changes on global sea levels. This research involves application and analysis of airborne and satellite remote sensing tools, in situ measurements and numerical models.

Adam's research focuses on the ecology of bees, beetles, spiders and green roofs in urban and riparian systems. He is currently employed on the Open Air Laboratories project facilitating scientific learning in local communities.

Lesley Batty is the programme lead for Environmental Science and brings her enthusiasm and expertise in this area to all aspects of her work.

She has a particular interest in the ecology of industrial pollution and has spent a lot of time working in and around old metal and coal mines. Lesley is also highly active outside Birmingham and has published several textbooks, ...

Mike is Director of Learning and Teaching and Director of Undergraduate Studies at CURS. He is heavily involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and in research student supervision.

David is staff member of the National Center of Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) working at Birmingham University. His interests are in the research and development of scientific instrumentation, novel multivariate data analysis algorithms and atmospheric modelling tools used for the interpretation of data collected from atmospheric aerosols.

James is a paleoclimatologist, specialising in molecular organic geochemistry (e.g. molecular climatology). His research is focused on Cenozoic and Holocene climate evolution, high-resolution palaeoclimatology and biomarker proxy development.

My research is in the field of Air Pollution / Atmospheric Chemistry - understanding the chemical processes which control the current and future composition of our atmosphere. We approach these problems through a combination of field measurements of atmospheric constituents, laboratory studies of specific systems, and modelling simulations for comparison with observations. See my ...

Ian is a micropalaeontologist who studies ostracods (microscopic Crustacea) and runs the Isotope lab. He uses microfossils to reconstruct past environments as diverse as the Jurassic seas of SW England to the late-Quaternary of the Black, Caspian and Aral seas. Ian also spends a lot of time working on Archaeological projects.

Chris has been a lecturer in Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Birmingham from 1994 and became Senior Lecturer from 2007.

Dr Xiaoming Cai has over 20 years experience of research in large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer and in urban street canyons, dispersion of air pollutants in urban environment, and numerical modelling of meso-scale systems.

Dr Lee Chapman’s research interests are at the interface of climatology and engineering investigating the impact of weather and climate on the built environment; an important research area given the ever-increasing concentration (and vulnerability) of the population and critical infrastructure in urban areas. This covers a range of topics and sub-disciplines including ...

Julian Clark researches the political geographies of Europe, the governance of natural resources, and the interrelations between political geography and political science. He has written widely on political geography and environmental governance, and has research monographs published with Oxford University Press and Routledge.

Dr Jirina Daskova is an expert on Tertiary palynology. Her research is focused on Tertiary pollen and spores and also systematical palaeobotany in Tertiary palynology.

Dr Delgado-Saborit is an expert in exposure assessment studies using different sampling and analytical techniques to characterize inhalation doses, personal exposures and environmental levels of air pollutants. She has expertise in chemical speciation for source identification. She has coordinated large projects involving recruiting and sampling with subjects, sampling in a wide range of ...

Tom is a micropalaeontologist and paleoceanograher specializing in the study of fossil coccolithophore algae. His research interests are focused on the warm-climate states of the Paleogene period and include the evolution, systematics and ecology of coccolithophores. Tom has also worked on the paleoceanography and paleoclimates of large climate perturbations, including the ...

Warren Eastwood is a biogeographer and palaeoecologist who researches past environmental change for the last 25,000 years or so in the eastern Mediterranean region. His main specialism is elucidating natural versus human-induced vegetation change using pollen analysis (palynology). His research interests also include the impact of major volcanic eruptions and tephrochronology of volcanic ...

Jonathan Eden's research primarily focuses on the effect of climate change on regional-scale precipitation. He has a particular expertise in developing statistical downscaling techniques for precipitation simulated in climate models.  Jonathan currently works on the international research project PLEIADES, which aims to develop a statistical correction method for simulated ...

Dr. Deb Finn is funded at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences under a European Union Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship. She is part of the Water Sciences group and is hosted by Dr Alexander Milner. Her project is called “SHIRMAN” short for “SHIfting Range MArgiNs”, which refers to the expanding ranges of freshwater species (such as fish ...

Sara Fregonese is Birmingham Fellow at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Studies and the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security. Her research lies in political and urban geography and is concerned with the impact of geopolitics and security on urban life. Her work deals with civil war and urban warfare, radicalization, social cohesion and uprising. Her main empirical ...

Dr Golubchikov’s research focuses on the relationships between urbanisation and major societal transformations such as particularly linked to (a) post-socialist transitions and (b) post-carbon transitions. Much of this research has been grounded in urban political economy, as well as informed by international policy work at the intersection of energy and sustainable urbanism.

Mr Hale is currently working as part of the Liveable Cities project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). This project aims to explore the broader wellbeing impacts of low carbon interventions for cities. Specifically, he is exploring how different lighting technologies and building densities impact on ecosystem services. Prior to this he was part of ...

Dr Handley-Sidhu is a temporary lecturer at the University of Birmigham.

Research 2009-2013: EPSRC funded research consortium project, ‘Biogeochemical Application in Nuclear waste Decommissioning and Disposal’ (BANDD). This project explores using microbes and their bio-minerals to capture (immobilise) radioactive contaminant in a complex environmental ...

David is a physical geographer with interdisciplinary research interests focusing on 3 complementary themes within hydroclimatology(interface between hydrology-climatology): (1) hydroclimatological processes within alpine, Arctic, mountain and glacierized river basins; (2) climate and river flow regimes; and (3) river energy budget and thermal dynamics. He has cross-cutting ...

Stuart is an environmental chemist whose research addresses all aspects of the environmental sources, fate and behaviour of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). He has particular interests in human exposure to POPs with a focus on indoor pathways. He is also active in research that explores the environmental forensics utility of chirality.

Dr Harrington studies changes in fossil communities over space and time primarily using pollen and spores. He is expert on Cenozoic palynology with emphasis on palaeoecology and evolving interests in macroecology.

Roy Harrison’s research interests lie in the field of environment and human health. His main specialism is in air pollution, from emissions through atmospheric chemical and physical transformations to exposure and effects on human health. Much of this work is designed to inform the development of policy.

Dr Hilton is a research focused palaeobotanist and evolutionary plant biologist. His underlying goals are to increase the quantity of paleobotanical data included into evolutionary analyses and to improving the quality of existing fossil plant data. He is an Associate Editor for Palaeontologica Electronica, member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for Acta Palaeobotanica, Internet ...

Dr Phil Jardine’s research focuses on the maintenance of biodiversity in deep time. He is particularly interested in climatic controls on speciation, extinction and dispersal over different spatial and temporal scales, and in the application of ecological analytical techniques to the fossil record. He is an experienced palynologist, and has used the fossil pollen and spore record to study ...

Dr Jenkins is a Historical Geographer, with an interest in landscape change and people’s relationship with the past.

Dr Nikoleta Jones is working on the ESCALATE project (Evaluating local Social Capital effects on policy Adaptation to climate change in coastal zones) funded by the European Union Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship program. She is an expert in investigating the interactions between local social capital and environmental policy implementation.

Dr Phil Jones is a cultural geographer who focuses on issues related to the city.  His work deals with a number of research areas including urban regeneration, cycling and the arts.  He has a particular interest in research methods, including qualitative GIS, mobile interviewing and arts-based approaches.

Dr Nick Kettridge specializes in characterizing the ecohydrological resilience of ecosystems to both natural and anthropogenic disturbance. Much of his research focuses on peatlands; understanding the processes that control the provision of key ecosystem services within these environments, and quantifying their response to changing climatic conditions and extreme events such as fire and ...

Professor Jamie Lead’s research aims to understand nanoscale phenomena in the environment and he is interested in investigating natural nanomaterials, manufactured nanomaterials and their interaction. He is Director of FENAC (Facility of Environmental Nanoscience Analysis and Characterisation).

Dr Gregor Leckebusch is one of the foremost experts in the field of linking natural science research on meteorological and climatological extreme events with the estimation of natural hazards damage potentials. He played a key role in several national and international interdisciplinary projects dedicated to the assessment of natural and anthropogenic changes in extreme events and impacts of ...

Dr Mark Ledger is a freshwater ecologist with research interests which encompass disturbance ecology, food webs, species interactions, and stressor effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. He has worked at a range of spatial and temporal scales, using laboratory microcosms, field mesocosms, and natural environmental gradients.

Peter is interested in the interplay between people and place based social exclusion, how policies are designed to reduce poverty and increase competitiveness whilst reconciling the uneven trajectory and function of places. Peter has written and researched in the broad area of social exclusion with specific reference to housing markets analysis and regional planning. Peter’s policy research ...

Dr Iseult Lynch joined the academic staff at the University of Birmingham as Lecturer in Environmental Nanosciences in March 2013. She has a very broad overview of all aspects of nanomerials safety assessment and the data requirements, having served as Chair of the EU Nanosafety Cluster Working Group (NSC WG) on databases for the last 2 years (and as co-Chair of the Hazed WG prior to ...

Rob MacKenzie is an atmospheric scientist interested in problems at the interface of air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and climate. A great deal of his work has used specialist research aircraft to gather data which he interprets with the aid of atmospheric models of various kinds. Rob is developing a broader understanding of urban systems and their resilience, particularly urban ...

Dr Paul Martin joined the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at Birmingham as a Research Fellow working with Professor Valsami-Jones on the ModNanoTox project to model nanoparticle toxicity to describe the behaviour of engineered nanoparticles in organisms and the environment. The main objective of Paul’s work is to develop molecular models of surface reactivity of ...

Professor Alexander Milner has been at the University of Birmingham for 15 years, where he was initially responsible for setting up the Environmental Science and Environmental Management degrees. He is now responsible for the Masters degree in River Environmental Management. His research involves river ecosystems in alpine and Arctic environments and has long term studies in Glacier Bay ...

Dr Heiko Moossen is an organic geochemist. His interest is the development and application of geochemical biomarkers that are used to reconstruct palaeoclimate.

Dominique Moran’s research and teaching is in the new sub-discipline of ‘carceral geography’, a geographical perspective on incarceration. She currently holds ESRC funding for research into prison visitation and recidivism in the UK, has recently completed an interdisciplinary ESRC research project looking into women’s experience of imprisonment in contemporary ...

Dr Catherine Muller is currently working on the NERC-funded ‘HiTemp’ project examining Birmingham’s urban heat island using a dense network of air temperature sensors which forms part of the Birmingham Urban Climate Laboratory (BUCL), along with a number of TSB-funded projects utilising the data from this network. During her doctoral research, Catherine examined the ...

Dr. Vlad Mykhnenko is a scholar, committed to the advancement of geographical political economy, with its focus on modern capitalist social formations as spatially and temporally uneven and highly variegated systems. To this end, he combines the theoretical insights and methodologies of Economic Geography, Urban & Regional Studies, and Comparative Political Economy.

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Dr Matt O’Callaghan is an ecologist specializing in stream and floodplain invertebrate responses to disturbance. His current research is investigating the impact of drought on the functioning of stream ecosystems, part of a NERC funded project led by Dr Mark Ledger.

Dr Simon Pemberton has wide-ranging interests in urban and rural policy; community planning; social inclusion, urban regeneration management, state spatiality and the geography of state power and the policies and politics of managed migration. In this respect, following completion of his BSc and PhD in Human Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Simon initially managed an urban ...

Ian Phillips is best known for writing the most comprehensive account of the 1973 Isle of Man Summerland fire disaster. He gained his BSc Geography degree from the University of Birmingham in 1995, before continuing at the University to complete an MSc in Meteorology and Climatology and a PhD in Geography. Ian has been on the teaching staff of the University since September 1999. He is ...

Francis is a chemist with wide ranging interests in the atmospheric sciences. He applies a fundamental physicochemical approach to investigate atmospheric species and develops novel instrumentation to probe their processes.

In particular he is interested in: the assessment of geoengineering schemes, primary biological aerosols and their role in atmosphere-biosphere ...

Jessica Pykett is a social and political geographer with research interests in citizenship and the practices of governing, the geographies of education, and the formation of neurological and psychological citizen-subjectivities.

Adam Ramadan’s work lies at the intersection between political and cultural geography. It addresses the ‘everyday’ of geopolitics, how ordinary people understand and negotiate their position within broader geopolitical dynamics. Much of this work has focused on the Middle East, and in particular on refugee issues.

Joanna is a microbiologist and radiochemist with extensive experience of research into microbial interactions with radionuclides and metals, working at the interface between microbiology and analytical & radio-chemistry. She is one of the very few people in the UK who is experienced in both microbiology and the chemistry of transuranic and fission product elements, and has the skills required ...

Tim Reston is a geologist and a geophysicist with interests in the use of geophysics to study geological problems, especially tectonics. He specialises in the seismic imaging and tectonics of rifted continental margins and of slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges, with particular emphasis on detachment tectonics and the effects of mantle serpentinization.

Dr Michael Rivett is a Senior Lecturer in Contaminant Hydrogeology in the Water Sciences research groupwith a specialist field-scale research interest in the transport and remediation of organic contaminants in groundwater and contaminated land systems. He has published extensively on chlorinated solvents, DNAPLs and urban contamination and has additional on-going research interests in hyporheic ...

Jon Sadler is a biogeographer and ecologist who focuses on species population and assemblage dynamics in urban and riparian environments. His research involves interdisciplinary science using a combination of detailed field studies and field experimentation. His work emphasizes the links between environmental variability and species responses, with particular emphasis on urbanisation and ...

Over the last 20 years Dr Sambrook Smith has been investigating the linkages between river processes and sedimentology at scales ranging from individual pores within a river bed up to km-long bars in some of the Worlds largest rivers. Research aims to generate new, generic and quantitative understanding of how rivers function across these scales. This is facilitated by development of ...

Dr Schofield specializes in the seismic and field interpretation of intrusive and extrusive sequences in volcanic terranes and their interaction with hydrocarbon systems.

The combination of seismic and field studies has allowed him to make key links between seismic and sub-seismic scale issues, in particular dealing with aspects of igneous compartmentalization in a ...

Dr Zongbo Shi has a research interest in Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry and Global Biogeochemical Cycles. He is currently funded by the NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) fellowship scheme;he also holds a Birmingham University Fellowship.

Dr Carl Stevenson is a structural geologist with a focus on the emplacement and subsurface distribution of igneous and volcanic rocks. His research uses rock magnetism, geophysics and petrology to determine the large-scale geometry and internal architecture of intrusions and has led to breakthroughs in understanding magma transport and accommodation in the Earth’s crust. This work has ...

John Tellam’s main research interests are in inorganic, surface-interacting, solute and particle transport in groundwaters, with a particular emphasis on sandstone aquifers.

Professor Valsami-Jones’ research interests focus on understanding reactivity at the nanoscale, particularly interactions of nanoparticles with pollutants and biota and biomineralisation processes. She has carried out research on the interaction of a variety of carbon- and metal-based nano-objects with biota in vitro and in vivo and has pioneered novel methods of labelling ...

Dr Saskia Warren is currently working on a three year AHRC funded project entitled Cultural Intermediation and the creative economy. Working on packages 3-5 of the project, her research investigates the governance of the creative economy within Birmingham and how these governance structures intersect with artists, collectives, cultural organisations and different communities. As part of ...

James Wheeley lectures in sedimentology and sedimentary basin analysis. His research interests lie in carbonate sedimentology and applied micropalaeontology (especially conodont isotopes) which he is using to address deep time (Palaeozoic) palaeoclimatic and palaeoecological problems. He is currently involved in the European funded VISE (Vertebrate ISotopes and the Environment) research project ...

Dr Jianxin Yin is one of the experts in the field of atmospheric aerosol monitoring and characterisation. She has gained tremendous experiences during the past 13 years of research on use of modern aerosol field monitoring and modern laboratory analytical equipment and on air quality data analyses and modelling.