People in BIFoR

BIFoR Directors

Professor Rob Jackson
Professor Rob MacKenzie
Prof Jeremy Pritchard
Prof Nicola Spence

BIFoR Advisory Group

Visit the BIFoR Advisory Group page to see a list of members and further details

BIFoR Board

Chair of the BIFoR Board is Professor Laura Green, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of College of Life & Environmental Sciences

Charlotte Allen (DARO)
Lesley Ann Ford (College of Life and Environmental Sciences)
Professor Christine Foyer (College of Life and Environmental Sciences)
Professor Vincent Gauci (College of Life and Environmental Sciences - GEES)
Professor David Hannah (College of Life and Environmental Sciences)
Dr Kris Hart (College of Life and Environmental Sciences)
Professor Neil Hotchin (College of Life and Environmental Sciences - Biosciences)
Professor Rob Jackson (College of Life and Environmental Sciences - Biosciences)
Dr Estrella Luna-Diez (College of Life and Environmental Sciences - Biosciences)
Bronwen Lord (Director of Operations - College of Life and Environmental Sciences)
Professor Robin May (College of Life and Environmental Sciences)
Professor Rob MacKenzie (College of Life and Environmental Sciences - GEES
Professor David Maddison (College of Social Sciences)
Professor Robin May (College of Life and Environmental Sciences)
Dr Jon Oldfield (College of Life and Environmental Sciences - Head of School GEES)
Professor Jeremy Pritchard (College of Life and Environmental Sciences - Biosciences)
Dr Andrew Quinn (College of Engineering and Physical Sciences)
Dr Frank Uekötter (College of Art and Law)
Dr Sami Ullah (College of Life and Environmental Sciences - GEES)
Yuliya Walters (Finance)

BIFoR Science Committee

Professor Vincent Gauci (College of Life and Environmental Sciences - GEES)
Professor Christine Foyer (College of Life and Environmental Sciences)
Dr Estrella Luna-Diez (College of Life and Environmental Sciences - Biosciences)
Dr Sami Ullah (College of Life and Environmental Sciences - GEES)

BIFoR Professional Service Staff

Deanne Brettle - Project Administrator - d.brettle@bham.ac.uk
Dr Giulio Curioni - Data Manager - g.curioni@bham.ac.uk
Gael Denny - Field Technician BIFoR FACE facility
Thomas Downes - Apprentice Engineer
James Gore - Research Technician, QUINTUS project
Robert Grzesik - Research Technician, QUINTUS
Nicholas Harper - Senior Engineer FACE facility
Dr Kris Hart - Operations Manager - K.M.Hart@bham.ac.uk
Angeliki Kourmouli - Senior Research Technician, QUINTUS project
Sophie Malkin - Research Technician (Biosciences)
Peter Miles - Field Technician BIFoR FACE facility

Academic and Postdoctoral Staff and Postgraduate Students

The number of academic members of staff affiliated to BIFoR has grown quickly. BIFoR is a virtual institute of over 100 academics, primarily from the schools of Biosciences and Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences but also including members from Mathematics, Engineering, the Business School, International Development, Psychology, English, and elsewhere. University of Birmingham staff and students whose research interest is related to forested landscapes should consider themselves as part of the wider Institute of Forest Research. A list of people actively involved in research at the BIFoR FACE Facility is also available on our BIFoR FACE People page. To follow is a list of academic staff and students already affiliated with BIFoR.

College of Life and Environmental Sciences

School of Biosciences

Academic Staff

Dr Florian Busch
Dr Juliet Coates
Prof Christine Foyer
Dr Scott Hayward
Prof Rob Jackson
Dr Graeme Kettles
Dr Estrella Luna-Diez
Dr Megan McDonald
Prof Lynne Macaskie
Prof Nigel Maxted
Dr Andrew Plackett
Prof Jeremy Pritchard
Prof Robin May
Dr Susannah Thorpe

Postdoctoral Research

Dr Carolina Mayoral
Dr Mojgan Rabiey
Dr Rosa Sanchez Lucas
Dr Jade Taylor-Phillips
Dr Thomas Welch

Postgraduate Research

Please visit our Doctoral Research webpage

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Academic Staff

Dr Rebecca Bartlett
Dr Lesley Batty
Dr James Bendle
Prof William Bloss
Dr Chris Bradley
Dr Xiaoming Cai
Dr Lee Chapman
Dr Julian Clark
Dr Simon Dixon
Dr Steven Emery
Dr Adriane Esquivel Muelbert
Dr Laura Graham
Dr Nick Grayson
Professor Ian Fairchild
Dr Emma Ferranti (Ambassador for Weather and Climate)
Prof Vincent Gauci
Dr Sophie Hadfield-Hill
Dr Liz Hamilton
Dr Jason Hilton
Dr Peter Hopcroft
Dr Nicholas Kettridge
Prof Peter Kraftl
Prof Stefan Krause
Dr Joshua Larsen
Dr Gregor Leckebush
Dr Peter Lee
Dr James Levine (Ambassador for the Built Environment)
Prof Rob MacKenzie
Dr Thomas Matthews
Dr Domanique Moran
Dr Christian Pfrang
Prof Francis Pope
Dr Tom Pugh
Jim Reynolds
Prof Jon Sadler
Prof Greg Sambrook-Smith
Dr Zongbo Shi
Dr Roberto Sommariva
Dr Sami Ullah
Dr Anne Van Loon
Dr Sebastian Watt

Postdoctoral Research

Dr Marie Arnaud
Dr Josep Barba Ferrer
Dr Daijun Liu
Dr Jiaojiao Ma
Dr Michaela Reay
Dr Susanne Suvanto

Postgraduate researchers

Please visit our Doctoral Research webpage

School of Psychology

Dr Ali Mazaheri
Prof Jane Raymond

Doctoral Reseach
Eszter Toth

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Prof Phillip Davies
Bradly Deeley
Dr Rosemary Dyson
Dr Bruno Fraga
Dr Mike Jesson
Galene Luo
Dr Chris Mayhew
Dr Natalia Petrovskaya
Dr Andrew Quinn
Bruno Santos
Dr David Soper
Prof Joe Wood

College of Arts and Law

Prof Alexandra Harris
Prof John Holmes
Prof Corey Ross
Dr Angus Brown
Dr Louise Hardwick
Dr Will Tattershill
Dr Frank Uekotter
Dr Matthew Ward

Doctoral Researchers
Dion Dobrzynski
Thomas Kaye

College of Social Sciences

Prof Robert Elliott
Prof David Maddison
Prof Fiona Nunan (International Development Department)
Dr Brock Bersaglio

Doctoral Researchers
Maria Gonzalez Valencia
Harriet Croome

Previous staff of University of Birmingham who have moved on

Will Allwood
Phil Blaen
Selvakumar Dhandapani
Francesca Jarvis-Rouse
Iain Johnston
Gary McClean
Alex Poynter
Prof Michael Tausz
Dr Sabine Tausz-Posch
Dr Rick Thomas

Previous Distinguished Visiting Fellows

BIFoR works closely with the University’s Institute of Advanced Studies to host Distinguished Visiting Fellows.

Dr Teresa Blume
Dr Kristine Crous - University of Western Sydney
Prof David Ellsworth - University of Western Sydney
Prof Tait Keller
Dr Debbie Hemming - Met Office
Prof Rich Norby
Dr Mantha S. Phanikumar
Prof Sharon Robinson