Postgraduate Research Students

Mohammed Alharbi is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Prof Stefan Krause on a project titled: "Integrated analyses of groundwater and surface flood risks".

Rehab Almutairi is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Prof Sami Ullah on a project titled: "Forests restoration under global change: response of young plantations to drought and atmospheric nitrogen deposition."

Fuad Alqrinawi is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Prof Stefan Krause on a project titled: "Fate and transport of micro-and nanoplastics in groundwater".

Alex Armstrong is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Prof Sami Ullah on a project titled: "Effects of atmospheric Nitrogen pollution on Soil Carbon Storage and Greenhouse Gas Emission from Forests Soils".

Aakash Basi is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Dr Liz Hamilton on a project titled: "Development of neosoils for ecological remediation of legacy pollutants".

Eva Benavides Rios is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Dr Tom Matthews on a project titled: "Macroecology and the conservation of island biodiversity in the face of global environmental and climatic change".

Aaron Bhambra is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Prof Jon Sadler on a project titled: "Does habitat fragmentation impact the species assemblage of pollinators in relict urban heathlands across a UK city?"

Erina Brown is a PhD candidate supervised by Dr Sophie Comer-Warner, on a project entitled: "Fate and transport of micro-and nanoplastics in groundwater"

Zijian Chen is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Prof Stefan Krause on a project titled: "Modelling microplastic fate and transport in freshwater ecosystems".

Osanna Chu is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Dr Tom Matthews on a project titled: "Predicting functional diversity loss across islands for plants and birds".

Estelle Darko is a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her research focuses on the factors that influence forest diversity and how diversity may be linked to forests’ resilience to climate change.

Pankti Prashant Dhumal is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Prof Eugenia Valsami-Jones, on a project entitled: "Design of safe and sustainable nano-lubricants".

Nine Douwes Dekker is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Prof Sami Ullah on a project titled: "Identifying tipping points regulating greenhouse gas emission from soils at two forest free air CO₂ enrichment experiments".

Dominic Eardly is a PhD candidate supervised by Prof David Hannah, on a project entitled: "Research into and analysis of Digital Elevation Models for use in overseas hydrological analysis".

Oula Ebrahim is a PhD candidate supervised by Dr Chris Bradley, on a project entitled: "Modelling scenarios for sustainable agriculture in arid regions: an Iraqi case study".

Sarah Fairbrother is a PhD candidate supervised by Dr Simon Dixon, on a project entitled: "Rivers of the dammed: how should beavers fit and function in UK landscapes?"

Henry Gauder is a PhD candidate supervised by Prof Eugenia Valsami-Jones, on a project entitled: "Nanoscale boundaries: understanding size effects on the reactivity of ultra-small particles".

Thomas Gribbin is a PhD candidate supervised by Prof David Hannah, on a project entitled: "Water cycling in high-altitude wetlands: implications for water security in the Peruvian Andes".

 

Hannah Gunter is a PhD candidate supervised by Dr Chris Bradley, on a project entitled: "Environmental Applications of Fluorescence Spectroscopy".

Grace Handy is a NERC CENTA funded PhD student. Her research interests are tree and forest dynamics in response to global change, particularly increases in atmospheric CO2. Her work is based at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research Free Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment (BIFoR FACE) experiment, where she investigates the future of tree carbon allocation, with specific focus on the impact of ...

Shomari Healy is a PhD candidate supervised by Dr Liling Chang, on a project entitled: "How much carbon will forests take up in the future?"

Marjan Jilardi Damavandi is a PhD candidate supervised by Prof Eugenia Valsami-Jones, on a project entitled: "Nanomaterial applications in air pollution".

Caroline Johnson is a PhD candidate supervised by Dr Laura Graham, on a project entitled: "Balancing human and biodiversity needs from agricultural landscapes".

Fatima Khan is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography supervised by Dr Josh Larsen, on a project entitled: "Forests of the future: What, when and how will trees get their water".

Novalia is a PhD candidate in Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences focused on root exudates' effect on nitrogen acquisition. 

Surapong Lerdrittipong is a PhD candidate supervised by Dr Chris Bradley, exploring applications of WRF-Hydro in studying the climate of Thailand.

Kexin Li is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Prof Stefan Krause on a project titled: "Contaminant cycling at river-aquifer interfaces".

Seth's research aims to unfold the philosophical foundations of global irrigation models, including their premises, subjectivity, and connection to the real world. Through the DAWN project, he seeks to contribute new knowledge and improve the use of mathematical models as tools for scientific inquiry and policy-making in irrigated agriculture.

Yanzhi is a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. His research interest is the intersection of urban geography, planning, and environmental science. Specifically, he is focusing on the environmental benefits and impacts of urban green infrastructure.

Nicholas Lugg is a doctoral researcher in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. His research focuses on monitoring ‘hot spots’ and ‘hot moments’ of nutrient cycling within rural river environments. His work aims to understand how we can manage our river catchments to promote resilience to future disturbance and how enhancing natural processes could ...

Guilin Luo is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Prof Stefan Krause on a project titled: "Advanced methods for monitoring soil-plant-water interactions in a changing climate".

Rachel Mailes is a PhD student interested in forest ecology and ecosystem interactions.

Imogen is currently researching the use of birds as bioindicators of plastic pollution in the terrestrial environment. Funded by CENTA (NERC). 

Jessica Millen is a PhD candidate supervised by Prof Eugenia Valsami-Jones, on a project entitled: "Environmental transformations of nanomaterials".

Ritesh Moon is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography supervised by Dr Shasha Han, on a project entitled: "Real-time flood forecasting using a machine learning technique".

Susan Quick is a multi-disciplined part-time doctoral student researching in the fields of ecohydrology and plant science with Birmingham Institute for Forest Research (BIFoR). A retired chartered engineer and safety practitioner she has more than 40 years industrial work experience mainly in the rail industry. In addition to academic research she undertakes a range of citizen science ...

Andrea Rabbai is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Prof Stefan Krause on a project titled: "Nutrient and greenhouse gas emissions in managed forests".

Md Marufur Rahman is a PhD candidate supervised by Prof Greg Sambrook-Smith, on a project entitled: "Study of the causes and spatio-temporal variation of river-bank erosion and its impact on household and communities in Bangladesh".

Manon Rumeau is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography, supervised by Prof Sami Ullah on a project titled: "Biological nitrogen fixation in forest soils under elevated CO₂: response of a key soil nutrient to global change."

Klaske Van Wijngaarden is a PhD candidate joint-supervised between Western Sydney University (Benjamin Smith, Belinda Medlyn), and University of Birmingham (Joshua Larsen, Thomas Pugh).

Maria Wagner Jørgensen is a PhD researcher in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her PhD research focuses on changes in functional diversity of island communities with species extinction and introductions and aims to contribute knowledge to prevent further species loss. 

Chenlu Yang is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography supervised by Dr Shasha Han, on a project entitled: "Flood futures: how is flood hazard risk evolving in the UK?"

Lu Yang is a PhD candidate in Physical Geography supervised by Dr Josh Larsen, on a project entitled: "Stream synchrony: understanding the synchrony of nutrients, pollution, and water in river ecosystems". 

Yuxia Yang is a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her project focusses on microplastics distribution and transport process in groundwater. Broadly, she is interested to develop the automated method for microplastics detection in groundwater samples, understand the distribution of microplastics in groundwater, and investigate the additives release process ...

Hongzheng Zhu is a PhD candidate supervised by Dr Kieran Khamis, on a project entitled: "Multiobjective optimisation of Green Infrastructure practices using NSGA-II and VELMA."