Doctoral research students 

Ismail A Adwibi is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Eugenia Valsami-Jones, on a project entitled: "The effect of nanomaterials on the effective conjugation for drug delivery system."

Hassan Ageel is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Dr Mohamed Abdallah, on a project entitled: "Assessment of distribution and human exposure to microplastics in the indoor environment."

Muneera Faraj H M Al-Mansoori is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Dr Mohammed Abdallah, on a project entitled: "Elucidating the magnitude and implications of human exposure to microplastics (MPs) and associated chemicals via inadvertent ingestion."

Ali Alsanad is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Roy Harrison, on a project entitled: "An investigation into the long-term influence of ambient air pollution exposure on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) exacerbation risk, disease progression and quality of life."

Thanawan Buacharoen is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Eugenia Valsami-Jones, on a project entitled: "Development of nanohybrid fertilizer to control release macronutrient (NPK) in soil."

Jessica Chadwick is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Iseult Lynch, on a project entitled: "Application of nanomaterials in precision agriculture to opt imise nitrogen use efficiency and increase global food security."

Budsakorn Chommueang is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Dr Surindar Dhesi, on a project entitled: "GIS modelling for prediction of environmental factors that cause and influence rat habitation in suburban areas, Thailand."

Seny is a PhD student in the Division of Environmental Health and Risk Management. Her research focuses on ultrafine particles (UFPs), tiny particles with diameters less than 100 nanometers, in the urban atmosphere. Broadly, she is interested in understanding the sources and processes affecting this harmful yet not-been-regulated pollutant in the urban atmosphere.

Grace Davies is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Iseult Lynch, on a project entitled: "Assessment of the suitability and modification of standard soil assays to study the biodegradation of microplastics."

Sophie Feltz is a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her project focusses on Temporal-Spatial Clustering of Extreme Extratropical Cyclones in a Changing Climate. Broadly, she is interested to understand how Extratropical Cyclones cluster both in space and in time. She is also passionate about Widening Participation in Higher Education and regularly ...

Cristiana Gheorghe is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Iseult Lynch, on a project entitled: "Integrating Life Cycle Assessment into the design of safe and sustainable nano-enabled precision agriculture and medicine."

Laura James is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Dr Christian Pfrang, on a project entitled: "Investigating the Impact of Volatile Organic Compounds Released by Plants in Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stressors under ambient and elevated CO2 conditions."

Jingxi Jin is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Stuart Harrad, on a project entitled: "The sorption of flame retardant chemicals (FRs) to microplastics."

Adams Alpha Kamara is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Roy Harrison, on a project entitled: "In-depth multi-component study of air quality processes."

Mohammed Khan is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Eugenia Valsami-Jones, on a project entitled: "Microencapsulation of medicinal substances in liposome structures."

Agung Ghani Kramawijaya is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Zongbo Shi, on a project entitled: "Aerosol Particle Source Apportionment in the Arctic Atmosphere Using PMF Analysis and Isotope Analysis."

Maryam Makanvand is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof William Bloss, on a project entitled: "An investigation into the effects of long-term and short-term air pollution on health morbidity and mortality in the UK."

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

Vitalis is an enthusiastic researcher with over a decade of experience in the pharmaceutical drug research industry, applied health research, and clinical trials management. He is particularly interested in household and occupational particulate matter (PM) human exposure and PM source apportionment, with a specific focus on PM exposure in vulnerable populations, such as children.

Tajudeen Oyehan is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Eugenia Valsami-Jones, on a project entitled: "Designing out toxic features in polymer-coated nanomaterials synthesized for water treatment."

Nigar Parvin is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Dr Christian Pfrang, on a project entitled: "Monitoring UHI Vulnerability Of Dhaka Mega City Using Multi-Temporal And Multi Spectral Satellite Imagery."

Rega Permana is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Eugenia Valsami-Jones, on a project entitled: "Fate of Nanoplastics in Marine Microalgae: Uptake, Toxicity and its Trophic Transfer Study."

Hyellai Pona is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Roy Harrison, on a project entitled: "Cross-sectional studies of air pollution and health."

Timothy Ezeorba is a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Environmental Health and Risk Management and a PTDF scholar. He is currently training to become an expert in the ecotoxicological assessment of emerging pollutants and the adaptation of natural products for health and environmental sustainability. 

Mr. Juncheng Qian is a Ph.D. student in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. He specializes in exploring the co-benefits of achieving net zero emissions and improving air quality, especially in the housing sector. His research has enabled him to make significant contributions to the fields of climate change, energy transition, sustainability, ...

Katharine Rowley is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Iseult Lynch, on a project entitled: "Tyre and brake-wear microplastics: degradation in soil and surface water."

Yizhou Su is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Dr Christian Pfrang, on a project entitled: "Evaluation of health effects caused by indoor ultrafineparticles for vulnerable groups."

Ruije Tang is a PhD candidate specialising in the study of indoor air, with a particular emphasis on cooking emissions and their effects. His research is pivotal in enhancing the understanding of how cooking practices impact indoor air quality and human exposure.

Hasan Tariq is currently a PhD researcher in Environmental Health and Risk Management working on a Siemens-UoB Research Project. His research focuses on Real-time Indoor Environmental Quality by on-site sampling, detection and measurement of airborne pollutants and pathogens. He designs and implements methods and solutions for real-time multi-scale assessments and patterns detection with ...

Chengxu Tong is currently a PhD researcher in Environmental Health and Risk Management. His main research interests are in the air quality and climate change. He applies machine learning method and the causal inference to evaluate transport interventions on air quality. And he also focuses on the combined effect of extreme temperature and air pollution on public health. 

Abubakar Umar is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Dr Mohammed Abdallah, on a project entitled: "Exploring the Impacts of Exposure of Daphnia Sp. to Micropl astics and Associated Chemicals in the Aquatic Environment."

Shijie Wang is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Stuart Harrad, on a project entitled: "Air Pollution with Organophosphate Triester Flame Retardants and their Diester Degradation Products."

Lisi Wu is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Iseult Lynch, on a project entitled: "Fate of Microplastic Particles in Wastewater Environment."

Liu Yang is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Stuart Harrad, on a project entitled: "Environmental Exposure and Human Health."

Aidan Yiu is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Eugenia Valsami-Jones, on a project entitled: "Nanoscale boundaries: understanding size effects on the reactivity of ultra-small particles."

Kun Zhang is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, supervised by Prof Stuart Harrad, on a project entitled: "Luminescence lifetime-based sensing solid interfaces for the determination of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)."

Miss Xiaoqi Zhang is a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her project is focusing on risk assessment of storm surges in storm surge in Chinese coast. She is interested in extreme events and focuses on the studies of meteorological hazards including tropical cyclones and storm surges and the main research area is Asia, especially the Chinese coast.

Matthew Allison is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr. Stephen Jones. His project is entitled: "New North Atlantic Palaeo-Temperature Reconstruction from Terrestrial Sedimentary Archives: Implications for the Influence of the Icelandic Plume on Oceanic Circulation and Climate."

Saad Al-Yousuf is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof. David Hannah. His project is entitled: "Climate Change impacts on water resources management: implications and adaptation."

Jake Atterby is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof. Sam Giles. His project is entitled: "Unravelling early teleost relationships: diversification at the dawn of the most successful fish radiation."

Gemma Baker is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Sarah Greene. Her project is entitled: "Life on the edge: new tools to track animal-forest trophic interaction across intact to degraded ecosystems."

Hannah Bird is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Kirsty Edgar. Her project is entitled: "Fish like it hot? Response of fish and shark communities to abrupt past global warming."

Iacopo Cavicchini is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof Sam Giles. His project is entitled: "Tackling taxonomic and taphonomic biases in the Early Triassic fossil fish record."

Patthapong Chaiseanwang is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr James Bendle, on a project entitled: "An application of a new suite of biomarkers from Gram-negative bacteria to reconstruct the first Holocene temperature in Southeast Asia region based on 3-hydroxy fatty acids."

Xin-Shi Cheng is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof Jason Hilton, on a project entitled: "Seeds as proxies of seed plant evolutionary and diversity changes through profound intervals of climate and environment change."

Dan Doherty is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Sarah Greene, on a project entitled: "Global carbon cycle feedbacks from massive volcanism."

Soph Fasey is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof Sam Giles, on a project entitled: "Uniting taphonomy and tomography to illuminate early actinopterygian evolution."

Sarah Gale is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Shan Huang, on a project entitled: "The relationship between marine extinction and climate change in space and time."

Sushanth Gattupalli is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Tom Dunkley Jones, on a project entitled: "Investigating late miocene cocclith."

Changhai Hou is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr James Bendle, on a project entitled: "The application of 3-OH-FA based biomarkers to lake sediments."

Hazel Knight is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Stephen Jones, on a project entitled: "Did the North Atlantic Igneous Provice drive the paleocene-eocene thermal maximum?"

Marie Marsden is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof Richard Butler, on a project entitled: "Stratigraphy and dinosaur palaeontology of the Wealden Group, Isle of Wight."

Michael McKnight is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof Kirsty Edgar, on a project entitled: "Stratigraphies from key exploration areas in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean."

Kerys Meredew is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Sebastian Watt, on a project entitled: "Magma-reservoir evolution following edifice destruction at Krakatau and Ritter Volcanoes."

Litanya Octonovrilna is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Sebastian Watt, on a project entitled: "Complex tsunami hazard processes and exposure in Sulawesi, Indonesia."

Deborah Parke is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Sebastian Watt, on a project entitled: "Examining eruption processes in the Chichinautzin volcanic field, working with samples from the Lake Chalco sediment core, Central Mexico."

Ibrahim Yusuf is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Stephen Jones, on a project entitled: "Structure and Dynamics of the Porcupine Magma-Poor Continental Margin from new Ocean Bottom Seismometer Data."

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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). 

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 ...

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. 

Diletta Accardo is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Prof. Dominique Moran on a project focussed on Carceral Geography. 

Maryam Al Obaid is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Prof. Jon Oldfield on a project that explores the  design of a transformational policy appraisal model that would uplift the capacity in developing robust public policies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Somaia Alhaso is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Dr Fraser Sugden on a project that explores migration in Indonesia

Abdullah Faisal A Alturki is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Dr Rakib Akhtar on a project titled: "Urban Regeneration Policies for Slums in Madinah, Saudi Arabia"

Maya is a doctoral candidate in human geography. Her project examines the impact of military checkpoints on the civilian population’s perception of security in Lebanon. Her research interests include checkpoints, urban and political geography, militarism, and civil-military relations in post-conflict societies, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.

Naya is a PhD student at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her research project focuses on urban subjective wellbeing and its relations to urban planning, active travel, and public transport use in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Cyril is a doctoral student at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science (GEES), University of Birmingham, supported by the Federal Government of Nigeria Scholarship. He has established collaborative networks, both locally and internationally, aimed at enhancing decision-making processes concerning climate change adaptation and the holistic management of the physical environment.

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Jiajie Fan is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, his main research interests are input-output analysis, foreign direct investment and  sustainable development pathway.

Lihui Ji is an urban geographer with wide-ranging interests in issues related to urban transformation. Her research focuses on gentrification, neighbourhood change, socio-spatial inequality, and urban tourism, particularly how changing urban spaces are experienced, influenced, and imagined in the digital age.

Terence Johnson is a successful Passenger Transport Manager with extensive experience in business transformation. He has embarked on a cutting-edge PhD research project with the University of Birmingham, examining energy transitions in the road passenger transport industry

Arooj is a Children's Geographer and community arts practitioner interested in how children and young people's civic participation is affected by contemporary regeneration practices. Through an artistic alias (Artem et Populis) she is conducting research which uses the large-scale regeneration within Thurrock, Essex to understand how changes in the physical, social and cultural landscape in ...

Sudarshan's PhD research investigates the multifaceted nature of energy poverty in Nepal, focusing on variations across rural and urban contexts and its interaction with external shocks, including climate change impacts.

His research interests broadly include energy justice, renewable energy, the capability approach, human development, and climate change.

He has experience working with private, ...

Tom Lewis is a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. His research focuses on the interactions between counter-terrorism and pandemic urbanism, and on questions of the affective and atmospheric dimensions of emergency governance and post-disaster urban environments.

Jianchang Li is a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at University of Birmingham. He focuses on and stay interested in research projects related to Global Key Industry Emission, Emission Accounting, Decarbonisation and Net-Zero.

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.

Ruby, currently a PhD Candidate at the Department of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, is dedicated to investigating the intersection of political economy and spatial geography in relation to air pollution exposure within low-income communities in Nepal's Kathmandu valley. 

Title of PhD: Another New Regionalism? Landscapes of economic governance in the coalition era

Supervisors: Professor John Bryson, Dr Julian Clark

Jacob Salder is conducting research in relation to economic governance and approaches to the implementation and delivery of economic policy in the light of the changing environment under the Coalition Government.

The governance of economic ...

Jinghang Xu is a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her project focuses on accounting for carbon emissions in developing countries and cities.