Doctoral research students 

Our Doctoral research students within the School research themes:

Environmental Health Sciences

Ismail Adwibi

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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 Damayanti

Seny Damayanti

PhD student

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.

Email
sxd946@student.bham.ac.uk

Grace Davies

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Sophie Feltz

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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 ...

Email
sxf229@student.bham.ac.uk

Cristiana Gheorghe

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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 Mansfield

Imogen Mansfield

Postgraduate Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Email
ilm851@student.bham.ac.uk

Vitalis Nwokorie

Vitalis Nwokorie

PhD Student

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.

Email
vcn083@bham.ac.uk

Tajudeen Oyehan

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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 Prince Chidike Ezeorba

Timothy Prince Chidike Ezeorba

Post Graduate Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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. 

Email
t.p.c.ezeorba@pgr.bham.ac.uk

Juncheng Qian

Juncheng Qian

PhD Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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, ...

Email
jxq370@student.bham.ac.uk

Katharine Rowley

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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."

Ruijie Tang

Ruijie Tang

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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.

Email
rxt042@student.bham.ac.uk

Hasan Tariq

Hasan Tariq

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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 ...

Email
hxt253@student.bham.ac.uk

Chengxu Tong

Chengxu Tong

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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)."

Xiaoqi Zhang

Xiaoqi Zhang

PhD Student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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.

Email
xxz252@student.bham.ac.uk

Earth Sciences

Matthew Allison

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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-Yousof

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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."

Physical Geography

Mohammed Alharbi

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Estelle Darko

PhD Student

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.

Email
egd852@student.bham.ac.uk

Pankti Prashant Dhumal

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Grace Handy

Grace Handy

Postgraduate Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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 ...

Email
gih849@student.bham.ac.uk

Shomari Healy

PhD student

Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Caroline Johnson

PhD student

Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences

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

PhD student

Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences

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 Kusumarini

Novalia Kusumarini

Postgraduate researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Email
nxk120@student.bham.ac.uk

Surapong Lerdrittipong

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Kexin Li

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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 Nathaniel Linga

Seth Nathaniel Linga

PhD student

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.

Email
sxl1405@student.bham.ac.uk

Yanzhi Lu

Yanzhi Lu

PhD Candidate

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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.

Email
yxl1480@student.bham.ac.uk

Nicholas Lugg

Nicholas Lugg

Doctoral Researcher

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 ...

Email
njl094@student.bham.ac.uk

Guilin Luo

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Rachel Mailes

Postgraduate Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Email
rxm508@student.bham.ac.uk

Imogen Mansfield

Imogen Mansfield

Postgraduate Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Email
ilm851@student.bham.ac.uk

Jessica Millen

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Ritesh Moon

PhD student

Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences

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

Susan Quick

Research Fellow

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Maria Wagner Jørgensen

Postgraduate Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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. 

Telephone
+44 793 679 2172
Email
mwj207@student.bham.ac.uk

Chenlu Yang

PhD student

Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Yuxia Yang

PhD Student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences

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."

Human Geography

Rammohan Khanapurkar

Rammohan Khanapurkar

PhD Researcher
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Rammohan is a doctoral researcher at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES), supported by MGS ESRC DTP. He is exploring intergenerational transition of educational and rehabilitation spaces and its entangled materialities with the memories of East Bengal Partition refugees. Broadly, his interdisciplinary and intersectional research interests interact with historical ...

Email
rxk102@student.bham.ac.uk

Diletta Accardo

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Maryam Al Obaid

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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 Breau

Maya Breau

Doctoral Researcher in Human Geography

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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.

Email
mxb1204@student.bham.ac.uk

Naya Cinantya Drestalita

Naya Cinantya Drestalita

PhD student

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.

Email
ncd280@student.bham.ac.uk

Mr Cyril Effiong

Mr Cyril Effiong

Doctoral Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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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Telephone
07818156996
Email
cxe921@bham.ac.uk

Jiajie Fan

Jiajie Fan

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Email
jxf224@student.bham.ac.uk

Yuxin Gao

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Yuxin Gao is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Prof Peter Kraftl on a project titled: "Rethinking the children-nature-technology assemblages: engaging young people in the construction of sustainable eco-communities"

Safiya Hamis

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Safiya Hamis is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Dr Natasha Cornea on a project titled: "Breaking Barriers: Muslim Women and the Fight for Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Northern Nigeria."

Yihang Huang

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Yihang Huang is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Dr David Jaroszweski on a project titled: "The impact of weather on transport system and individual's travel behavior in a temporal and geographic context."

Lihui Ji

Lihui Ji

Doctoral Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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.

Email
lxj351@student.bham.ac.uk

Terence R Johnson

Terence R Johnson

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

Email
trj086@student.bham.ac.uk

Arooj Khan

Arooj Khan

Doctoral Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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 ...

Email
axk734@student.bham.ac.uk

Sudarshan Kunwar

Sudarshan Kunwar

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, ...

Email
s.kunwar@pgr.bham.ac.uk

Thomas Lewis

Thomas Lewis

PhD Student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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.

Telephone
07903545613
Email
txl216@student.bham.ac.uk

Jianchang Li

Jianchang Li

Postgraduate Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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.

Email
jxl1845@student.bham.ac.uk

Yanzhi Lu

Yanzhi Lu

PhD Candidate

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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.

Email
yxl1480@student.bham.ac.uk

Ruby Maka Shrestha

Ruby Maka Shrestha

PGR

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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. 

Email
rxm623@student.bham.ac.uk

Priyanka Mokale

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Priyanka Mokale is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Dr Surindar Dhesi on a project titled: "Understanding the Infrastructure accessing challenges of Homeless people – Study of Homeless Scheduled Caste communities of The Mumbai City."

Nooreeza Nabi

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Nooreeza Nabi is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Dr Adam Ramadan on a project titled: "Return & Reintegration: Exploring the experiences of refused  Pakistani asylum seekers."

Pablo Rivas Castillo

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Pablo Rivas Castillo is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Dr Rosie Day on a project titled: "Generation of energy poverty, social and environmental inequalities caused by the implementation of the public decontamination plan in the city of Coyhaique, southern Chile."

Charlene Rose

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Charlene Rose is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Prof Patricia Noxolo on a project titled: "How post-war immigration has shaped the Linguistic Landscape of Erdington, Birmingham through independent commercial business signage and window displays in the area."

Jacob Salder

Doctoral Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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 ...

Email
jxs043@bham.ac.uk

Jessy Shallcross

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Jessy is interested in the intersection of human geography, neuroscience, and mental health. Her PhD research explores how the technological promise of neuroscience is advanced through young people’s encounters with eMental health services and smartphone applications (apps) that are designed to assist users in moderating and managing symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress. The research ...

Kritika Singh

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Kritika Singh is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Dr Natasha Cornea on a project titled: "Water access by marginalised populations in India."

Nushrat Tashmin

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Nushrat Tashmin is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Dr Fraser Sugden on a project titled 'Climate Change Induced Migration; Sustainable Crisis Management and Resilience of Vulnerable Climate Migrant Communities'

William Thurbin

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

William Thurbin is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Prof Dominique Moran on a project focussed around Carceral Geography.

Jinghang Xu

Jinghang Xu

PhD Candidate

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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.

Email
jxx245@student.bham.ac.uk

Xiaofan Yang

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Xiaofan Yang is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Dr Yuli Shan on a project titled "High-resolution accounting of carbon emission and applications."

Jingting Yao

Jingting Yao

PhD Student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Jingting Yao is a PhD student in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her project focuses on the intersection of 3D reconstruction and affective computing. Broadly, she is interested in understanding how multimodal pre-training based on affective computing can be applied to reconstruct and optimise virtual scenarios.

Email
jxy372@student.bham.ac.uk

Jamila Musa Wakawa Zanna

PhD student

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Jamila Musa Wakawa Zanna is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, supervised by Dr Surindar Dhesi on a project titled: "Navigating uncertainty : A phenomenological exploration of the lived experiences of internally displaced women in Nigeria."