Current PGRs

University of Hull

Lydia Brackwell (2023)
Assessing the threat to Antarctic shallow marine ecosystems from hitchhikers on non-native kelp.

Jordan Chenery (2023)

Jamie Smith (2022)
Nutrigenomics and the resilience of bees in a changing climate

Edward Gilbert (2021, DTP Associate)

Testing new genomic tools for predicting winners and losers of climate change

Amber Wagstaffe (2020)
The evolution of functional disparity in the avian skull

Rick McCumskay (2020)
Time-dependent ultraviolet degradation of marine neustonic plastics

Sara Peixoto (2019)
Understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of environmental DNA for monitoring and management of priority invasive species

Fiona Chong (2019, DTP Associate)
Linking functional and demographic traits to predict population viability of marginal coral populations

Paolo Moccetti (2019, DTP Associate)
Quantifying the evolutionary response to anthropogenic selection in migrating species


University of Leeds

School of Biology

Gabrielle Baillargeon (2023)

Zoe Hudson (2023)
Pheromones, pathogens and pesticides: How do these interact to affect the health and productivity of social and solitary bees?

Morven Rae-Seaman (2022)
Identifying and protecting coral reef adaptive potential

Thomas Logan (2021)
Reconciling lethal control of an iconic native species (red deer Cervus elaphus) with nature conservation within a multiple-use landscape.

Jasper Rees (2021)
How do animals adapt to stressful environments? Consequences for species interactions and extinction risk

Anthony Bracuti (2020)
Learning to communicate: How do pheromones work in social and solitary bees and how did they evolve?

Alex Wakeman (2020)
Resolving the limitations on plant growth and biomass

Samuel Hughes (2019)
Hedges and edges: landscape effects on forest biodiversity and ecosystem function.

Sebastian Stroud (2019)
Ecosystem services associated with aquatic plants in urban landscapes

School of Chemistry

Ambili Vallipparambil Babu (Jan 2024)
Advancing our understanding of dimethyl sulphide oxidation products by field observation of formaldehyde and photolysis frequencies

Thomas Luke (2023)
Long-term measurements of OH reactivity: A potential new metric for air quality?

Kate Livesey (2022)

Danny McConnell (2022)
MUlti-faceted Studies on Highly Oxidized Organic Molecules (MUSHrOOM)

Niamh Robertson (2021)
Atmospheric Chemistry of Multifunctional Compounds

Rachel Lade (2020)
Better air quality through chemistry: Real-time monitoring of reactive trace species in key atmospheric reactions impacting air quality

Samuel Seldon (2020)
Advancing our understanding of peroxy radical chemistry in the atmosphere

William Warman (2019)
Applications of Proton Transfer Mass Spectrometry to Chamber Studies of Gas Phase Oxidation Processes

Callan Jennings (2019)
Long-term measurements of OH reactivity: A new metric for air quality

School of Civil Engineering

Maria Luisa Taccari (2020)
Physics informed deep learning for groundwater prediction

Molly Asher (2019)
Adaptation strategies to pluvial urban flood risk under UKCP18 climate change scenarios

School of Geography

Hannah Barnett (2023)

Robin Gledhill (2023)
Using Palaeoecology to inform blanket peatland management

Kulanagana Theivendrarajah (2023)

Isaac Dawson (2023)

Sanola Sandiford (2023)
Modelling climate futures, impacts, response and adaptation options for Arctic communities

Bethany Adams (2022)

Connie Harpur (2022)

Viviana Ceccarelli (2022)

Eleanor Williams (2022)

Nicola Kerr (2021)
River ecosystem responses to decreasing glacier cover

Elizabeth Mroz (2021)
Hydro-dynamic modelling of malaria environmental suitability

Josiah Judson (2021)
Agroforestry, soil health and delivery of public goods

Alexandra Scoffield (2021)
Proglacial lakes and their impact on Himalayan glacier evolution

Daniel Colson (2020)
Remote sensing of recent changes in northern peatlands

Chris Stringer (2020)
Proglacial landscape evolution across the Antarctic Peninsula with Holocene climate change

Isobel LLoyd (2020)
Measuring and modelling greenhouse gas fluxes between agricultural soils and the atmosphere

Elizabeth Townsend (2020)
Sedimentation and invasive species in rivers: Investigation in trialling of mitigation options relevant to invasive non-native species sediment inputs to rivers

AJ (Anne) Sietsma (2019)
Tracking adaptation to climate change using big data

Rebecca Banbury Morgan (2019)
Constraining the carbon balance of intact tropical forest landscapes

Richard Fewster (2019)
Past, present and future of permafrost peatlands

School of Earth and Environment

Aastha (2023)
Structural controls on geothermal systems in Northern Volcanic Zone, Iceland

Abigail Buchan (2023)
Climate extremes in a warmer world: what can the Pliocene tell us?

Lauren Geiser (2023)
Exploring the growth of deep-sea bivalves in areas of potential seafloor mining

Ankitha Manohar (2023)
Systems approach for establishing climate smart aquaculture to balance biodiversity conservation and food security in coral reef systems

Will Osborne (2023)
Fluid-rock interaction in the deepest part of the oceanic crust: Insights from the newly-drilled International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 399.

Man kneeling on the ground planting saplings

Alejandro Romero Prieto (2023)
Efficient Emulation of Earth System Processes for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

Daniel Startin (2023)
Worms v sediment: the rise of burrowing and oxygen levels in the early Palaeozoic

James Bassford (2022)
Scale interactions of tropical deep convection: Storms, waves, and circulation

Felipe Gallardo Ceron (2022)
Simulating groundwater flow and contaminant migration in heterogeneous alluvial sediments

Meghan Jenkinson (2022)
Regional investigation of extinction-recovery patterns during the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) hyperthermal event

Weronika Osmolska (2022)
The nature of cold air outbreaks in a changing climate in Europe.

Naomi Shakespeare-Rees (2022)
Flows and forecasts: investigating the geomagnetic field using machine learning

Imogen Wadlow (2022)Evaluating Arctic Accumulation-Mode Aerosols in UKESM

Ezri Alkilani-Brown (2023)
Exploiting machine-learning to provide a dynamical, microphysical, radiative and electrifying insight from observations of deep convective cloud

Eliot Eaton (2023)
Combining magma flow models and deformation measurements to understand magma ascent at silicic volcanoes

Saffron Heddell (2023)
Atmospheric impacts from the water-rich Hunga-Tonga large-magnitude eruption

Jonathan Matchett (2023)
Rotten rocks at the heart of black smoker systems

Léa Prévost (2023)
Novel approaches to observationally constrain aerosol effects in climate models

Patrick Sharrocks (2023)
Processes beneath the Great Wave: improving our understanding of tsunami geohazards using advances in deep sea sedimentology.

Maria Velásquez (2023)
Novel satellite and modelling studies to assess wildfire emission impacts on air quality and climate

Lily Dickson (2022)
Controls on the high-grade gold-cobalt mineralisation at Rajapalot, Finland

Samuel Hodges (2022)
Applying the niche-model concept to insect aeroecology to predict insect dispersal events

Arundhati  Kalyan (2022)
Decadal modulation of El Niño–Southern Oscillation and its global impacts

Joseph Robinson (2022)
Aircraft measurement of ice nucleating particles relevant for mixed-phase clouds

Helen Thornhill (2022)
Post-glacial magma dynamics of the Mocho-Choshuenco Volcanic Complex, Southern Chile

Laura Wainman (2022)
Volcanic emissions of environmentally reactive trace elements

Olufemi Adesina (2021)
Agricultural Innovation and Biocontrol in sub-Saharan Africa

Eilish Brennan (2021)
Diverse sources of volatile release across volcanic arcs: Insights from Kozelsky and Khangar volcanoes, Kamchatka

Tasmin Fletcher (2021)
The contribution of native woodlands to UK’s net-zero climate targets

Mirsya Mulyani (2021)
Understanding the environmental risks posed by pollution from the digital economy

Amy Shipley (2021)
What were the trophic consequences of the extinction of the largest apex predator of all time?

Sally Wilson (2021)
Ice speed & Artificial Intelligence (AI): Using satellite data and advanced computer techniques to detect ice sheet change

Lauren Burton (2020)
Paelaeo Constraints on the 1.5°C World: What does the Pliocene tell us about the long-terms effects of atmospheric CO2 at ~400 ppmv

Jonathan Coney (2020)
Use of Artificial Intelligence to understand mountain weather and climate processes

Rachel Dobson (2020)
Integrating climate and species modelling to predict movements of migratory and nomadic birds in sub-Saharan Africa

Chiara Krewer (2020)
A Phosphorus Control on Oceanic Anoxic Events under Greenhouse Climates?

Benjamin Wallis (2020)
Change in the ice speed and mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, from Earth Observation satellite data

Eva Zand (2020)
Using high resolution SAR imagery for volcano monitoring

Alice Blackwell (2021)
Seismicity and Structure of Subducting Slabs

William Evans (2021)
BioDAR: Using Weather Radars and Machine Learning to Examine Insectageddon

Hazel Mooney (2021)
Exploring the climate side effects and co-benefits of an expansion to UK forests

Erin Raif (2021)
The formation of ice in clouds and the impact on climate

Brooke Snoll (2021)
Abrupt climate and sea level change

Weiyu Zhang (2021)
Non-CO2 effects of aviation on climate

Manon Carpenter (2020)
How and why is deformation localised in continental crust?

Elena Curtis (2020)
Mantle plumes, xenoliths and melt inclusions – heterogeneous deep mantle sources or shallow melt-rock interaction?

Amethyst Johnson (2020)
Investigating boundary layer processes in tropical cyclones in the Met Office operational forecasting model

Daniel Matthews (2020)
Impact of karstic flow on Chalk aquifer function and water quality

Shane Webb (2020)
Developing a metallogenic model for Caledonian mineralisation around Loch Tay, Scotland 

Ronan Agnew (2019)
Deep, dark and dynamic: Converted-wave seismology to explore the physical properties of Antarctic glacier ice  

Lena Chen (2019)
Marine Micronutrient Cycling between Sediments and Seawater: What controls the concentration and isotopic composition of micronutrient trace metals in the global oceans?

Francesca Morris (2019)
The Understanding and Prediction of High Impact Weather in the Gulf of Guinea

Matilda Pimlott (2019)
Investigating long-term changes in European air quality in the satellite era 

Yvan Rome (2019)
The ice age, oceans and climate: triggers of iceberg calving and rapid temperature change

Lena Strauß (2019)
People, forest use and biodiversity on islands: models for global sustainability

Felix Boschetty (2019)
The dynamics of magma storage and ascent beneath an active arc volcano (Villarrica, Chile)

Leon King (2019)
Measuring the elusive particles that form ice in clouds

Sara Osman (2019)
Assessing the risk of roof collapse in response to loading from volcanic ash with relevance to Ascension Island

Frances Procter (2019)
Finding your flow: using sedimentology, geochemistry and micropalaeontology to understand South Atlantic Ocean circulation

Stephanie Shahrzad (2019)
Martian volcanic systems: using surface strain indicators to investigate magmatically driven stress in the Tharis region of Mars  

Paloma Trascasa (2019)
Modulation of El Niño Southern Oscillation and its impacts by the mean climate state  

School of Mathematics

Gregory Dritschel (2022)

Paul Pruzina (2019)
Staircase Formation in Fluid Dynamical Systems

Matthew Threadgold (2020)
Pattern formation in dry lakes   s


University of York

Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories

Lidia Alfanti (2023)

Implications for air quality from net-zero policies and pathways in the UK.

Lyndsey Ives (2023)

Measurements of ozone-depleting substances at the Cape Verde Observatory.

Ruth Winkless (2023)
Photolysis reaction mechanisms by emerging technologies

Charlotte Stapleton (2022)

Development of fast ozone detectors for measurement of ozone fluxes from ship and airborne platforms

Athina Ruangkanit (2021)
CINDAER: Composition of indoor aerosols and their role in air quality

Sera Arthur-Hastie (she/her) (2020)
Developing new laser-based instruments to characterise optical properties or aerosol particles for road traffic

Abdulla Moussa (2020)
Understanding the changing sources of VOCs in the UK over the last two decades and implication in the future

Alfred Mayhew (2019)
Does nighttime chemistry of isoprene impact air quality in polluted environments?

Rebecca Wagner (2019)
Beyond NOx – future air pollution impacts of road vehicles

Eve Grant (2023)
Improving our understanding of the atmospheric sulfur cycle and its impact on air pollution and climate

Carys Williams (2023)

Direct measurements of NOx emissions in central London: How are they changing and how can they be used to inform government policy?

Amy Lees (2022)

Understanding chlorine chemistry in clean and polluted atmospheres

Rhianna Evans (2021)
Understanding the atmospheric chemistry of biomass burning emissions and their impact on air quality and climate

Jake Vallow (2021)
Nitrogen oxides in remote tropical ocean environments and their impact on air pollution and climate

Samuel Cliff (2020)
Measurements of urban emissions of NOx and volatile organic compounds

Loren Temple (2020)
Understanding the Impact of Trace Level Sulfur Dioxide on Air Pollution and Climate

Dominika Pasternak (2019)
Investigating local and regional air pollution from shipping