Students
Ellie Duncan
Background: BSc Mathematics; MSc Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate.
PhD Research: Untangling natural aerosol processes in Polar Regions by implementing novel machine learning techniques.
Cohort: 1 (2019)
Supervisors: Daniel Partridge, Jonathan Fieldsend, Jim Haywood and Alistair Sellar.
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Frederica Poznansky
Background: BSc Environmental Sciences; MRes Tropical Forest Ecology.
PhD Research: Soundscapes in Tropical Landscapes.
Cohort: 2 (2020)
Supervisors: Frank Van Veen and Saptarshi Das.
Trish Nowak
Background: BSc Physical Geography; MSc Ocenaography (Physical, Biological and Ecological).
PhD Research: Entangling curious reasons for long-range travels of coarse dust particles in lower atmosphere and their impacts on climate, environment and human life.
Cohort: 2 (2020)
Supervisors: Benno Simmons, Stefan Siegert and Andy Augousti (External).
Alice Wells
Background: MMath Mathematics.
PhD Research: Using effusive and explosive volcanic eruptions as natural analogues for solar radiation management strategies and assessing the public opinion of geoengineering.
Cohort: 1 (2019)
Supervisors: Jim Haywood, James Dyke and Daniel Partridge.
Timothy Lam
Background: BSc Earth Sciences; MSc Climate Change and Sustainable Development.
PhD Research: Quantifying teleconnection pathways leading to Droughts and Wildfires in Indonesian Borneo.
Cohort: 1 (2019)
Supervisors: Jennifer Catto, anna Harper and Rosa Barciela.
Manju Bura
Background: BSc Biomedical Sciences; MSc Climate Change Science and Policy.
Cohort: 3 (2021)
Owain Harris
Background: MPhys Physics.
Cohort: 3 (2021)
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Thomas Hogger-Gadsby
Background: BA Philosophy; MA Philosophy.
Cohort: 3 (2021)
Joshua Redmond
Background: BSc Politics.
PhD Research: Participatory Design for Human Rights Monitoring using Earth Observation Data.
Cohort: 1 (2019)
Supervisors: Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, Hugo Barbosa and Ana Beduschi.
Jonathan Growcott
Background: MBiol Biological Sciences.
Cohort: 3 (2021)
Abhiraami Navaneethanathan
Background: MSci Physics with Theoretical Physics.
PhD Research: Developing ML and statistical models to study global particulate organic carbon fluxes through the data fusion of sparse, heterogeneous and in-situ oceanographic observations.
Cohort: 2 (2020)
Supervisors: Chundo Luo, Peter Challenor and Sabina Leonelli.
Benjamin Fitkov-Norris
Background: BA Biological Sciences.
Cohort: 3 (2021)
Elizabeth Galloway
Background: MSci Natural Sciences.
PhD Research: Modelling the impacts of tropical storms in the Philippines using statistical and machine learning approaches.
Cohort: 2 (2020)
Supervisors: Jennifer Catto and Luo Chunbo.
Guy Lomax
Background: BA and MSci Natural Sciences (Geology); MSc Sustianable Energy Futures.
PhD Research: Measuring and managing rangeland resilience with remote sensing.
Cohort: 1 (2019)
Supervisors: Tom Powell, Tim Lenton, Andrew Cuncliffe and Theo Economou.
Jake Curry
Background: BSc Zoology; MRes Computational Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
PhD Research: Bringing ‘Big Data’ to conservation; applying computer vision techniques to automate detection and classification in camera trap image data.
Cohort: 3 (2021)
Nicola Wilson
Background: BSc Geography with Oceanography; MSc Water and Coastal Management.
PhD Research: How can digital technologies help upscale and finance blue carbon?
Cohort: 2 (2020)
Supervisors: Chris Lang, Bob Brewin, Rudy Arthur and Sarah Hartley.
Cesar Angeles Ruiz
Background: BSc Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering; MSc Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology.
Cohort: 3 (2021)
Ellie Fox
Background: BA Geography.
Cohort: 3 (2021)
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Ian Burton
Background: LLB Law and Criminology; MA Politics and Contemporary History.
PhD Research: The impact of innovation and technology diffusion decarbonisation policy packages on the global economy-energy-environment system.
Cohort: 2 (2020)
Supervisors: Jean Francois Mercure, Femke Nijsse and Sarah Hartley.
Margaret Bolton
Background: BSc Ecology; MSc Applied Ecology.
PhD Research: Inter-comparability and consistency of ecological fitness proxies across populations.
Cohort: 1 (2019)
Supervisors: Regan Early, Sabina Leonelli and Bram Kuijper.
Arthur Vandervoort
Background: BA International Relations.
PhD Research: In the wake of disaster: analysing gendered mobility patterns by leveraging mobile phone data, data feminism, and justice.
Cohort: 1 (2019)
Supervisors: Sabina Leonelli, Karyn Morrissey and Riccardo di Clemente.
Emily Robinson
Background: BSc Marine Environmental Science; MRes Geochemistry.
Cohort: 3 (2021)
Monty Sant
Background: MChem Chemistry.
PhD Research: Ocean abosorption and storage of anthropogenic carbon.
Cohort: 2 (2020)
Supervisors: Andrew Watson and Peter Challenor.
Liam Berrisford
Background: BSc Computer Science. Professional experience as a Software Engineer in Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Counter Terrorism and Security Division).
PhD Research: The structure and dynamics of future transport infrastructure.
Cohort: 1 (2019)
Supervisors: Ronaldo Menezes, Hugo Barbosa and Rocardo Safra de Campos.
Emma Bailey
Background: MMath in Mathematics.
PhD Research: Tipping Sustainable Change: Social Dynamics and Contagion.
Cohort: 2 (2020)
Supervisors: Tim Lenton, Hywel Williams and Catherine Butler.
Sara Sjosten
Background: BA Natural Sciences; MSc Geological Sciences.
PhD Research: How can drastic changes in the Earth system in deep time help us understand how current ecosystems may respond to further human perturbation? How much more human disturbance can ecosystems tolerate before they collapse?
Cohort: 2 (2020)
Supervisors: Tim Lenton and Peter Roopnarine (External).
Chris Kerry
Background: BSc Physical Geography, MSc Biodiversity and Conservation.
PhD Research: Enforcement, remote sensing, and data science for effective illegal fishing deterrence.
Cohort: 1 (2019)
Supervisors: Kristian Metcalfe, Saptarshi Das, Karyn Morrisey, Sam Webber and Tom Letessier.
Ned Westwood
Background: BA International Relations and Politics; MRes Politics.
PhD Research: Computer assisted classification of political narratives that impede and promote action on climate change.
Cohort: 1 (2019)
Supervisors: Travis Coan, Hywel Williams and Saffrom O'Neil.
Kevin Donkers
Background: MSci Chemical Physics.
PhD Research: Can agroforestry be utilised at scale to meet climate adaptation and mitigation needs of UK agriculture?
Cohort: 2 (2020)
Supervisors: Brett Day and Danny Williamson.
Daneen Cowling
Background: BSc Geography; MSc by Research Geography.
PhD Research: Enhanced erosion and the land-ocean continuum: Assessing the biogeochemical responses to vulnerable landscapes.
Cohort: 2 (2020)
Supervisors: Tim Lenton, Ute Schuster and Jacqueline Christmas.
Nathanael Sheehan
Background: BSc Computer Scienceand Mandarin; MSc Smart Cities and Urban Analytics
Cohort: 3 (2021)
Ceren Barlas
Cohort: 4 (2022)
Zihao Chen
Cohort: 4 (2022)
Alex Edwards
Cohort: 4 (2022)
Rhiannon Grant
Cohort: 4 (2022)
Morgan Sparey
Cohort: 4 (2022)
Ashish Sundar
Cohort: 4 (2022)
Paul Bell
Cohort: 4 (2022)
Our students are recruited to the CDT from a range of academic and professional backgrounds. Scroll through their profiles to find out about them and their Environmental Intelligence research.
Cohort 1 (2019)
| Student | PhD Research | Supervisors |
| Liam Berrisford | 'The structure and dynamics of future transport infrastructure.' | Ronaldo Menezes, Hugo Barbosa and Rocardo Safra de Campos |
| Margaret Bolton | 'Inter-comparability and consistency of ecological fitness proxies across populations.' | Regan Early, Sabina Leonelli and Bram Kuijper |
| Ellie Duncan | 'Untangling natural aerosol processes in Polar Regions by implementing novel machine learning techniques.' | Daniel Partridge, Jonathan Fieldsend, Jim Haywood and Alistair Sellar |
| Chris Kerry | 'Enforcement, remote sensing, and data science for effective illegal fishing deterrence.' | Kristian Melcalfe, Saptarshi Das, Karyn Morrisey, Sam Webber and Tom Letessier |
| Timothy Lam | 'Quantifying teleconnection pathways leading to Droughts and Wildfires in Indonesian Borneo.' | Jennifer Catto, Anna Harper and Rosa Barciela |
| Guy Lomax | 'Measuring and managing rangeland resilience with remote sensing.' | Tom Powell, Tim Lenton, Andrew Cuncliffe and Theo Economou |
| Joshua Redmond | 'Participatory Design for Human Rights Monitoring using Earth Observation Data.' | Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, Hugo Barbosa and Ana Beduschi |
| Arthur Vandervoort | 'In the wake of disaster: analysing gendered mobility patterns by leveraging mobile phone data, data feminism, and justice.' | Sabina Leonelli, Karyn Morrissey and Riccardo di Clemente |
| Alice Florence Wells | 'Using effusive and explosive volcanic eruptions as natural analogues for solar radiation management strategies and assessing the public opinion of geoengineering.' | Jim Haywood, James Dyke and Daniel Partridge |
| Ned Westwood | 'Computer assisted classification of political narratives that impede and promote action on climate change.' | Travis Coan, Hywel Williams and Saffrom O'Neil |
Cohort 2 (2020)
| Student | PhD Research | Supervisors |
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Emma Bailey |
'Tipping Sustainable Change: Social Dynamics and Contagion.' | Tim Lenton, Hywel Williams and Catherine Butler |
| Ian Burton | 'The impact of innovation and technology diffusion decarbonisation policy packages on the global economy-energy-environment system.' | Jean Francois Mercure, Femke Nijsse and Sarah Hartley |
| Daneen Cowling | 'Enhanced erosion and the land-ocean continuum: Assessing the biogeochemical responses to vulnerable landscapes.' | Tim Lenton, Ute Schuster and Jacqueline Christmas |
| Kevin Donkers | 'Can agroforestry be utilised at scale to meet climate adaptation and mitigation needs of UK agriculture?' | Brett Day and Danny Williamson |
| Elizabeth Galloway | 'Modelling the impacts of tropical storms in the Philippines using statistical and machine learning approaches.' | Jennifer Catto and Chunbo Luo |
| Abhi Navaneethanathan | 'Developing ML and statistical models to study global particulate organic carbon fluxes through the data fusion of sparse, heterogeneous and in-situ oceanographic observations.' | Chunbo Luo, Peter Channenor and Sabina Leonelli |
| Trish Nowak | 'Entangling curious reasons for long-range travels of coarse dust particles in lower atmosphere and their impacts on climate, environment and human life.' | Benno Simmons, Stefan Siegert and Andy Augousti (External) |
| Frederica Poznansky | 'Soundscapes in Tropical Landscapes.' | Frank Van Veen and Saptarshi Das |
| Monty Sant | 'Ocean abosorption and storage of anthropogenic carbon.' | Andrew Watson and Peter Challenor |
| Sara Sjosten |
'How can drastic changes in the Earth system in deep time help us understand how current ecosystems may respond to further human perturbation? How much more human disturbance can ecosystems tolerate before they collapse?' |
Tim Lenton and Peter Roopnarine (External) |
| Nicola Wilson | 'How can digital technologies help upscale and finance blue carbon?' | Chris Laing, Bob Brewin, Rudy Arthur and Sarah Hartley |
Cohort 3 (2021)
| Student | PhD Research | Supervisors |
| Cesar Angeles Ruiz | TBC | |
| Manju Bura | TBC | |
| Jake Curry | TBC | |
| Ben Fitkov-Norris | TBC | |
| Ellie Fox | TBC | |
| Jonathan Growcott | TBC | |
| Owain Harris | TBC | |
| Tom Hogger Gadsby | TBC | |
| Emily Robinson | TBC | |
| Nathanael Sheehan | TBC |