Students
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.
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)
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Frederica Poznansky
Background: BSc Environmental Sciences; MRes Tropical Forest Ecology.
PhD Research: Soundscapes in Tropical Landscapes.
Cohort: 2 (2020)
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)
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)
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)
Manju Bura
Background: BSc Biomedical Sciences; MSc Climate Change Science and Policy.
Cohort: 3 (2021)
Owain Harris
Background: MPhys Physics.
Cohort: 3 (2021)
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)
Joshua Redmond
Background: BSc Politics.
PhD Research: Participatory Design for Human Rights Monitoring using Earth Observation Data.
Cohort: 1 (2019)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Margaret Bolton
Background: BSc Ecology; MSc Applied Ecology.
PhD Research: Inter-comparability and consistency of ecological fitness proxies across populations.
Cohort: 1 (2019)
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)
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)
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)
Emma Bailey
Background: MMath in Mathematics.
PhD Research: Tipping Sustainable Change: Social Dynamics and Contagion.
Cohort: 2 (2020)
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Thomas Hogger-Gadsby
Background: BA Philosophy; MA Philosophy.
Cohort: 3 (2021)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Nathanael Sheehan
Background: BSc Computer Scienceand Mandarin; MSc Smart Cities and Urban Analytics
Cohort: 3 (2021)
