Meet the team
Geography and Environmental Science Staff
Academic Staff
Name |
Position |
Telephone |
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Dr Yaw Adjei-Amoako | Teaching Fellow in Human Geography |
+44 (0)118 378 3263 |
yaw.adjei-amoako@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Stuart Black |
Associate Professor in Environmental Radioactivity School Director for Teaching and Learning |
+44 (0)118 378 8646 |
s.black@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Nicholas Branch | Professor in Palaeoecology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 3266 |
n.p.branch@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Joanna Clark | Professor in Environmental Science |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6581 |
j.m.clark@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Hannah Cloke | Professor in Hydrology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6974 |
h.l.cloke@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Chris Collins | Professor of Environmental Chemistry |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8910 |
c.d.collins@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Sylvie Dubuc | Lecturer in Human Geography & Population Studies |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8657 |
s.dubuc@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Ruth Evans | Professor in Human Geography |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7755 |
r.evans@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Rob Fry | Teaching Fellow in Geographical Information Systems |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7972 |
r.j.fry@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Hilary Geoghegan | Professor of Geography |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8915 |
h.geoghegan@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Mike Goodman | Professor of Geography(Environment and Development) |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7686 |
m.k.goodman@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Thomas Grisaffi | Lecturer in Human Geography (Environment and Development) |
+44 (0)118 378 7496 |
t.grisaffi@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Sandy Harrison | Professor in Global Palaeoclimates and Biogeochemical Cycles |
+ 44 (0)118 378 5258 |
s.p.harrison@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Alan Howard | Professor in Computational Geography |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8763 |
a.howard@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Sally Lloyd-Evans |
Associate Professor in Human Geography Deputy Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science |
+ 44 (0)118 378 5293 |
s.lloyd-evans@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Alison MacLeod |
Associate Professor in Physical Geography Deputy School Director for Teaching and Learning |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7909 |
alison.macleod@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Avril Maddrell | Professor in Human Geography |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7756 |
avril.maddrell@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Frank Mayle | Professor in Tropical Palaeoecology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6260 |
f.mayle@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Hazel McGoff |
Lecturer in Environmental Science School Director of Academic Tutoring |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6743 |
h.j.mcgoff@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Filippo Menga | Associate Professor in Human Geography |
+44 (0)118 378 7766 |
f.menga@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Steven Musson |
Professor of Geography Head of School |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6042 |
s.musson@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Jess Neumann | Lecturer in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) |
+ 44 (0) 118 378 8912 |
j.l.neumann@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Steve Robinson | Associate Professor in Soil and Water Biogeochemistry |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6075 |
j.s.robinson@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Shovonlal Roy | Associate Professor |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8944 |
shovonlal.roy@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Eirini Saratsi |
Teaching Fellow in Human Geography - Environment and Development |
+44 (0)118 378 6559 |
e.saratsi@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Maria Shahgedanova | Professor in Climate Science |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7745 |
m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Liz Shaw | Professor of Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6971 |
e.j.shaw@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Mike Simmonds | Lecturer in Physical Geography |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8853 |
m.j.simmonds@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Tom Sizmur | Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8913 |
t.sizmur@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Elisabeth Stephens | Associate Professor |
+44 (0)118 378 7586 |
elisabeth.stephens@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Anne Verhoef | Professor of Soil Physics and Micrometeorology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6074 |
a.verhoef@reading.ac.uk |
Professor Andrew Wade |
Professor of Hydrology Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7315 |
a.j.wade@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Kevin White | Associate Professor in Environmental Remote Sensing |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7752 |
k.h.white@reading.ac.u |
Dr Hong Yang | Associate Professor in Environmental Science |
+44 (0)118 378 7750 |
h.yang4@reading.ac.uk |
Research Staff
Name |
Position |
Telephone |
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Dr Heou Maleki Badjana | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Hydrological Modelling |
+44 (0)118 378 3264 |
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Joanne Beales | Landwise Research Project Administrator |
+44 (0)118 378 3289 |
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Dr Laia Comas-Bru | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Palaeohydrological Data Analysis | +44 (0)118 378 7146 | |
Sarah Duddigan | Research and Teaching Fellow |
+44 (0)118 378 8970 |
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Sonia Duval | Community Administrator, Whitley for Real Project |
+44 (0)118 378 3271 |
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Dr Andrea Ficchi | Postdoctoral Research Assistant- Extended-range Flood Forecast Researcher |
+44 (0)118 378 3274 |
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Dr Danielle House | Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
+44 (0)118 378 3275 |
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Dr Paul Lincoln | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Palaeofire | p.lincoln@reading.ac.uk | |
Dr Will Maslanka | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Remote sensing |
+44 (0) 118 378 7285 |
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Senior Research Fellow |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8740 |
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Dr Pablo Paiewonsky | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Palaeoclimate Analysis |
+44 (0)118 378 7226 |
p.paiewonsky@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Harry Pettit | David Robins Research Fellow in Urban Geography | h.g.pettit@reading.ac.uk | |
Dr Anne Quillet | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Palaeovegetation Modelling |
+44 (0)118 378 3265 |
anne.quillet@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Marco Raczka | Postdoctoral Research Associate in Amazon Palaeoecology | m.f.raczka@reading.ac.uk | |
Dr Xin Shu | Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Soil Biogeochemistry |
+44 (0)118 378 7896 |
x.shu@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Linda Speight | Postdoctoral Research Assistant Applied Flood Forecasting |
+44 (0)118 378 3291 |
l.j.speight@reading.ac.uk |
Gerard Stewart | Communications Co-ordinator |
+44 (0)118 378 7902 |
g.w.stewart@reading.ac.uk |
Joyce Ternenge | Project Officer |
+44 (0)118 378 3268 |
j.d.ternenge@reading.ac.uk |
Roberto Villegas-Diaz | Scientific Programmer and Data Manager | r.villegas-diaz@reading.ac.uk | |
Dr Vadim Yapiev | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
+44 (0) 118 378 3285 |
vadim.yapiyev@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Lorna Zischka | Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Whitely for Real Project |
+44 (0) 118 378 3286 |
lorna.zischka@reading.ac.uk |
Postgraduate Research Students
See a list of PGR Alumni for Geography and Environmental Science, here.
Name |
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Project |
Selam Abebe | a.f.aldhafeeri@pgr.reading.ac.uk | The Role of the Compliance Mechanism of the Paris Agreement in achieving Equity and Climate Justice. |
Adetunji Alex Adekanmbi | a.a.adekanmbi@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Impact of climate change on soil respiration and resilience. |
Phillip Agredazywczuck | p.a.agredazywczuk@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Geochemical constraints on the hydrological restoration of groundwater-dependent wetlands in lowland catchments. |
Henry Akinola | h.akinola@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Participatory Approach to Research Air Quality in Lagos State, Nigeria. |
Zainab Aliyu | z.o.aliyu@pgr.reading.ac.uk | How effective is the Climate Justice Movement (CJM) in sub-Saharan Africa? |
Dedy Antony | d.antony@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Factors affecting soil carbon storage at depth in agricultural systems in the UK. |
Maureen Wanzala | m.a.wanzala@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Understanding the Mechanisms of Flood Modelling and Forecasting of Historical Events to Inform Flood Early Warning in Kenya. |
Edward Baker | e.j.baker@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Developing soil health indicators to inform land management decisions and increase crop yield and quality. |
Ellie Barbrook | e.barbrook@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Optimizing soil nitrogen (N) in babyleaf salad crops for sustainable crop production. |
Selma Benyovszky | s.benyovszky@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Water-energy nexus in Algeria: the government water discourse and the role of the hydrocarbon sector. |
James Bishop | j.t.bishop@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Quantifying the effectiveness of natural flood management in lowland catchments. |
Nicole Bradshaw | n.bradshaw@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Development of new analytical techniques for fingerprinting organic compounds in Archaeological, Chemical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences. |
Chloe Brimicombe | c.r.brimicombe@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Pan-African Heatwave Health Hazard Forecasting. |
Michelle Brooks | m.m.s.brooks@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Tiger on the bank; Crocodile in the water: Narratives on Terrorism and Diaspora among Bangladeshi Women in London. |
Merry Crowson | m.r.d.crowson@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Capitalising on the Big Data era: establishing a multi-source monitoring framework for England's natural capital assets and flows. |
Esmeralda Cruz-Silva | e.cruz-silva@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Pollen-based reconstructions of the vegetation and climate of the circum-Mediterranean region during the Holocene. |
Siobhan Dolan | s.dolan@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Early warning of flash flood and landslide risk in S Asia |
Srujana Donthula | s.donthula@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Novel physical and numerical methods for simulating water and heat transfer in land surface models. |
Baktybek Duisebek | b.duisebek@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Climate change, water resource and agriculture in Kazakhstan. |
Idegbe Ebereonwu | i.i.ebereonwu@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Strategic Environmental Assessment in Nigeria's Energy Sector. |
Exploring the Role of Citizen Science for advances in Urban Soil Management and Inspiring Sustainable Action. | ||
Jessica Goodenough | j.l.goodenough@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Citizen science in the global South: effects on participation in urban agriculture in Rio de Janeiro's informal settlements. |
Helen Griffith | h.v.griffith@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Atmospheric rivers and the land surface - drivers of extreme floods. |
Elaine Halliday | e.halliday@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Evaluating the impact of woodland management and drinking water abstraction on groundwater fed wetlands. |
Charlotte Hawkins | c.e.hawkins@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Developing optical methods for catchment to protect drinking water. |
Lottie Hawkins | charlotte.hawkins@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Exploring the role of biochar to increase the sustainability of UK farming businesses. |
James Hill | james.hill@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Millennial-style history of Amazon Forest dynamics. |
Joseph Hirst | j.hirst@pgr.reading.ac.uk | The domestication of Amazon rainforests by pre-Columbian societies. |
Md. Sazzad Hossain | mdsazzad.hossain@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Extended range hydrometeorological forecasting for improved flood early warning in Bangladesh to supporting earlier flood preparedness in Bangladesh. |
Mohammad Badsha Hossain | mohammadbadsha.hossain@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Family planning in Bangladesh: implementation and health impact. |
Madison Johnson | m.c.johnson@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Safeguarding non-human heritage in the Anthropocene: an investigation of enthusiasm for rare heavy horse breeds. |
David Kesner | d.kesner@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Understanding vegetation response to fire during glacial and interglacial states. |
Prakash Khanal | p.khanal@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Lives and Livelihood Experiences of Transnational Nepali Migrants in the UK. |
Karolina Krupska | k.u.krupska@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Forecasting floods from intense rainfall and predicting their impact on bathing waters. |
Clare Lewis | clare.lewis@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Meteosunamis in a changing climate: the future of coastal vulnerability and resilience. |
Sabine Mayeux |
Food Justice in the City: Austerity, Citizenship and Creative Urban Space. | |
Get your water out of my lounge: Understanding institutional constructions and public perceptions of flooding and flood risk management. | ||
Faith Mitheu | f.k.mitheu@pgr.reading.ac.uk | A model for impact-based flood early warning in Uganda. |
Diego Molina Franco | d.a.molinafranco@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Floristic miscegenation in the citizen's bodies and the urban landscape in Colombia. |
Alice Mpofu-Coles | a.mpofu-coles@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Identity, Transnationalism and Resilience Among the Young Zimbabwean Diaspora in UK. |
Camilla Negri | c.negri@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Developing Risk-Based Approaches to Modelling Phosphorus Contamination in Agricultural Catchments. |
Anastasia Ngenyi | a.ngenyi@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Land-use planning, alternative livelihood and current approach to biodiversity conservation in the Congo Basin, Central Africa. |
Chinonso Ogbuagu | chinonsochukwuma.ogbuagu@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Remediation of contaminated field soils using biochar |
Joy Ommer | j.ommer@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Reducing risk to hydrological extremes with Nature-based Solutions. |
Henny Omosigho | h.omosigho@pgr.reading.ac.uk | How do earthworms and soil microbial communities interact to determine the fate of organic matter amendments to soil? |
Daisy O'Neill | d.oneill@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Predicting the ecological and societal impacts of species on the move with climate change in the UK. |
Omofolawe Otun | o.r.otun@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Recovery of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) from e-waste dump sites in West Africa. |
Sarah Parker | s.parker@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Reconstruction of monsoon dynamics during the late Quaternary using speleothem data and model simulations. |
Roweena Patel | r.patel@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Energy transfer in marine ecosystems based on phytoplankton size structure from satellite remote sensing. |
Ayla Paul | a.paul@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Provenance, governance, and traceability of UK honey: combining stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry, trace element analysis and pollen identification. |
Fatima Pillosu | f.m.pillosu@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Statistical analysis of ECMWF Ensemble to improve rainfall inputs in real-time flood forecasting systems. |
Jessica Ponting | jessica.ponting@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Impact of extreme rainfall events on the mobility of potentially toxic elements in floodplains. |
Gabrielle Powell | g.b.powell@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Evaluating the multiple functions of woodlands for natural flood management (NFM). |
Shahrina Rahman | s.rahman@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Enhancing social resilience and adaptation to climate change: a case study of disabled people in Southern Bangladesh. |
David Richardson | d.s.richardson@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Verification and diagnostics of ensemble-based earth-system models. |
William Rickard | w.rickard@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Productive Agriculture Needs Tools for Sustainability. |
Victoria Robinson | v.a.robinson@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Using in-situ portable detection systems for the imporvement in identification and mapping of buried bone deposits. |
Susan Rodgers | susan.rodgers@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Can Vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides), a tropic grass, be a viable cost-effective solution for Diffuse Water Pollution in the UK? |
Zarina Saidaliyeva | z.saidaliyeva@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Assessment of snow, glacier and permafrost melt contributions to runoff in the Tien Shan using isotopic analysis. |
Precarious lifescapes and informality: a gendered and generational analysis of young informal workers in urban Tanzania. | ||
George Sawyer | g.sawyer@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Do cover crops increase the resilience and sustainability of the agri-food system? |
Victoria Shannon (NeƩ Struthers) |
v.l.struthers@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Exploring the role of deadwood in the forest carbon cycle. |
Raeannon Sinclair | r.m.sinclair@pgr.reading.ac.uk | River Macrophyte Succession Under Multiple Stresses. |
Saule Suleimenova | s.suleimenova@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Adaptation of Water Use in Agriculture to Climate Change in South-eastern Kazakhstan. |
Luke Sweeney | l.sweeney@pgr.reading.ac.uk | The Impact of Anthropogenic Land-use Changes on Fire Regimes During the Holocene. |
Olumayowa Philip Taiwo | o.p.taiwo@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Forecasting the influence of climate change on harmful algal growth through biogeochemical modelling. |
Daniel Teeling | d.l.a.teeling@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Quantifying responses to abrupt climate change in the Andes, South America: empirical data and model synergies. |
Sofia Theofanidi | sofia.theofanidi@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Improving and evaluating flood forecasting models for improved flood resilience from local to global scales. |
Sarah Thoma |
Examining the relationship between environmental and societal change during the past 1000 years. | |
Patrick Thomson |
Health impacts of intermittent water supply in rural Africa. | |
Rachael Thornley | r.h.thornley@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Using Sentinel satellite remote sensing data to monitor the state of grasslands across a range of management intensities. |
Helen Titley | h.a.titley@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Global flood predictability, early warning and the communication of probabilistic forecasts. |
Jamie Towner | j.towner@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Climate variability and extended-range flood forecasting for the Peruvian Amazon. |
Mark Turner | m.g.turner@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Rapid climate change in the last glacial period: the evidence from pollen records. |
Oliver Wilson | oliver.wilson@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Assessing the resilience of Brazil's iconic Araucaria forests to past and future climate change. |
Robyn Woronka | r.woronka@pgr.reading.ac.uk | A geographical 'sense of place' can be reflected in a film, but does it consider the audience's perception of the place and the reality for the local community? |
Ervin Zsoter |
Understanding global flood hazard climatology for improved early flood warning. |
Emeritus, Honorary and Visiting Staff
Name |
Position |
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Professor Brian Alloway |
Emeritus Professor |
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Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Brian Goodall |
Emeritus Professor |
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Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Richard Skeffington | Emeritus Professor | r.a.skeffington@reading.ac.uk |
Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Alan Wild |
Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Peter Worsley |
Emeritus Professor |
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Professor Paul Bardos |
Visiting Professor |
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Professor Simon Dadson | Visiting Professor | |
Professor Penny Hirsch | Visiting Professor | |
Professor Jane McCarthy | Visiting Professor | |
Professor Andy Moffat |
Visiting Professor |
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Professor Margaret Oliver | Visiting Professor | |
Visiting Research fellow |
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Dr Macarena Cardenas | Visiting Research Fellow | |
Dr James Ormond |
Visiting Research Fellow |
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