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Academic staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Dr Yaw Adjei-Amoako Lecturer in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 3263 yaw.adjei-amoako@reading.ac.uk
Dr Stuart Black

Associate Professor in Environmental Radioactivity

School Director of Laboratories and Field Equipment

+44 (0)118 378 8646 s.black@reading.ac.uk
Dr Sophie Blackburn Lecturer in Human Geography   s.e.blackburn@reading.ac.uk
Professor Nicholas Branch

Professor in Palaeoecology

Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science (Job Share)

+44 (0)118 378 3266 n.p.branch@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 Jonathan Dale Lecturer in Physical Geography  +44 (0)118 378 4837 j.j.dale@reading.ac.uk
Dr Udeme Dickson Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry u.j.dickson@reading.ac.uk
Siobhan Dolan Lecturer in Physical Geography
   
Professor Ruth Evans Professor in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 7755 r.evans@reading.ac.uk
Dr Rob Fry Lecturer in Geographical Systems +44 (0)118 3787972 r.j.fry@reading.ac.uk
Professor Hilary Geoghegan

Professor of Geography

Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science (Job Share)

+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
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 of Geography and Higher Education +44 (0)118 378 8763 a.howard@reading.ac.uk
Dr Anna Jackman Lecturer in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 3934 a.h.jackman@reading.ac.uk
Dr Sally Lloyd-Evans Associate Professor in Human Geography +44 (0)118 3785293 s.lloyd-evans@reading.ac.uk
Dr Alison MacLeod

Associate Professor in Physical Geography

School Director of 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 Associate Professor in Environmental Science
School Director of Academic Tutoring
+44 (0)118 378 6743 h.j.mcgoff@reading.ac.uk
Professor Steven Musson

Professor of Geography
Head of School

+44 (0)118 3786042 s.musson@reading.ac.uk
Dr Jess Neumann Associate Professor +44(0) 118 378 8912 j.l.neumann@reading.ac.uk
Jim Ormond Lecturer in Corporate Social Responsibility   j.k.ormond@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
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 Nathan Salvidge

Lecturer in Human Geography

  nathan.salvidge@reading.ac.uk
Dr Mike Simmonds Senior Project Manager QUEST +44 (0)118 378 8853 m.j.simmonds@reading.ac.uk
Professor Tom Sizmur Professor in Environmental Chemistry +44 (0)118 378 8913 t.sizmur@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
+44 (0)118 378 7315 a.j.wade@reading.ac.uk
Professor Hong Yang Professor in Environmental Science +44 (0)118 378 7750 h.yang4@reading.ac.uk

Research staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Dr Trisha Bennett Community Liaison Officer   trisha.bennett@reading.ac.uk
Matthew Burrows Policy Communications Manager   m.j.burrows@reading.ac.uk 
Dr Blessing Chidimuro
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Isotope Ecology/Archaeology   b.chidimuro@reading.ac.uk
Dr Selva Dhandapani Postdoctoral Research Associate in Soil Biogeochemistry  +44 (0)118 378 4727 s.dhandapani@reading.ac.uk
Sonia Duval Community Administrator, Whitley for Real Project +44 (0)118 3783271 s.duval@reading.ac.uk
Helen Griffith Postdoctoral Research Assistant Global Floods Modeller   helen.griffith@reading.ac.uk
Dr Gavkhar Mamadjanova Research Fellow   g.mamadjanova@reading.ac.uk
Dr William Mills Postdoctoral Research Assistant   w.f.mills@reading.ac.uk
 Alice Mpofu-Coles Research Assistant   alice.mpofu-coles@reading.ac.uk
Dr Esther Oenga PDRA Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Geography & Environmental Science
  e.k.oenga@reading.ac.uk
Dr Marco Raczka Postdoctoral Research Associate in Amazon Palaeoecology m.f.raczka@reading.ac.uk
Paarbrahm Singh Research Assistant   p.p.singh@reading.ac.uk
Georgina Tang Research Assistant in Plant Dynamics and Migration   georgina.tang@reading.ac.uk
Joyce Ternenge Project Officer +44 (0)118 378 3268 j.d.ternenge@reading.ac.uk
Dr Gabriel Yesuf Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Environmental Modelling. g.yesuf@reading.ac.uk
Dr Lorna Zischka Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Whitley for Real Project +44 (0) 118 378 3286 lorna.zischka@reading.ac.uk

Postgraduate research students

Name Email Project
Phillip Agredazywczuk 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.
Paul Allen p.allen2@pgr.reading.ac.uk Reframing youth activism in a post pandemic community (with particular reference to the Whitley Young Researchers).
Ellie Barbrook e.barbrook@pgr.reading.ac.uk Optimizing soil nitrogen (N) in babyleaf salad crops for sustainable crop production.
Aslihan Benlioglu a.benlioglu@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Microplastic Pollution in Soil.

Selma Benyovszky s.benyovszky@pgr.reading.ac.uk Water-energy nexus in Algeria: the government water discourse and the role of the hydrocarbon sector.
Chloe Brimicombe c.r.brimicombe@pgr.reading.ac.uk Too Hot to Handle: The Global Impact of Extreme Heat.
Luci Corbett l.j.corbett@pgr.reading.ac.uk Acute Oak Decline (AOD): Detecting and understanding thresholds and feedback through soil microbial process indicators.
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.
Jeff Da Costa j.dacosta@pgr.reading.ac.uk The importance of nonlinearity in achieving climate resilience to hydrometeorological hazards.
Siobhan Dolan s.dolan@pgr.reading.ac.uk Landslide Early Warning Systems: A new approach to landslide EWS using global scale hydro-meteorological tools with a consideration of EWS introduction to post-colonial societies.
Nerea Ferrando n.ferrandojorge@pgr.reading.ac.uk Exploring the Role of Citizen Science for advances in Urban Soil Management and Inspiring Sustainable Action.
Elaine Halliday e.halliday@pgr.reading.ac.uk Evaluating the impact of woodland management and drinking water abstraction on groundwater fed wetlands.
Lottie Hawkins charlotte.hawkins@pgr.reading.ac.uk Exploring the role of biochar to increase the sustainability of UK farming businesses.
Joseph Hirst j.hirst@pgr.reading.ac.uk The domestication of Amazon rainforests by pre-Columbian societies.
Mohammad Badsha Hossain mohammadbadsha.hossain@pgr.reading.ac.uk Family planning in Bangladesh: implementation and health impact.
Sazzad Hossain mdsazzad.hossain@pgr.reading.ac.uk Extended-range hydro meteorological forecasting for improved flood early warning in Bangladesh.
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.
Theodore Keeping t.r.keeping@pgr.reading.ac.uk Nowcasting the Risk of Wildfire
David Kesner d.kesner@pgr.reading.ac.uk Understanding fire and vegetation feedbacks in response to environmental change during glacial and interglacial states.
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.
Hanqing Lin hanqing.lin@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Effect of heavy metals on carbon source utilization and DNA of soil microorganisms.
Sabine Mayeux s.mayeux@pgr.reading.ac.uk Food Justice in the City: Austerity, Citizenship and Creative Urban Space.
Gaia Mortier g.mortier@pgr.reading.ac.uk

A Day in the Lice: Recreating Past Human and Animal Life Histories Using Arthropod Ectoparasites in Museum and Archaeological Collections.

 Andra Serban a.serban@pgr.reading.ac.uk Evaluating the ability of human communities and environmental systems to adapt and recover to Late Holocene climate change in the Peruvian Andes.
Saule Suleimenova
s.suleimenova@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Modelling soybean yield response to the projected climate scenarios in south-eastern Kazakhstan.

Phiala Mehring phiala.mehring@pgr.reading.ac.uk 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.
Camilla Negri c.negri@pgr.reading.ac.uk Developing risk-based approaches to modelling phosphorus contamination in agricultural catchments.
Joy Ommer j.ommer@pgr.reading.ac.uk Reducing risk to hydrological extremes with Nature-based Solutions.
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.
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.
Gabrielle Powell g.b.powell@pgr.reading.ac.uk Evaluating the multiple functions of woodlands for natural flood management (NFM).
David Richardson d.s.richardson@pgr.reading.ac.uk Verification and diagnostics of ensemble-based earth-system models.
Victoria Robinson v.a.robinson@pgr.reading.ac.uk Atomic Archaeology - Improving In-Situ Detection Methods for the Identification and Mapping of Sub-Surface Features.
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.
 Yicheng Shen yicheng.shen@pgr.reading.ac.uk Optimality approaches linking fire-related plant traits and ecosystem responses to climate change.
Luke Sweeney l.sweeney@pgr.reading.ac.uk The Impact of Anthropogenic Land-use Changes on Fire Regimes During the Holocene.
Phillip 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.
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 The predictability of fluvial flooding from tropical cyclones.
Mark Turner m.g.turner@pgr.reading.ac.uk Rapid climate change in the last glacial period: the evidence from pollen records.
Jessica Underwood j.c.j.underwood@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Using simple spectral technology to engage farmers in building soil health to enhance environmental outcomes.

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.
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 e.zsoter@pgr.reading.ac.uk Understanding global flood hazard climatology for improved early flood warning.

Emeritus, Honorary and Visiting Staff

Name Position Email
Professor Brian Alloway Emeritus Professor b.j.alloway@reading.ac.uk
Professor Paul Bardos Visiting Professor r.p.bardos@reading.ac.uk
Dr Sophie Bowlby Visiting research Fellow s.bowlby@reading.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor Max Coleman Emeritus Professor m.l.coleman@reading.ac.uk
Professor Simon Dadson Visiting Professor  
Professor Brian Goodall Emeritus Professor b.goodall@reading.ac.uk
Professor Penny Hirsch Visiting Professor  
Professor Jane McCarthy Visiting Professor  
Professor Andy Moffat Visiting Professor a.j.moffat@reading.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor Stephen Nortcliff Emeritus Professor s.nortcliff@reading.ac.uk
Professor Margaret Oliver Emeritus Professor m.a.oliver@reading.ac.uk
Professor Richard Skeffington Emeritus Professor r.a.skeffington@reading.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor Paul Whitehead Emeritus Professor p.g.whitehead@reading.ac.uk
Professor Alan Wild Emeritus Professor
Professor Peter Worsley Emeritus Professor p.worsley@reading.ac.uk
Athena SWAN Silver Award