Directory of expertise
Contact details for members of the Water Centre with details of their role and expertise.
Name |
Title/ Expertise |
Contact |
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Mohamad Abdel-Aal |
PhD Student, Civil and Structural Engineering Modelling, underground heat recovery, urban water cycle |
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Christian Akpan |
PhD Student, Chemical and Biological Engineering Wastewater |
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Fatima Ajia |
PhD Researcher, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Water governance in relation to public involvement in water resource management, and the adaptation to climate change and urbanisation. |
fajia1@Sheffield.ac.uk |
Manar Al-Safar |
PhD Student, Civil and Structural Engineering Flow hydrodynamics |
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Matthew Badger |
PhD Student, IDC STREAM Studentship, Civil and Structural Engineering Sustainable drainage, surface water management, sewer systems |
Contact Dr James Shucksmith |
Professor Stephen Beck |
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Flow measurement, heat transfer, leak detection, pipeline failures |
+44 114 222 7730 |
Professor Catherine Biggs |
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering Environmental engineering, urban water environment, bio-engineering |
+44 114 222 7510 |
Dr Kamaljit Birdi |
Senior Lecturer in Occupational Psychology, Management School Understanding, and enhancing, factors influencing creativity and innovation in organisations. |
+44 114 222 3288 |
Dr John Blanksby |
Senior Research Fellow, Civil and Structural Engineering Modelling and management of urban drainage systesm (sewage treatment plant inlet works & surface management measures including water quantity and quality.) |
+44 114 222 5750 |
Professor Joby Boxall | Professor of Water Infrastructure Engineering, EPSRC Challenging Engineer, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering |
+44 114 222 5760 |
Dr Andrew Brint |
Lecturer in Operations Management, Management School Operational Research and statistical modelling of Asset Mangement |
+44 114 222 3470 |
Joe Butterfield |
PhD Student, IDC STREAM Studentship, Department of Mechanical Engineering Fundamentals of leak detection in water distribution systems |
Contact Stephen Beck |
Fiona Calder |
PhD Student, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Hydrology, Water resources Engineering, sustainable manufacturing, river pollutants |
+44 114 222 5767 |
Vivian Camacho | PhD Student, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering | |
Dr Ross Cameron |
Senior Lecturer Landscape Management, Ecology and Design Plant stress and adaptation, plants / landscapes and climate change, plants and eco-system service delivery |
+44 114 222 0614 |
Professor Duncan Cameron |
Professor of Plant and Soil Biology, Co-director P3, Animal and Plant Science Crop water use and irrigation |
+44 114 222 0066 |
Daniel Caviedes-Voullième |
PhD Student, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Hydrology, Water resources Engineering, sustainable manufacturing, river pollutants |
+44 114 222 5767 |
Professor Fabio Ciravegna |
Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies, Computer Science Citizen observatories, crowdsourcing, participatory sensing, low cost sensing |
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Dr Richard Collins |
Lecturer in Water Engineering, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Water engineering, water distribution systems |
+44 114 222 5715 |
Dr Stephen Connelly |
Senior Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning Governance, public involvement, evaluation, coproduction of research, organisational change |
+44 114 222 6916 |
Dr Matthew Cotton |
Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning Public participation in infrastructure planning, planning policy and evaluation of the social impacts of engineering projects. |
+44 114 2226183 |
Liz Court |
PhD Student, Chemical and Biological Engineering Synthetic biology, pathogens |
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Andrew Darby |
Partnerships Development Officer, Research and Innovation Services Strategic partnership development across faculties and departments |
+44 114 222 1453 |
Simon De-Ville |
PhD Student, Civil and Structural Engineering Data sharing, modelling hydrological processes, SUDS, Stormwater, green roofs |
+44 114 222 5767 |
Professor Tony Dodd |
Lecturer in Aerospace Systems Engineering, Automatic Control and Systems Engineering Robotic inspection; condition monitoring; control; systems engineering |
+44 114 222 5636 |
Dr Isabel Douterelo |
Research Associate, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Aquatic ecology, environmental microbiology, molecular microbial ecology |
+44 114 222 5767 |
Dr Nigel Dunnett |
Professor of Planting Design and Vegetation Technology, Department of Landscape Water-Sensitive Design. Ecology, Biodiversity. Ecosystem Services. Vegetation design. Aesthetics. Vegetation Technology. |
+44 114 222 0611 |
Dr Stephen Ebbens |
EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow, Chemical and Biological Engineering Nanoswimming devices |
+44 114 222 7589 |
Dr Kathryn Ellis |
Postgraduate Researcher, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Bacteriological failures in distribution systems |
+44 114 222 5750 |
Dr Andrew Ferguson |
Research Development Manager, Chemical and Biological Engineering Water Treatment |
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Katherine Fish |
Research Associate, Civil and Structural Engineering Drinking water distribution systems, water quality, environmental microbiology, biofilms, molecular microbial ecology |
+44 114 222 5767 |
Mr Sam Fox |
PhD Student Modelling leakage behaviour |
+44 114 222 5416 |
Dr Will Furnass |
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Civil and Structural Engineering Modelling the hydraulics and water quality of water distribution networks, machine learning, hydroinformatics, research software engineering |
+44 114 222 5768 |
Professor Mark Geoghegan |
Professor of Soft Matter Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy Polymers at surfaces and interfaces, Polymer gels and diffusion, Cell-surface interactions, Soft nanotechnology, Semiconducting polymers |
mark.geoghegan@sheffield.ac.uk +44 114 22 23544 |
Richard Gill |
PhD Research Student, Groundwater Protection and Restoration Group Environmental science, electrokinetic-enhanced bioremediation of contaminated soil and groundwater |
+44 114 222 5784 |
Dr Jim Gilmour |
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Microalgae growth and physiology |
+44 114 222 4412 |
Mahshid Golzar |
PhD Student, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering CFD pond model, stormwater |
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Dr Michael Griffiths |
Grid and High Performance Computing Specialist, Corporate Information and Computing Services Grid and High Performance Computing |
+44 114 222 1126 |
Dilshad Haleem |
PhD Student, Civil and Structural Engineering Water resources engineering, hydraulic modelling |
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Professor Edward Hanna |
Professor of Climate Change, Geography Climate change, glaciers |
+44 114 222 7965 |
Professor John Henneberry |
Professor of Property Development Studies, Urban Studies and Planning Financial modelling of engineering interventions in the wider built environment |
+44 114 222 6911 |
Professor Mike Holcombe |
Senior Director, ACRC Software |
+44 114 222 1811 |
Lindsay Hopcroft |
Senior Clerical Officer, Pennine Water Group Pennine Water Group supporting Professor Boxall and Professor Tait |
+44 114 222 5761 |
Professor Kirill Horoshenkov |
Professor of Acoustics, Mechanical Engineering Measuring the behaviour of the free surface of open channel flows, developing novel acoustic methods for measurement of the conditions of underground assets |
+44 114 222 7855 |
Aimie Hope | Compensatory green beliefs | |
Dr Maria Huete-Ortega | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemical and Biological Engineering | |
Dr Stewart Husband |
Research Associate, Civil and Structural Engineering Erosion and discoloration of water distribution systems |
+44 114 222 5416 |
Lucy Irons |
PhD Student, IDC STREAM Studentship, Civil and Structural Engineering Water distribution systems |
Contact Prof Joby Boxall |
Dr Henriette Jensen |
Lecturer, Chemical and Biological Engineering In-sewer processes and concrete corrosion, microbiology in urban water systems, synthetic biology, odour problems, environmental engineering |
+44 114 222 8254 |
Dr Noel Johnson |
Research Associate, Management School Social capital and resilience in organisational networks |
+44 114 222 3304 |
Dr Bryn Jones |
Lecturer, Automatic Control and Systems Engineering Thermoelectric energy harvesting |
+44 114 222 5613 |
Dr Christopher Jones |
Social and Environmental Psychologist, Psychology Environmental psychology, public acceptance of new technology and understanding energy use behaviour |
+44 114 222 6592 |
Sally Jones |
PhD Student, Civil and Structural Engineering Particle mobilisation due to transients |
+44 114 222 5416 |
Professor Jian Kang |
Professor of Acoustics, School of Architecture Environmental and Building Acoustics |
+44 114 222 0325 |
Dr Gabriella Kakonyi |
Researcher Staff, Groundwater Protection and Restoration Group Environmental engineering, analytical chemistry, permeable reactive barrier technologies, ferrous-oxide filters, inorganic pollution, ether oxygenate degradation, effect of dental polymers on the environment |
+44 114 222 5734 /5725 |
Dr Esther Karunakaran |
Lecturer, Chemical and Biological Engineering Microbiology, molecular biology, biofilms |
+44 114 222 7599 |
Dr Georges Kesserwani |
Lecturer in Computational Hydraulics, Civil and Structural Engineering Numerical modelling of flood risk and responses, relevant to interaction with urbans systems, social behaviour, etc |
+44 114 222 5746 |
Dr Chris Keylock |
Prize Senior Lecturer, Civil and Structural Engineering Statistical prediction under conditions of nonstationarity (flooding under climate change) and more fundamental work on understanding the flow of turbulent, Newtonian fluids such as water |
+44 114 222 5705 |
Professor Lenny Koh |
Director of Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES) Director of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre, Management School Supply chain, resource efficiency, energy, environment, sustainability, LCA, decision support, modelling |
+44 114 222 3395 |
Professor Eckart Lange |
Professor of Landscape, Department of Landscape Visualises impacts of large infrastructure and energy projects. His research in Augmented Reality has been featured in the New Scientist. |
+44 114 222 0600 |
Professor Jonathan R Leake |
Reader in Plant-Soil interactions, Animal and Plant Science Soil structure contributing to soil water water-holding capacity and the role of organisms in this. Urban ecosystem services, wastewater nutrient recycling to farmland |
+44 114 222 0055 |
Ruth Levene |
Artist in Residence, Faculty of Engineering Creative |
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Dr Ben Lowe |
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Management School Environmental valuation (including water), water footprinting, water use in food production |
+44 114 222 3269 |
Ally Lu |
Teaching Associate and International Student Experience Officer, Urban Studies and Planning Research into sustainable planning and design in the urban water environment, with a particular interest in urban landscape history and conservation |
+44 114 222 6914 |
Dr Cyril Lynsdale |
Lecturer in Cement and Concrete Materials and Technology, Civil and Structural Engineering Concrete technology |
+44 114 222 5720 |
Matthew Mahoney |
PhD Student, IDC STREAM Studentship, Civil and Structural Engineering Bed filters |
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Professor Lorraine Maltby |
Professor of Environmental Biology, Animal and Plant Science Ecotoxicology |
+44 114 222 4827 |
Professor Martin Mayfield |
Professor of Engineering Design, Civil and Structural Engineering Built Environment, City Systems and infrastructure interdependencies, in particular Urban Energy Systems and how they respond to stress and shock events |
martin.mayfield@sheffield.ac.uk +44 114 222 5054 |
Dr Martina McGuiness |
Senior Lecturer in Risk Management and Strategy, Management School Flooding, drought |
+44 114 222 3381 |
Dr Manoj Menon |
Lecturer in Soil/Environmental Science, Civil and Structural Engineering Soils-plant water relationships, Modelling water flow, nitrate dynamics in soils |
+44 114 222 5752 |
Dr Steve Mounce | ||
Dr Joy Mukherjee |
Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Chemical and Biological Engineering Bacterial cell characterisation, biofilm, synthetic biology |
+44 114 222 7599 |
Mano Muthusamy |
Doctoral Researcher, Civil and Structural Engineering Climate change |
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Vi Nguyen |
PhD Student, Chemical and Biological Engineering Biofilm formation, anaerobic digestion |
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Andrew Nichols |
Lecturer, Civil and Structural Engineering Surface dynamics, novel sensing and experimental methods |
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Bobby Nisha |
Teaching Associate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Water from urban regeneration, water-front public space design, water as a design element and social interaction, symbolism and sense of place |
+44 114 222 6934 |
Dr Mark Ogden |
Lecturer, Chemical and Biological Engineering Metal separations and ion exchange |
+44 114 222 7504 |
Alastair Oswals |
Associate Teacher in Landscape Archaeology, Archaeology Historic contamination; historic landscape |
+44 114 222 2925 |
Dr Jagroop Pandhal |
Lecturer in Biological Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering Metabolic engineering, environmental engineering, omics |
+44 114 222 4914 |
Dr Alex Peng |
Lecturer in Information Systems, Information School Citizen engagement of smart technologies, evaluation and measurement of the impacts of engineering solutions, interventions to facilitate behaviour changes, market sizing, business model design |
+44 114 222 2658 |
Frances Pick |
PhD Student, IDC STREAM Studentship, Chemical and Biological Engineering Water distribution systems |
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Suzanne Pinkney |
Research Associate, Chemical and Biological Engineering Residence time distributions, particle size reduction |
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Paul Raven |
Postgraduate Researcher, Civil and Structural Engineering Infrastructure futures and theory, metasystem dynamics, critical strategic foresight |
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Professor Edward Rhodes |
Chair in Physical Geography Measurement of long term records of water supply |
+44 114 222 7910 |
Dr Maria Romero-González |
Lecturer, Civil and Structural Engineering Experimental studies at molecular scale of the structure and bonding of contaminants on living surfaces in soils, sediments and water |
m.e.romero-gonzalez@sheffield.ac.uk +44 114 222 5740 |
Matteo Rubinato |
Research Student, Civil and Structural Engineering Risk of urban flooding and how to improve computer models for developing urban flood maps |
+44 114 222 5767 |
Dr Alma Schellart |
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering Integrated water quality modelling, urban rainfall, head recovery |
+44 114 222 5765 |
Paul Shaffer | PhD Student | |
Dr Songdong Shao |
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering Hydraulic engineering, modelling techniques |
+44 114 222 5783 |
Dr Liz Sharp |
Senior Lecturer, Town and Regional Planning Water policy, public engagement, adaptation, water governance, flood risk management |
+44 114 222 6941 |
Dr Will Shepherd |
Research Staff, Civil and Structural Engineering Urban drainage, water quality, flooding, modelling, data analysis, rainfall, GIS, combined sewer overflows (CSO) |
+44 114 222 5732 |
Dr James Shucksmith |
Lecturer, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Water quality modelling, control systems, urban drainage, surface water environments |
+44 114 222 5706 |
Dr Fred Sonnenwald |
Research Associate, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Solute transport modeling, retention time distributions, and computational fluid dynamics modeling |
+44 114 222 5768 |
Dr Vanessa Speight |
Research Fellow, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Integrated water systems; lead for development of Thought Leadership Clubs |
+44 114 222 5750 |
Ambuj Sriwastava |
Researcher, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Integrated water quality modelling, climate change, asset management |
a.k.sriwastava@sheffield.ac.uk +44 114 222 5732 |
Dr Dagmara Starczewska |
Research Associate, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Water engineering, pressure transients, distribution systems, water infrastructure |
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Dr Virginia Stovin |
Reader, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Stormwater management; Green Infrastructure, sustainable urban drainage systems |
+44 114 222 5051 |
Ahmad Nasaie Bin Md Sukhaimi |
PhD Research Student, Chemical and Biological Engineering Nitrogen cycle, sewer networks |
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Iftekhar Sunny |
PhD Research Student, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Hydraulics, water quality modelling, environmental engineering, discoloration management |
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Charlotte Swain |
Industry Liaison Manager, Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Engineering partnership development |
Charlotte.Swain@sheffield.ac.uk +44 114 222 9728 |
Professor Simon Tait |
Professor of Water Engineering, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Urban drainage networks, sediments, pollutants, rivers, sensors |
+44 114 222 5771 |
Dr Raman Vaidyanathan |
Senior Lecturer, Chemical and Biological Engineering Low power instrumentation design in harsh environments |
s.vaidyanathan@sheffield.ac.uk +44 114 222 7526 |
Moran Wang |
Post-graduate researcher, Chemical and Biological Engineering Flow modelling, sewer systems, pump control |
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Dr Hua-Liang Wei |
Lecturer, Automatic Control and Systems Engineering Data based modelling and prediction, data based diagnosis and fault detection, causality analysis |
+44 114 222 5198 |
Dr Bridgette Wessels |
Reader in Digital Sociology, Department of Sociological Studies Contributes to ways of managing water through using ICT - this could be citizen centred social media use, crowdsourcing as well as organisational use of ICT |
+44 114 222 6416 |
Emma Westling |
Research Associate, Town and Regional Planning Water governance (urban), adaptive management |
+44 114 222 28357 |
Dr Aidan While |
Senior Lecturer, Town and Regional Planning Environmental governance, environmental regulation, environmental policy |
+44 114 222 6184 |