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Route 2 - TREES supervisors

TREES brings together environmental scientists from across ten universities and research institutes, offering an unparalleled breadth of expertise. The following table details the potential TREES supervisors and their research interests. Route 2 allows applicants to develop their own PhD project ideas in collaboration with one or more TREES supervisors, encouraging creative and independent research tailored to applicants’ unique interests and goals.

Below, you will find a list of all TREES supervisors. Use it to search for supervisors by name, research theme or keywords to find those who align with your interests.

Name Email Department Institution Theme Keywords
Ovokeroye Abafe Ovokeroye.Abafe@brunel.ac.uk Life Sciences Brunel University of London Chemical Exposure & Risk Assessment, Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Food and Feed Safety, Chromatography & Mass spectrometry, Alternative to animal models
Byron Adams byron.adams@ucl.ac.uk Earth Sciences UCL tectonics, geomorphology, geochronology, flume experiments
George Adamson george.adamson@kcl.ac.uk Geography King's College London historical climatology, social studies of climate science, El Niño Southern Oscillation, climate and culture, history of climate science
Ashraf Ahmed ashraf.ahmed@brunel.ac.uk Civil Engineering Brunel University of London groundwater hydrology; seawater intrusion; AI; flood defence structures; streamflow forcasting
Aida Andrese a.andres@ucl.ac.uk Genetics, Evolution and Environment UCL genomes, population genetics, adaptation, primates, endangered species
Carrie Andrew C.Andrew@kew.org Science directorate, Ecosystem Stewardship priority, Mycorrhizal Ecology group Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation, Climate and Environmental Change, AI, Big Data & Geospatial Analysis in Environmental Science Data science & analytics (data standards, formatting data, integrating data, processing data and managing data)
Ecology (conservation, community, ecosystems, invasion, landscape, macro-, phenology, teaching, terrestrial)
Field work (arboretum, experimental design, fungal identification, global change, natural lands, plant
identification, productivity, respiration, survey techniques, restoration)
Global change (climate, FACE experiments, nitrogen, CO2, O3, teaching)
Molecular data (alignments, DNA extraction, High Throughput Sequencing, OTU assignment, Sanger
sequencing, sample processing)
Mycology (conservation, ecology, global change, identification (mushrooms, root tips, molecular), invasion,
fungaria, mycorrhizae, teaching, wood-decay)
Observational data (citizen (community) science data, environmental data sources, herbarium/fungaria
collections data, open-source data, species data sources)
R (data processing, graphical output, statistical analyses, scripting, teaching)
Statistical analyses (experimental design, multivariate analyses, generalized additive mixed effects models,
linear mixed effects models, nonparametric analyses, regression techniques, spatial analyses, species
distribution, temporal projections)
Roman Arguello r.arguello@qmul.ac.uk Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Genomics Queen Mary University of London evolutionary genomics, sensory biology, adaptation, sexual dimorphism, neurons
Robin Armstrong R.Armstrong@nhm.ac.uk Science Natural History Museum economic Geology, applied geochemistry, mineral systems analysis/approach
Manuel Arroyo-Kalin m.arroyo-kalin@ucl.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology UCL Amazonia, Human Niche Construction, Geoarchaeology, Micromorphology, Archaeology
Jan Axmacher j.axmacher@ucl.ac.uk Geography UCL Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation, Climate and Environmental Change Agroecology, biodiversity conservation, climate change, entomology, forest ecology, restoration
Andreas Baas andreas.baas@kcl.ac.uk Geography King's College London dunes, wind-blown sand, bedforms on Earth & Mars, microplastics, boundary layer turbulence
Steven Bachman s.bachman@kew.org Ecosystem Stewardship Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Plant diversity, conservation, extinction risk, spatial patterns, machine learning
William Baker w.baker@kew.org Accelerated Taxonomy Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew taxonomy, systematics, phylogenetics, evolution and biogeography of angiosperms, palms
Mounes Bakhshi m.bakhshi@kew.org Accelerated Taxonomy Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew AI, Big Data & Geospatial Analysis in Environmental Science, Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation, Climate and Environmental Change, Environmental Hazards & Pollution, Evolution & Adaptation Biodiversity, Fungi, Taxonomy, Evolution, Plant pathology, Microbiology, DNA barcoding, genomic studies
Maxim Ballmer m.ballmer@ucl.ac.uk Earth Sciences UCL Geodynamics , Mantle plumes, Mantle convection, Magma ocean, Basal Magma Ocean
Francois Balloux f.balloux@ucl.ac.uk GEE (UGI) University College London AI, Big Data & Geospatial Analysis in Environmental Science, Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation, Evolution & Adaptation, Environmental Hazards & Pollution Genomics, Animal pathogens, Phylogenetics, Antimicrobial resistance, Host jumps
Marlies Barendrecht marlies.barendrecht@kcl.ac.uk Geography King's College London socio-hydrology, human-water feedbacks, drought risk, flood risk, water security
Ian Barnes i.barnes@nhm.ac.uk Science Natural History Museum ancient DNA, population, genomics. insect. biodiversity
Paul Barrett p.barrett@nhm.ac.uk Research Natural History Museum Dinosauria, taxonomy, functional evolution, systematics
Lucy Bates lucy.bates@port.ac.uk School of Psychology, Sport and Health Sciences University of Portsmouth Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation elephant behavioural ecology; elephant conservation
Alice Baynes alice.baynes@brunel.ac.uk Environmental Sciences Brunel University of London Environmental Hazards & Pollution endocrine disrupting chemicals, environmental toxicology, aquatic pollution, environmental biology, ecotoxicology
Dean Bell dean.bell@ucl.ac.uk Genetics, Evolution and Environment UCL Urban forestry; arboriculture; green-blue infrastructure; urban soils; biodiversity-sensitive urban design; nature-led engineering
Lisa Belyea L.Belyea@qmul.ac.uk School of Geography Queen Mary University of London peatlands, wetlands, ecosystem ecology, carbon cycle, ecohydrology
Helen Bennion H.bennion@ucl.ac.uk Geography UCL lakes, freshwater ecology and palaeoecology, environmental change
Alexandros Beskos a.beskos@ucl.ac.uk Statistical Science UCL Bayesian Statistics, Data Assimilation, Shallow Water Equations, Particle Filtering
Lia Betti L.betti@ucl.ac.uk Anthropology UCL Past Life & Environments, Evolution & Adaptation, Climate and Environmental Change Human evolution, primate, skeletal diversity, climatic adaptation
Sanjib Bhakta s.bhakta@bbk.ac.uk Natural Sciences Birkbeck, University of London
Laurence Bindschedler laurence.bindschedler@rhul.ac.uk Biological Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Crop protection, pathogenic fungi, genome edited crops, plant host susceptibility, sustainable agriculture, powdery mildew rust. abiotic and biotic stresses, proteomics, transcriptomics, plant-microbe interaction.
Izzy Bishop i.bishop@ucl.ac.uk Genetics, Evolution and Environment UCL Freshwater ecology, citizen science, water quality, eutrophication, environmental change
Simon Blockley Simon.blockley@rhul.ac.uk Geography Royal Holloway, University of London tephrochronology, geochronology, palaeoclimate