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 Environmental Hazards & Pollution 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 Solid Earth Dynamics, Earth, Atmosphere & Ocean Processes tectonics, geomorphology, geochronology, flume experiments
George Adamson george.adamson@kcl.ac.uk Geography King's College London Climate and Environmental Change, Past Life & Environments 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 Climate and Environmental Change, Environmental Hazards & Pollution, Applied Environmental Modelling, Mathematics & Physics, AI, Big Data & Geospatial Analysis in Environmental Science groundwater hydrology; seawater intrusion; AI; flood defence structures; streamflow forcasting
Aida Andrese a.andres@ucl.ac.uk Genetics, Evolution and Environment UCL Evolution & Adaptation, Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation, Climate and Environmental Change genomes, population genetics, adaptation, primates, endangered species
Alexandre Antonelli a.antonelli@kew.org Science Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation biodiversity, biogeography, evolution, conservation, restoration
Roman Arguello r.arguello@qmul.ac.uk Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Genomics Queen Mary University of London Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation, Evolution & Adaptation, AI, Big Data & Geospatial Analysis in Environmental Science evolutionary genomics, sensory biology, adaptation, sexual dimorphism, neurons
Robin Armstrong R.Armstrong@nhm.ac.uk Science Natural History Museum Earth, Atmosphere & Ocean Processes, Solid Earth Dynamics, AI, Big Data & Geospatial Analysis in Environmental Science economic Geology, applied geochemistry, mineral systems analysis/approach
Manuel Arroyo-Kalin m.arroyo-kalin@ucl.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology UCL Past Life & Environments, Climate and Environmental Change, Solid Earth Dynamics 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
Andreas Baas andreas.baas@kcl.ac.uk Geography King's College London Earth, Atmosphere & Ocean Processes, Climate and Environmental Change, Environmental Hazards & Pollution, Applied Environmental Modelling, Mathematics & Physics dunes, wind-blown sand, bedforms on Earth & Mars, microplastics, boundary layer turbulence
Steven Bachman s.bachman@kew.org Ecosystem Stewardship Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation, AI, Big Data & Geospatial Analysis in Environmental Science Plant diversity, conservation, extinction risk, spatial patterns, machine learning
William Baker w.baker@kew.org Accelerated Taxonomy Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation, Evolution & Adaptation taxonomy, systematics, phylogenetics, evolution and biogeography of angiosperms, palms
Maxim Ballmer m.ballmer@ucl.ac.uk Earth Sciences UCL Solid Earth Dynamics Geodynamics , Mantle plumes, Mantle convection, Magma ocean, Basal Magma Ocean
Marlies Barendrecht marlies.barendrecht@kcl.ac.uk Geography King's College London Climate and Environmental Change, Environmental Hazards & Pollution, Applied Environmental Modelling, Mathematics & Physics socio-hydrology, human-water feedbacks, drought risk, flood risk, water security
Ian Barnes i.barnes@nhm.ac.uk Science Natural History Museum Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation ancient DNA, population, genomics. insect. biodiversity
Paul Barrett p.barrett@nhm.ac.uk Research Natural History Museum Past Life & Environments Dinosauria, taxonomy, functional evolution, systematics
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
Lisa Belyea L.Belyea@qmul.ac.uk School of Geography Queen Mary University of London Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation, Applied Environmental Modelling, Mathematics & Physics, Climate and Environmental Change, Environmental Hazards & Pollution peatlands, wetlands, ecosystem ecology, carbon cycle, ecohydrology
Helen Bennion H.bennion@ucl.ac.uk Geography UCL Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation lakes, freshwater ecology and palaeoecology, environmental change
Alexandros Beskos a.beskos@ucl.ac.uk Statistical Science UCL Earth, Atmosphere & Ocean Processes, Applied Environmental Modelling, Mathematics & Physics, AI, Big Data & Geospatial Analysis in Environmental Science Bayesian Statistics, Data Assimilation, Shallow Water Equations, Particle Filtering
Lia Betti L.betti@ucl.ac.uk Anthropology UCL Past Life & Environments, Evolution & Adaptation Human evolution, primate, skeletal diversity, climatic adaptation
Sanjib Bhakta s.bhakta@bbk.ac.uk Natural Sciences Birkbeck, University of London Environmental Hazards & Pollution, Evolution & Adaptation
Simon Blockley Simon.blockley@rhul.ac.uk Geography Royal Holloway, University of London Climate and Environmental Change, Past Life & Environments, Earth, Atmosphere & Ocean Processes tephrochronology, geochronology, palaeoclimate
James Borrell j.borrell@kew.org Plant Traits and Function Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Climate and Environmental Change, Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation, Evolution & Adaptation, Past Life & Environments Agrobiodiversity, population genomics, conservation impact evaluation, food security, ecological modelling.
Clare Boston clare.boston@port.ac.uk School of the Environment and Life Sciences University of Portsmouth Climate and Environmental Change glacier change, glacial geomorphology and sedimentology, Quaternary glaciology, GIS, remote sensing
Anna Bourne a.bourne@qmul.ac.uk Geography Queen Mary University of London Past Life & Environments, Climate and Environmental Change tephrochronology, geochronology, palaeoclimate, climate change
Selina Brace s.brace@nhm.ac.uk The Natural History Musem Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation, Past Life & Environments aDNA, archaeology, conservation, genetics, museomics
Gemma Bramley G.bramley@kew.org Science, Accelerated Taxonomy Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation plant taxonomy and systematics, tropical forest understorey plant groups, south east asia
Paul Breeze paul@kcl.ac.uk Geography King's College London Past Life & Environments Past human-environment interactions, Palaeoclimate dynamics, Pleistocene dispersals of hominins, Quaternary hydrology and geomorphology in deserts