People
Our talented researchers at the Sheffield Water Centre are dedicated to delivering transformative solutions to major engineering, social, economic and environmental challenges related to water. Get in touch to collaborate or find out more about our research.
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Co-Directors
Professor Virginia Stovin
Professor of Green Infrastructure for Stormwater ManagementSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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v.stovin@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5051
Members
Dr Jonathan M. Aitken
Senior University Teacher in RoboticsSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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jonathan.aitken@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5660
Professor Stephen Beck
Professor of Mechanical EngineeringSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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s.beck@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7730
Professor Andrew Beckerman
Professor in Evolutionary Ecology, Faculty Director of EducationSchool of Biosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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a.beckerman@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 0026
Professor Joby Boxall FREng
Professor of Water Infrastructure EngineeringSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: public health | drinking water quality | water supply resilience and sustainability | urban water | leakage | hydraulic engineering
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j.b.boxall@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5760
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r.w.cameron@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 0614
Dr Richard Collins
Senior Lecturer in Water EngineeringSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: water distribution systems | drinking water quality & safety | smart infrastructure | autonomous robotic systems | buried pipe infrastructure
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r.p.collins@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5715
Dr Isabel Douterelo Soler
Senior Lecturer in Water & Applied MicrobiologySchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: drinking water supply | sewage systems | groundwater | development of new management, monitoring and risk mitigation technologies | urban water systems
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i.douterelo@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 9728
Professor Martin Foster
Professor of Energy Storage & ConversionSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Research interests: Resonant power supplies, Piezoelectric transformers (PTs), Power electronics packaging and thermal management, Multilevel power convertersand Battery management technologies.
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m.p.foster@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5392
Dr Katherine Fish
Research Fellow in Water Systems MicrobiologySchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: applied environmental microbiology | biofilm formation and mobilisation/stability | biofilm management | drinking water quality | microbial ecology
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k.fish@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5732
Professor Ian Guymer
Professor of Civil EngineeringSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: mixing and transport of contaminants and pollutants | coastal and estuarine areas | urban drainage | pipe distribution systems | civil engineering hydraulics
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i.guymer@Sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5740
Dr Stewart Husband
Research Fellow of Drinking Water QualitySchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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s.husband@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 7901 109027
Professor Bob Johnston
Professor of Landscape ArchaeologySchool of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Professor of Landscape Archaeology
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r.johnston@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 2941
Dr Julie Jones
Director of One UniversitySchool of Geography and Planning
Julie is a climate scientist interested in climate model simulations.
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Julie.Jones@Sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7967
Dr Esther Karunakaran
Senior LecturerSchool of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Biofilms | Molecular microbiology | Antimicrobial resistance | Industrial biotechnology | Bioprocess engineering | Environmental microbiology
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e.karunakaran@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7166
Dr Georges Kesserwani
Senior Lecturer in Water EngineeringSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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g.kesserwani@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5746
Dr Anton Krynkin
Senior LecturerSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: wave problems in linear and non-linear elastic materials | thermoelasticity | wave problems in periodic/random media and graded materials | wave scattering from rough surfaces
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a.krynkin@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7847
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A.Leaver@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 3360
Dr Agnes Lehoczky
Senior Lecturer in Creative WritingSchool of English
Contemporary poetry, prose and the hybrid; the prose poem, archive, collage, auto-theory, creative translation as emerging modes of polyphonic texts; phenomenology, psychogeography & critical theory.
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a.lehoczky@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 8467
Dr Alessandro Leonardi
Senior Lecturer in GeomechanicsSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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a.leonardi@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5782
Dr Sihan Li
Senior Lecturer in Climate ScienceSchool of Geography and Planning
Dr Sihan Li is a climate scientist with extensive experience in using regional climate modelling and hydrological modelling to study regional climate change and climate change impacts.
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sihan.li@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Lorraine Maltby, OBE
Personal ChairSchool of Biosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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l.maltby@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 4827
Dr Natalia Martsinovich
Level 1 CoordinatorSchool of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Theoretical & Computational chemistry, surfaces and interfaces, adsorption and self-assembly, electron transfer, materials for photocatalysis and solar cells, soil minerals.
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n.martsinovich@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 9562
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m.mcguinness@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 3381
Professor Lyudmila Mihaylova
Professor of Signal Processing and ControlSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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L.S.Mihaylova@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5675
Dr Alisyn Nedoma
LecturerSchool of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Polymers | Batteries | Drug-delivery | Biologicals
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a.nedoma@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7516
Dr Andy Nichols
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering and Director of General EngineeringSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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A.Nichols@Sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 0256
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h.olya@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 3303
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g.punzo@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5233
Professor Edward Rhodes
Professor of Physical GeographySchool of Geography and Planning
Professor Ed Rhodes is interested in active tectonics, including fault slip rate studies and palaeoseismology – dating ancient earthquake events.
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Ed.Rhodes@Sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7910
Dr Charles Rougé
Senior Lecturer in Water ResilienceSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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c.rouge@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5723
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s.rutter@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 2659
Dr Tanzil Shafique
Lecturer in Urban DesignsTanzil Shafique is an international affiliate of the Informal Urbanism Research Hub at the University of Melbourne. He co-founded and now co-directs Estudio Abierto/Open Studio, a think+do tank on architecture and urbanism.
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t.i.shafique@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Alma Schellart
Senior Lecturer in Water EngineeringSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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a.schellart@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5765
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w.shepherd@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5732
Dr James Shucksmith
Senior Lecturer in Water EngineeringSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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j.shucksmith@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114222 5706
Professor Vanessa Speight
Professor of Integrated Water SystemsSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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v.speight@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 0259
Professor Simon Tait
Professor of Water EngineeringSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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s.tait@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5771
Dr Jingxia Wang
Lecturer in GISSchool of Geography and Planning
Dr. Jingxia Wang is a Lecturer in GIS. Her research interests include Green Infrastructure planning and development, environmental analysis, urban ecology, and digital spatial planning.
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jingxia.wang@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 6189
Professor Julia A. Weinstein
Head of Light-Matter Interactions Research ClusterSchool of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Photochemistry, photophysics, time-resolved spectroscopy, luminescence, light-induced electron transfer in chemical and biological systems, solar energy conversion, ultrafast excited state dynamics.
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julia.weinstein@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Will Zimmerman
Professor of Biochemical Dynamical SystemsSchool of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Microbubble mediated intensification of chemical and bioprocessing | Fluid dynamics | Transport phenomena and multiphase flow
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w.zimmerman@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7517