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Co-Directors
Dr
Charles
Rougé
Senior Lecturer in Water Resilience
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: complex water resource systems | water infrastructure design | low carbon economy | bridging water engineering and hydrology with power systems engineering
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c.rouge@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5723
Executive
- Email address
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K.Birdi@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 3288
Professor
Joby
Boxall FREng
Professor of Water Infrastructure Engineering
School 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5760
Laurence
Pattacini
Senior University Teacher in Landscape Architecture
School of Architecture and Landscape
I am particularly interested in spaces and life between buildings. This includes sustainable environments, urban forms, and people’s perception and experience of landscape.
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l.pattacini@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 0613
Professor
Simon
Tait
Professor of Water Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: water network environments | erosion, transportation and deposition of sediment in river and urban drainage systems | near-bed and in-pipe turbulence | sewer and drainage networks
- Email address
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s.tait@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5771
Members
Professor
Stephen
Beck
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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s.beck@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 7730
Professor
Andrew
Beckerman
Professor in Evolutionary Ecology, Faculty Director of Education
School of Biosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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a.beckerman@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 0026
Professor
Joby
Boxall FREng
Professor of Water Infrastructure Engineering
School 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5760
Professor
Ross
Cameron
Professor of Environmental Horticulture
School of Architecture and Landscape
I am a landscape horticulturalist specializing in the use and value of landscape plants. My research focuses on green infrastructure and climate change mitigation through plant species choice.
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r.w.cameron@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 0614
Dr
Richard
Collins
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering
School 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5715
Dr
Isabel
Douterelo Soler
Senior Lecturer in Water & Applied Microbiology
School 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 9728
Professor
Martin
Foster
Professor of Energy Storage & Conversion
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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
Dr
Katherine
Fish
Research Fellow in Water Systems Microbiology
School 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5732
Professor
Ian
Guymer
Professor of Civil Engineering
School 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5740
Dr
Stewart
Husband
Research Fellow of Drinking Water Quality
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: drinking water quality | water distribution systems | microbial communities | discoloration management
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s.husband@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 7901 109027
Professor
Bob
Johnston
Professor of Landscape Archaeology
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Professor of Landscape Archaeology
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r.johnston@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 2941
Dr
Esther
Karunakaran
Senior Lecturer
School 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 7166
Dr
Georges
Kesserwani
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: flood prediction | pre-flood protection measures | uncertainty quantification methods | sewer and floodplain flow interactions | modelling of wakes and eddies | solute mixing
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g.kesserwani@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5746
Dr
Anton
Krynkin
Senior Lecturer
School 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 3360
Dr
Agnes
Lehoczky
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
School 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 8467
Dr
Alessandro
Leonardi
Senior Lecturer in Geomechanics
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: numerical modelling | geohazards | smart technologies | landslides, debris flows, and rockfall dynamics | submarine geohazards | climate change
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a.leonardi@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5782
Professor
Lorraine
Maltby, OBE
Personal Chair
School of Biosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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l.maltby@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 4827
Dr
Natalia
Martsinovich
Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Chemistry
School 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 9562
Dr
Adriana Laura
Massidda
Lecturer in Architectural Humanities
School of Architecture and Landscape
My research interests include shantytown histories, urban informality, urban history, social housing, water and sewage infrastructure, critical environmentalisms, waste, flooding, co-design and more.
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a.l.massidda@sheffield.ac.uk
- Email address
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m.mcguinness@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 3381
Dr
Alisyn
Nedoma
Lecturer
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Polymers | Batteries | Drug-delivery | Biologicals
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a.nedoma@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 7516
Dr
Andy
Nichols
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering and Director of General Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: water infrastructure | sensor development | infrastructure management | asset degradation | whole-life costing | railway 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 3303
Dr
Anthony
Powis
Lecturer in Architecture and Climate
School of Architecture and Landscape
I am concerned with architecture's past, present, and future relationships with climate breakdown. I am interested in spatial production, knowledge production, and climate production.
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A.Powis@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr
Charles
Rougé
Senior Lecturer in Water Resilience
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: complex water resource systems | water infrastructure design | low carbon economy | bridging water engineering and hydrology with power systems engineering
- Email address
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c.rouge@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5723
Dr
Sophie
Rutter
Senior Lecturer in Information Management
School of Information, Journalism and Communication
My research focuses on information seeking behaviour, usability and health communication. I teach information retrieval, information architecture and human-computer interaction.
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s.rutter@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 2659
Dr
Tanzil
Shafique
Senior Lecturer of Urban Design
School of Architecture and Landscape
I am an international affiliate of the Informal Urbanism Research Hub at University of Melbourne. I co-founded and co-directs Estudio Abierto/Open Studio, a think+do tank on architecture and urbanism.
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t.i.shafique@sheffield.ac.uk
- Email address
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w.shepherd@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5732
Dr
James
Shucksmith
Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: hydrodynamics of urban flooding | interaction of urban drainage & surface flows | water quality transport processes in river networks | control systems for urban drainage networks
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j.shucksmith@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114222 5706
Professor
Vanessa
Speight
Professor of Integrated Water Systems
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: drinking water quality | potable water distribution systems | public health risk, and regulatory/policy development | urban water systems | sustainable water systems of the future
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v.speight@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 0259
Professor
Simon
Tait
Professor of Water Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: water network environments | erosion, transportation and deposition of sediment in river and urban drainage systems | near-bed and in-pipe turbulence | sewer and drainage networks
- Email address
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s.tait@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5771
Dr
Jingxia
Wang
Lecturer in GIS
School of Geography and Planning
I am a Lecturer in GIS. My 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 6189
Professor
Julia A.
Weinstein
Professor of Physical Chemistry
School 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 Systems
School 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
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 7517