Theme leaders

Tom August

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Biodiversity

Tom is a computational ecologist who works at the interface of digital innovation, ecological research, and citizen science. Tom explores how new…

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Lindsay Banin

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Atmospheric Chemistry & Effects

I am a scientist at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh. My research focuses on plant and ecosystem ecology, how plants interact with…

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Eleanor Blyth

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Hydro-Climate Risks

I work with the JULES model, ensuring that it correctly represents what we know about the water cycle. This involves studying processes such as soil…

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Alex Bush

Theme Leader
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Alex is lecturer of environmental remote sensing at Lancaster University, specialising in ecological modelling for monitoring, managing and…

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Denes Csala

Theme Leader
LU - Engineering

Dénes is a researcher and thinker interested in exploring the language of data: visualisation. He holds a lectureship at Lancaster University in the…

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Rob Dunford-Brown

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Biodiversity

Rob Dunford is a Geographer with over 15 years experience working as an interdisciplinary research scientist. He specialises in approaches that…

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Carolina Euan

Theme Leader
LU - School of Mathematics and Statistics

I am a Lecturer in Statistics at the Mathematics and Statistics Department, University of Lancaster. My research interests include the development of…

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Matthew Fry

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Water Resources

Matt is an Environmental Informatics Manager at UKCEH, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. He leads a team of data managers,…

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Pete Henrys

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

Peter Henrys is a chartered statistician at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology specialising in long term large scale spatial-temporal modelling…

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Ryan Hossaini

Theme Leader
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Ryan is a Reader in Atmospheric Chemistry in LEC. He has over a decade of experience developing and applying process-based models to understand…

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Bran Knowles

Theme Leader
LU - School of Computing and Communications

My research interest is the phenomenon of trust - how people come to trust (or not), and what the character or quality of that phenomenon is in…

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Amber Leeson

Theme Leader
LU - Lancaster Environment Centre

Amber Leeson is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Data Science at Lancaster University, where she is Theme Lead for Environment in the Data Science…

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Barry Porter

Theme Leader
LU - School of Computing and Communications

I work on autonomous and self-adaptive software systems, which learn in real-time how best to compose themselves from a pool of potential behaviours…

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Fiona Seaton

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

I am a quantitative ecologist based in the Land Use group in Lancaster. My main focus is on using various data science and statistical methods to…

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Amy Thomas

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Soils & Land Use

Amy is a soils, land use and public goods modeller specialising in development of modelling frameworks for local to national scale applications.…

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Lauren Thornton

Theme Leader
LU - School of Computing and Communications

I am a PhD student & CEEDS ECR Representative. In my research I study trust in environmental data science, specifically looking at ways we can…

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Kelly Widdicks

Theme Leader
UKCEH - Pollution

Kelly is a Software Systems Architect in the Environmental Data Science group at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and a Theme Lead…

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