Protecting and enhancing our environment
Enhancing and protecting the environment includes work towards a regenerative future and aims to realign human activity with the health of Earth’s natural systems (air, water, land, and life). It explores the solutions that restore ecosystems, foster environmental stewardship, and build resilience to climate and biodiversity crises.
Institute Fellows working in this field
Dr Bahman Amini Horri
Associate Professor of Energy Materials and Sustainability; Leader of MSc Sustainable Energy; Fellow at the Institute for Sustainability
Dr Ana Andries
Lecturer in Remote Sensing and GIS
Professor Claudio Avignone Rossa
Professor of Systems Microbiology
Dr Alireza Behnejad
Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Bonnie Buchanan
Associate Dean (International) - FABSS; REF Lead (UoA17); Director of Sustainable and Explainable FinTech (SAEF) Center, Immediate Past Head of Department of Finance and Accounting and Professor of Finance
Dr Matteo Carpentieri
Associate Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Lydia Certa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Sustainability Fellow at the Institute for Sustainability
Professor Tao Chen
Associate Vice-President, International and Professor in Chemical Engineering
Dr Simon Curtis
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
Professor Nigel Gilbert
Professor of Sociology
Dr Matteo Giusti
Future Fellow in Sustainability Science
Dr Bing Guo
Professor in Environmental Engineering and Microbiology
Dr Zoe Harris
Director of the Centre for Environment and Sustainability, Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainability
Dr Suzie Hingley-Wilson
Lecturer in Bacteriology
Dr Melissa Marselle
Lecturer in Environmental Psychology
Professor Stephen Morse
Chair in Systems Analysis for Sustainability
Dr Tara Pirie
Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation
Dr Eleanor Ratcliffe
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Psychology
Dr Sophie Rocks
Research Fellow
Dr Marco Sacchi
Associate Professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow in Physical and Computational Chemistry, Theme Leader in Sustainable Energy and Materials Research
Dr Arman Sarvarian
Reader in Public International Law, Fellow of the Institute for Sustainability
Dr Erick Sperandio Nascimento
Associate Professor (Reader) in AI for Clean Air and Programme Lead of AI and Sustainability
Dr Alireza Tamaddoni Nezhad
Reader (Associate Professor) in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence
Dr Carl Thompson
Reader in English Literature
Dr Senmao Xia
Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation / Doctoral Supervisor
Dr Lei Xing
Lecturer in Digital Chemical Engineering / Fellow of Institute for Sustainability / Fellow of Institute for People-Centred AI