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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

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Dr Bahman Amini Horri

Associate Professor of Energy Materials and Sustainability; Leader of MSc Sustainable Energy; Fellow at the Institute for Sustainability

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Dr Ana Andries

Lecturer in Remote Sensing and GIS

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Professor Claudio Avignone Rossa

Professor of Systems Microbiology

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Dr Alireza Behnejad

Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering

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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

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Dr Matteo Carpentieri

Associate Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics

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Lydia Certa

Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Sustainability Fellow at the Institute for Sustainability

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Professor Tao Chen

Associate Vice-President, International and Professor in Chemical Engineering

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Dr Simon Curtis

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

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Professor Nigel Gilbert

Professor of Sociology

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Dr Matteo Giusti

Future Fellow in Sustainability Science

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Dr Bing Guo

Professor in Environmental Engineering and Microbiology

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Dr Zoe Harris

Director of the Centre for Environment and Sustainability, Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainability

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Dr Suzie Hingley-Wilson

Lecturer in Bacteriology

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Dr Melissa Marselle

Lecturer in Environmental Psychology

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Professor Stephen Morse

Chair in Systems Analysis for Sustainability

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Dr Tara Pirie

Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation

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Dr Eleanor Ratcliffe

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Psychology

Dr Sophie Rocks

Research Fellow

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Dr Marco Sacchi

Associate Professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow in Physical and Computational Chemistry, Theme Leader in Sustainable Energy and Materials Research

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Dr Arman Sarvarian

Reader in Public International Law, Fellow of the Institute for Sustainability

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Dr Erick Sperandio Nascimento

Associate Professor (Reader) in AI for Clean Air and Programme Lead of AI and Sustainability

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Dr Alireza Tamaddoni Nezhad

Reader (Associate Professor) in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence

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Dr Carl Thompson

Reader in English Literature

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Dr Senmao Xia

Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation / Doctoral Supervisor

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Dr Lei Xing

Lecturer in Digital Chemical Engineering / Fellow of Institute for Sustainability / Fellow of Institute for People-Centred AI