

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