People
Our Centre brings together expertise from across the University.
Find out more about some of our staff.
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Lee Cunningham
Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering, interested in improving structural resilience of infrastructure to tsunamis, extreme flood events, fire, and seismic activity. He uses numerical modelling and experimental methods.
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Ayham Fattoum
Ayham is a Lecturer of management studies and operational disaster management. His experience covers diverse posts and sectors such as quality management, HR, and change management in the non-for-profit and the commercial sectors. His latest research aims at enhancing the resilience, agility and viability of systems during emergencies in the context of managing spontaneous volunteers during disasters.
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Omolade Femi-Ajao
Omolade is a Lecturer in Global Oral Health, developing an international profile in global health services research, with a specific focus on global women’s health. She is interested in how the strengths of immigrant-led NGOs and faith-based organisations can be harnessed for health systems strengthening, health promotion, and health education.
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Tim Foster
Tim is a Senior Lecturer in Water-Food Security. His research seeks to understand the social, economic and environmental drivers of land, water and energy use in agricultural systems using a combination of household surveys, satellite remote sensing and crop-water modelling.
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Vladimir Jankovic
Vladimir is a historian of atmospheric sciences whose research focuses on the cultural history of meteorology, medical environmentalism, industrial meteorology and the contemporary application of climatology in urban design. This work has inspired the launching of atmospheric humanities as a new interdisciplinary research field.
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Domenico Lombardi
Domenico is a lecturer in civil engineering with research interests in geohazards and probabilistic risk assessment frameworks. Recent research has focused on probabilistic seismic hazard assessments for offshore sites and seismic risk assessments of energy infrastructure, including offshore wind farms, nuclear reactors and dams. His research helps infrastructure owners, investors and lenders to predict and manage geohazard related risks.
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Brendan Mccormick Kilbride
Brendan is a volcanologist, interested in the behaviour of volatiles in magmatic systems and the emissions of gases into the atmosphere. The key objectives of his research are to understand the origins of the gases emitted by volcanoes, especially in Earth's subduction zones, and relate measurements of gas chemistry and flux to imminent changes in levels of unrest or volcanic eruptions.
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Tanja Müller
Tanja is a Professor of Political Sociology. Her work is situated between the disciplines of anthropology, sociology and political science, and her past work has included the analysis of the social and economic impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic; the interrogation of UN Peacekeeping Operations, the protection of civilians, and local perceptions of conflict; and the analysis of post-conflict societies politics.
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Ben Parkes
Ben is a Research Fellow focused on assessing impacts of climate variability and change on rural and urban communities globally. His research interests are evaluating the impacts of climate change on people's lives, including the health implications of increasing extreme heat events.
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David Schultz
David is the Director of the Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation and a Professor of Synoptic Meteorology. Among his many research interests are the physical processes that lead to hazardous weather events such as heavy rain, tornadoes, snowstorms, windstorms, and aircraft turbulence.
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Pon Souvannaseng
Pon is an affiliate of the Centre and helped established the Centre’s online event series and other early projects. She is a political economist interested in how infrastructure is financed and how built projects contribute to exacerbating climate change issues or mitigating them.
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Alejandro Gallego Schmid
Alejandro works as a Senior Lecturer at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and his current research is focused on: i) the role of circular economy to tackle climate change and achieve net-zero solutions; ii) the implementation of circular economy in renewable sources of energy; iii) circular economy and the informal waste sector in the Global South; and iv) the nexus between circular economy and digitalization.
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