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Tackling complex global water challenges requires interdisciplinary collaboration and transformative approaches across subject boundaries, integrating core-strengths of the physical and environmental sciences, engineering, medical research, arts and humanities, including economics, law and social sciences.
Director of the Group
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Professor of Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry
Water Group Members
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
MSCA Research Fellow -NanoplastSorption
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Research Fellow in Water Sciences.
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Assistant Professor in Hydrology and Water Resources.
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Assistant Professor and BRIDGE Fellow.
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Lecturer in Physical Geography.
School of Biosciences.
Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology and Environmental Omics.
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability).
Director of the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action.
Professor of Hydrology, UNESCO Chair in Water Science.
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Professor of Environmental Nanosciences.
Theme lead for Environmental Sciences.
Director of Research for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ).
Business School.
Professor of Economics.
Director of Research – Department of Economics.
Water Group PhD Students
Current Students
Started in 2022
Nicholas Lugg “High frequency water quality sensor networks for monitoring hotspots and hotmoments of urban and rural water pollution in real-time.”
Mohammad Alharbi “Integrated analyses of groundwater and surface flood risks” (Tentative)
Started in 2023
Guilin Luo “Rainfall-driven hydro-thermal dynamics in the soil–plant–atmosphere system using a high-resolution signal-processing framework”
Kexin Li “Exploring the impact of biofilm formation on the transport patterns and sedimentation kinetics of microplastics in aquatic environments”
Zijian Chen“Modelling microplastic fate and transport in freshwater ecosystems”
Started in 2024
Jun Yeon “Understanding the occurrence dynamics and developing a conceptual model of cyanobacteria and what impacts they have on the environment under climate change” (tentative)
Started in 2025
Shravani Yadav (Post Graduate Visiting Research Scholar-PG VRS) “Assessment of Transport of Microplastics in an Interacting Groundwater-Surface Water System”
Sansan Feng (Visiting Student) “Study on the Transport and Fate of Microplastics across the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau”
Ali Al-Mansoori “Development of dynamic in-situ soil moisture sensing equipment for high-resolution mapping of root-zone moisture and for understanding soil moisture changes in developing woodlands.”
Boyu Geng ‘Control and Release of Arsenic in the MAR Environment within the Ganges River Basin in India’ (Tentative)
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