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Project list
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Earth Science and Engineering |
Exploring terrestrial geological evidence for past glaciation and volcanism in the Thwaites Glacier catchment, Antarctica. |
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Marcus Annegarn |
Materials |
Understanding the atomic and electronic structure of particulate matter from theory and experiment. |
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Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Dr Ali Mashayekhi |
Transition to turbulence in topographically induced wave breaking. An investigation into the mechanisms of lee wave turbulence and implications for the buoyancy and momentum budget of the Southern Ocean. |
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School of Public Health |
Evaluating the health, social and environmental benefits of urban wetlands. |
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Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Development of activated carbons from End-of-life Tyre rubber Char for Carbon Capture and storage, for application in the global cement industry. |
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Earth Science and Engineering |
Novel Applications of Trace Metal Stable Isotopes in Medical Research |
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School of Public Health |
Global change ecology and the biogeography of human infectious diseases. |
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Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Dr Ali Mashayekhi |
Investigating the role of coupled physical-biochemical ocean processes in climate dynamics and climate change mitigation. |
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Chemical Engineering |
Engineered Lyophilic Nanoparticles for Fat Recovery for Fat Recovery from Waste Streams |
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Bioengineering |
Building tools and technologies for self-regulated nitrogen fixation in plant-associated bacteria |
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Earth Science and Engineering |
Simulating the Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient over Deep Time. |
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Mechanical Engineering |
Transition to zero-pollution transport through optimal hybrid powertrains. |
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Centre for Environmental Policy |
Assessment of energy transition responses in the Oil & Gas industry: implications for climate change mitigation policy and sustainable development goals. |
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Earth Science and Engineering |
Advanced petrophysics for the characterisation of trapping mechanisms for CO2 storage in the subsurface |
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Mathematics |
Automated analysis for massive climate data sets |
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Centre for Environmental Policy |
Investigating the use of natural capital concepts for participatory approaches to integrated water management |
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Kew Gardens and Life Sciences |
Anthraquinone evolution in lichenised fungi |
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Materials |
Lead-acid battery recycling: Transitioning to a zero-pollution process |
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Waseem Marzook |
Mechanical Engineering |
Thermal performance and low temperature degradation of Li-ion batteries |
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Earth Science and Engineering |
Dr Yves Plancherel |
Formation and Fate of Low Salinity Intermediate Waters in the Ocean |
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Mechanical Engineering |
Polymeric Additives in Lubricants for Electric Vehicle Powertrains |
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Mechanical Engineering |
Evolutionary tribology: exploiting bio-lubrication mechanisms for mechanical devices generating renewable energy whilst preventing pollution in marine environments |
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Centre for Environmental Policy |
Dr Joeri Rogelj |
Incorporating climate catastrophe: representing Earth system extremes in reduced-complexity climate models |
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Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Measuring the space and time evolution of the geometric, kinematic and dynamic properties of oceanic breaking waves. |
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Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Dr Ali Mashayekhi |
Carbon dioxide sequestration through iron fertilization and potential for harvest of calcium carbonate from marine organisms. |
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Dyson School of Design Engineering |
BatBath - Immersion cooling of lithium-ion batteries with dielectric fluids |
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Earth Science and Engineering |
DOC-SWEET-Deep Ocean Circulation during Super Warm Early Eocene Temperatures |
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Earth Science and Engineering |
Forward and adjoint coupled ocean-ice sheet modelling |
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Physics |
Diagnosing dust-climate interactions in observations to test Earth System Models |
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Chemistry |
Can buildings purify polluted air? Developing solar-activated coatings that purify the air we breathe. |
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Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Groundwater and conflict in the horn of Africa |
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Thomas Weeks |
Life Sciences |
Impacts of environmental change on the structure and function of avian communities |
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Life Sciences |
Genomic Signatures of Sexual Selection in the Yellow Fever Mosquito |
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Dyson School of Design Engineering |
Solving fuel cell degradation issues to achieve high efficiency combined heat and power |
| Name | Department | Supervisor | Project Title |
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| Jackson Clive | Life Sciences | Professor Vincent Savolainen | The evolution of sexual orientation: is homosexuality a Darwinian paradox? |
| Alex Colyer | British Geological Survey | Dr Andrew Hughes | Scale-dependent lithological variations and their control on water resources and flooding in the Eden Valley |
| Nicholas Dunn | Zoological Society of London | Dr Chris Carbone | Developing environmental DNA methods to assess the distribution of cryptic sharks and rays |
| Rachel Flint | Earth Science & Engineering | Professor Tina van De Flierdt | DOC-SWEET = Deep Ocean Circulation during Super-Warm Early Eocene Temperatures |
| Neil Grant | Chemical Engineering | Dr Adam Hawkes | Understanding the costs of mitigating climate change |
| Liam Holder | Earth Science & Engineering | Professor Tina van De Flierdt | Production and Export of Ross Sea Bottom Water Through Periods of Dramatic Climate Change |
| Swapnil Jagtap | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Dr Marc Stettler | Minimising socio-environmental impacts of aircraft engine performance through integrated multi-disciplinary design analysis and optimisation |
| Phillip Jervis | Zoological Society of London | Dr Trenton Garner | The key to controlling infectious diseases in nature: islands in the sea and sky |
| Nerine Joewondo | Chemical Engineering | Dr Valeria Garbin | Imaging and modeling the fate of trapped gas in porous media |
| Galina Jönsson | Centre for Ecology & Hydrology | Dr Nick Isaac | Understanding the past to predict the future of distribution change in British Lepidoptera |
| Alexander Lipp | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Gareth Roberts | Modeling landscape evolution through space and time: Histories of physical and chemical denudation |
| Elysia Lucas | Chemical Engineering | Dr Gonzalo Guillén Gosálbez | Modelling of the water-energy-food nexus via environmentally extended input-output tables coupled with optimisation |
| James Marschalek | Earth Science & Engineering | Professor Martin Siegert | Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet under Changing Environmental Conditions |
| Thomas Matthews | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Jamie Wilkinson | Titanite occurrence and chemistry as a monitor of melt redox state, magmatic fertility and hydrothermal alteration in porphyry ore systems |
| Daniel Mehlig | Centre for Environmental Policy | Professor Helen Apsimon | Electrification of London’s car fleet and benefits for air quality |
| Thomas Merry | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Ian Bastow | The neotectonics and seismic hazard of Cyprus |
| Chetan Nathwani | Natural History Museum | Dr Jamie Wilkinson | Developing tools for the sustainable exploration of epithermal ore deposits: alteration mineral chemistry for targeting and assessment of fertility |
| Geraint Northwood-Smith | Earth Science & Engineering | Professor Sanjeev Gupta | Comparison of terrestrial and Martian fluvio-lacustrine palaeoenvironments |
| Andreas Olympios | Chemical Engineering | Dr Christos Markides | Economic and socio-technological assessment of low carbon and environmental improvements for the automotive manufacturing sector |
| Paloma Ortega Arriaga | Physics | Professor Jenny Nelson | Rural electrification strategies to address energy access and climate change mitigation |
| Lily Peck | Life Sciences | Professor Tim Barraclough | Predicting the evolutionary responses of crop pathogens to climate change |
| Sadie Robertson | Physics | Dr Jonathan Eastwood | Spacecraft observations of magnetic reconnection using MMS |
| Pietro Salvi | Physics | Dr Paulo Ceppi | Improving our understanding of radiative forcing and feedback |
| Eric Schoenrock | Physics | Dr Heather Graven | Estimating and attributing regional methane emissions using innovative atmospheric measurements |
| Carl Thomas | Physics | Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis | Using machine learning to constrain the atmospheric dynamics contribution to regional climate change |
| Laura Warwick | Physics | Dr Helen Brindley | Investigating the impact of IR surface emissivity knowledge & uncertainties on climate & weather-forecasting timescales |
| Name | Department | Supervisor | Project Title |
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| Jack Anderson | Natural History Museum | Dr Chiara Petrone | Magma mixing and explosive activity at Popocatepetl volcano (Mexico) |
| Courtnae Bailey | Centre for Environmental Policy | Karen Makuch | Climate finance: Adaptation and Resilience of water resources in the Caribbean |
| Matthew Barker | Mathematics | Professor Pierre Degond | Mean-field games and the transition from fossil fuels to lowcarbon |
| Hamish Beath | Physics | Professor Jenny Nelson | Designing low carbon pathways for rural electrification |
| Anna Caklais | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Dylan Rood | Validating Ground Motion Models For Critical Engineered Structures Using Fragile Geologic Features |
| Kelvin Choi | Physics | Dr Helen Brindley | Building a long-term record of the global solar energy resource from satellite observations |
| Susannah Gold | Zoological Society of London | Professor Rosie Woodroffe | Integrating human and wildlife health: the case of nonfatal rabies in Africa |
| Fumi Hayashi | Physics | Dr Arnaud Czaja | Warm and cold paths for ocean-atmosphere coupling in midlatitudes |
| Sarah Hayes | School of Public Health | Professor Christl Donnelly | Mathematical understanding of the multi-species biological networks underpinning rabies transmission dynamics |
| Louis Hennequin | Chemical Engineering | Dr Jason Hallett | Phytoremediation for Renewable Energy: Energy Production During Decontamination |
| Daniel Kenna | Life Sciences | Dr Richard Gill | Social bee success in fragmented agricultural landscapes |
| Jenna Lawson | Life Sciences | Dr Cristina Banks Leite | Bringing the Geoffroy’s spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi ) back from the brink of extinction in Costa Rica |
| Emily Lewis-Brown | Life Sciences | Dr Morena Mills | Understanding the adoption and spread of marine community-based conservation |
| Joss Lyons-White | Life Sciences | Dr Andrew Knight | Changing Palms: Designing Strategies for Positive Institutional Behaviour Change to Address Land-Use Change and Mitigate Climate Change in the Palm Oil Industry |
| Sinead Lyster | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Alex Whittaker | Reconstructing erosion and sediment supply from the continents in deep time – examples from the Cretaceous |
| Luqman Hakim Mohd Azmi | Chemical Engineering | Dr Bradley Ladewig | Advanced membrane separation materials including metal organic frameworks and composite membranes, for water processing applications |
| Diego Moya Pinta | Chemical Engineering | Dr Adam Hawkes | Global energy system modelling for the decarbonisation of the building sector |
| Hollie Packman | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Susan Little | Understanding modern biogeochemical cycles in the context of the international GEOTRACES program – Cadmium, zinc, lead and neodymium isotope analyses |
| Charlotte Page | Life Sciences | Professor Jon Lloyd | Coral Reefs of 2050: Are there winning reefs in the face of committed near-future climate change? |
| Albertine Pegrum-Haram | Earth Science & Engineering | Professor Tina van de Flierdt | A journey from the modern ocean to the past and into the future - how does seawater acquire its chemical fingerprint? |
| Henrike Schulte to Bühne | Life Sciences | Dr Joseph Tobias | Do climate and land use changes interact to precipitate biodiversity loss? |
| Jennifer Shadrick | Earth Science & Engineering | Dr Dylan Rood | Will climate change make coastal erosion rates faster?: Comparing historic and Holocene cliff retreat rates using cosmogenic isotopes with numerical models |
| Jennifer Shelton | School of Public Health | Professor Matthew Fisher | Environmental drivers of azole-resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus and its relevance to human health |
| Mohan Smith | Physics | Professor Ralf Toumi | Applications of artificial intelligence to satellite data for extreme weather forecasts |
| Nixon Sunny | Chemical Engineering | Professor Nilay Shah | Development of an open-source systems modelling framework for H2-CCS integrated applications in Europe |
| Chris Wells | Physics | Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis | Human health co-benefits from climate change mitigation |
| Peter Zheng | Aeronautics | Dr Mirko Kovac | Automated monitoring of rainforest biophysical structure from aerial platforms |
Any questions?
For any queries related to our SSCP DTP studentships, please contact our Doctoral Training Coordinator, Christiane Morgan (c.morgan@imperial.ac.uk)
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