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Dr Oluwasola (Sola) Afolabi

RAEng Engineering for Development Research Fellow, and Lecturer in Water and Environmental Engineering - Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Bioenergy solutions empower lives

Dr Xujin Bao

Senior Lecturer – Materials

Advanced polymer and ceramic research

Professor Ali Bilgic

Professor of International Relations and Middle East Politics

Building trust in an anxious world

Dr Karen Blay

Senior Lecturer – Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Digital construction – encouraging resilience, sustainability and inclusion

Professor Ed Brown

Professor of Global Energy Challenges – Geography and Environment

Delivering sustainable energy solutions

Dr Sarah Bugby

Lecturer – Physics

Hybrid gamma camera to accelerate cancer diagnosis and treatment

Carla Cannone

Research Associate – Geography and Environment

Enabling sustainable energy policy decision-making

Professor Patricia Carrillo

Professor of Strategic Management in Construction – Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Learning from experience to effectively manage construction projects

Dr Jamieson Christie

Senior Lecturer – Materials

Materials modelling – advancing biomaterials for healthcare

Dr Marianna Joy Coulentianos

Lecturer in Responsible Design – Design and Creative Arts

Socially responsible design for a sustainable, more equitable future

Professor Amanda Daley

Professor of Behavioural Medicine and NIHR Research Professor in Public Health - Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour

Cooperation and collaboration move research “further and fasterâ€

Professor Sandie Dann

Professor in Materials Chemistry – Chemistry

Creating catalysts for change

Dr Owen Davies

Senior Lecturer in Molecular and Regenerative Biomedicine - Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Pioneering next-generation extracellular vesicle therapeutics for healthcare

Dr Fasil Kidane Dejene

Lecturer – Physics

Quantum materials for energy-efficient nanotechnology

Dr Ishara Dharmasena

RAEng Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer - School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Smart textiles for remote health sensing and energy generation

Dr Marijana Dragosavac

Senior Lecturer – Chemical Engineering

Engineering functional particles for global health

Dr Pooja Goddard

Senior Lecturer and Royal Society Industry Fellowship – Chemistry

The chemistry of sustainable energy

Dr Mey Goh

Reader in Transdisciplinary Digital Manufacturing – Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Ensuring the human-centred transition to digitalised manufacturing systems

Dr Kajal Gokal

Senior Research Associate - Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Exercise Oncology: The prevention and management of cancer through physical activity.

Professor Chris Goodier

Professor of Construction Engineering and Materials – Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Sustainable construction

Professor Paula Griffiths

Professor of Population Health – Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Addressing global inequalities in maternal and child health, growth and development

Professor George Havenith

Professor of Environmental Physiology and Ergonomics – Design and Creative Arts

Environmental ergonomics – safeguarding health and wellbeing while optimising performance

Professor Emma Haycraft

Professor of Psychology and Public Health - Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Creating practical solutions to address fussy eating in young children – encouraging healthy habits for life.

Professor Eef Hogervorst

Professor of Psychology – Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Addressing dementia and age-related cognitive decline

Dr Lise Jaillant

Reader in Digital Cultural Heritage - Communication and Media

Birth of a digital nation – AI and born-digital archives.

Dr Laura Jenkins

Doctoral Prize Fellow – Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy

The importance of effective communication

Dr Kenny Jolley

Lecturer – Chemistry

Enhancing the safety and longevity of nuclear power stations

Dr Simon Kondrat

Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry – Chemistry

Advancing the science that underpins sustainability

Professor Baihua Li

Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning – Computer Science

The Intelligence Revolution – teaching machines to learn

Professor Cunjia Liu

Professor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems - Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Developing advanced agri-tech solutions to detect and treat crop diseases.

Professor Kevin Lomas

Professor of Building Simulation – Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Ensuring low-carbon indoor thermal comfort

Dr Nacho Martin-Fabiani

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer - Materials Science and Engineering

Scaling nanomaterials to prevent bacteria and virus transmission and a host of other industrial applications.

Dr Kate Mathers

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow - Geography and Environment

Stuck in the mud: tackling the threat of fine sediment deposition in one of the most endangered habitats in the world.

Dr Josh Milburn

Lecturer in Political Philosophy – International Relations, Politics and History

Zoopolitics – animal rights are a matter of justice

Professor Sarah Mills

Professor of Human Geography – Geography and Environment

Exploring the geographies of youth citizenship, informal education and volunteering – charting their evolution and impacts on young people and the societies in which they live.

Professor Kelly Morrison

Professor of Experimental Physics – Physics

Energy harvesting – harnessing and utilising waste heat

Dr Roger Newport

Senior Lecturer in Psychology – Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Illusions – a route to understanding healthy and unhealthy body representations

Alessia Pasquazi

Professor in Nonlinear Optics – Physics

Delivering ultrafast photonic technologies

Professor Marco Peccianti

Professor of Photonics – Physics

Emergent Photonics – a new way of seeing

Dr Luke Peters

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow – Physics

Taming the wave – the role of terahertz in telecommunications

Dr Marco Pino

Senior Lecturer in Communication and Social Interaction – Communication and Media

Enhancing healthcare and end-of-life communication

Dr Patrick Pradel

Senior Lecturer – Design and Creative Arts

Exploiting Industry 4.0 technologies through Design

Dr Ben Roberts

Lecturer – Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Mitigating the risks of extreme heat

Professor Hilary Robinson

Professor of Feminism, Art and Theory - International Relations, Politics and History

Making Histories, Making Futures: feminism, art and activism

Dr Amalia Sabiescu

Lecturer in Media and Creative Industries and UKRI Innovation Fellow, AHRC Early Career Research Leadership

Exploring new ways to mobilise community, cultural and creative resources to provide skills development and lifelong learning opportunities for the digital generation.

Dr Alister Smith

Reader in Geotechnics - Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Listening underground; acoustic emissions sensing technology to protect lives and livelihoods worldwide.

Dr Martin B Smith

Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry – Chemistry

The chemistry of sustainable catalysts

Dr Jenny Spiga

Lecturer – Physics

Developing a new approach to cancer treatment

Professor Dani Strickland

Professor of Electrical Power Engineering – Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Preparing the grid for green energy

Dr Ana Cristina Suzina

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow - Institute for Media and Creative Industries

Communication and social change – exploring how media use inflects young Amazonians’ aspirations and attitudes towards development.

Dr Long Seng To

RAEng Engineering for Development Research Fellow and Lecturer in Resilient Energy Systems - Geography and Environment

Community energy resilience in the Global South.

Dr Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora

Incoming EPSRC Quantum Technology Career Development Fellow – Physics

Micro-comb lasers – revolutionising quantum technologies

Dr Jonathan Wagner

Senior Lecturer – Chemical Engineering

Biomass research addressing global resource security

Dr Allan Watson

Reader in Economic Geography – Geography and Environment

The geographies of music: economics, cultural production and policy

Dr Dominic Willmott

Senior Lecturer in Criminology – Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy

Tackling and dispelling rape myths

Professor Mike Wilson

Professor of Drama, Head of Creative Arts and Director of the Storytelling Academy - Design and Creative Arts

"Those who tell the stories rule the world"