University of Cambridge CLR PDRAs & PhD Students

Rekha Bhangaonkar 

Dr Rekha Bhangaonkar Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Land Economy with Professor Shailaja Fennell. She uses economic theories and statistical data as the basis for analysing resource-use behaviour towards applying a systems approach to understand sustainability. 

Andre Butler

Dr. Andre Butler is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Land Economy. Using quasi experimental methods his research has broadly focused on investigating drivers of economic growth and development in the agricultural sector, as well as their consequences on the environment and political economy. Before Economics he studied Earth Science and published papers on vegetation atmosphere interactions and its implications for climate change.

Hamish Campbell

Hamish Campbell is part of the “AI for Environmental Science Centre for Doctoral Training” (AI4ER CDT).  His research interests are in assessing peatland restoration projects using artificial intelligence methods.  Previous to this, he completed a project within the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits (4C), about how proxy indicators of hunting pressure can be used to improve biodiversity assessment of bird species in Thailand. He has a Master’s from Imperial College London in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Joshua Copping

Dr Joshua Copping is a Conservation Scientist working in the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science. His work consists of spatially explicit land use scenario modelling and quantitative ecology, with his wider interest in exploring the synergies and trade-offs surrounding conservation and land-based climate

Vanessa Cutts

Dr Vanessa Cutts is a post-doctoral research associate in the Conservation Science group, Department of Zoology. She synthesises existing evidence about conservation interventions for aquatic vegetation in order to aid evidence-based decision making in wetland restoration. Twitter @nesslet

Brenda D'Acunha

Dr D’Acunha is a peatland biometeorologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. She is interested in quantifying water, energy and greenhouse gas fluxes from natural and managed peatlands. Her work seeks to improve GHG and water accounting, provide data for validating remote sensing products and hydrological and land-surface models, and inform climate change mitigation strategies.   

Thomas David

Dr Thomas David is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Land Economy with Professor Laura Diaz Anadon. He uses data characterising socioeconomic variables to investigate suitable policy instruments for landscape regeneration, conducting policy analysis to determine the effectiveness and distributional benefits to landscapes and communities.

Katy Faulkner

Dr Katy Faulkner is a Postdoc Research Associate in the Pellegrini group, in the Department of Plant Sciences. Katy's project involves quantify greenhouse gas fluxes and soil organic matter stability across a network of farms with varying agricultural management legacies. Specifically, Katy is interested in exploring soil organo-mineral associations and how these effect Fenland ecosystem processes. Twitter: @katyjfaulkner

Jeremy Fonvielle 

Dr Fonvielle is a biogeochemist investigating how the transformation of organic matter by microbes affects ecosystem function. His work consists of characterizing ecosystems using geospatial tools before going to the field for measuring carbon fluxes and sampling environmental DNA and organic molecules.

Rachel Georgiou

Rachel Georgiou is the Field Studies Coordinator within the Centre for Landscape Recovery and is based at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry. She has worked extensively in the field on both marine and terrestrial projects, has circumnavigated the British Isles on a sailing vessel co-ordinating research into Atlantic marine biodiversity and plastics, and has recently worked in West-Greenland on Arctic pollution. She has received an MPhil from the Scott Polar Research Institute with research into climate-induced ecosystem change in the Siberian Arctic.

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Neil Mahon

Neil is part of the Department of Zoology working in Dr Lynn Dicks’ Lab. His interests are broadly in ecological interaction networks, agroecology, and entomology. He is particularly interested in addressing key knowledge gaps surrounding the historic and ongoing impacts of human activity on pollinator, beetle, and dragonfly communities. He completed his MSc in Wildlife Conservation and Management at University College Dublin. 

Tom Marquand

As a PhD student in the Turchyn Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Tom will use measurements of stable isotope ratios in Fenland sediment cores to quantify the subsurface rates of greenhouse gas production and consumption. As his project progresses, Tom aims to measure the effects of changing water table depth and seasonality on important soil carbon cycle processes.

Valeria Pannunzio

Dr Valeria Pannunzio is an Research Associate at Cambridge Public Health and a visitor at the Engineering Design Centre. Valeria has a background in health systems design and previously worked both in industry and in academia in the Netherlands (at Philips Design and TU Delft). Her work with the CLR focuses on interdisciplinary stakeholders engagement and coordination, co-creation and participatory design approaches.  Twitter: @ValeriaPannunz1

Olelekan Popoola    

Dr Lekan Popoola is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry with Professor Rod Jones. His main interests include air quality, the development and deployment of portable air quality sensors, and data analysis methodologies.

Jack Shutt 

Dr Jack Shutt is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Zoology working in Dr Lynn Dicks’ Lab. He is interested in how biodiversity and food-webs respond to human pressures, such as different land management practices, and working on conservation solutions that promote coexistence. 

Nigel Taylor

Dr Nigel Taylor is a conservation scientist in the Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology. He has a particular interest in wetlands and aquatic systems. His work with the CLR focuses on synthesising evidence for the effects of conservation and environmental management interventions, to support landscape restoration decision-making.

Lawrence Tom

Dr Lawrence Tom is an experimental fluid dynamic scientist with interest in developing processes and tools needed to solve flow challenges. He is a  Research Associate in the Giorio group at the Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (CAS), leading the development and deployment of measurement instruments for two project areas: 1. Measurement systems for ice cores based on Extractive Electrospray Ionisation Mass Spectrometry (EESI-MS), and 2. Low cost monitors for greenhouse gases flux measurements based on the principle of relaxed eddy-covariance. The second project is part of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration whole systems approach aimed at preserving biodiversity and achieving net zero emission needed to regenerate the UK landscape.

Liam Wakefield

Liam is a PhD student in the Coomes group, Department of Plant Sciences. They are working in partnership with Cairngorms Connect to model native woodland regeneration in the Scottish Highlands. Their research interests include landscape-scale approaches to conservation management and the effects of plant community change. Prior to this they achieved their MSc from the University of Aberdeen. 

Catherine Waite

Dr Catherine Waite is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Zoology. She is a quantitative ecologist with an interest in integrating remote sensing and field-based data collection techniques to examine ecosystem functioning. Her current research focuses on land-use scenario modelling to identify management regimes and interventions to meet human and biodiversity needs.  Twitter: @ce_waite;  ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine-Waite; Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=srZRF44AAAAJ