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Mark Wilkinson is a senior research scientist in catchment hydrology and Co-director of the Climate-Positive Farming Initiative (CPFI). Mark’s research
I am an environmental engineer with interest and expertise in environmental risk assessment, uncertainty estimation and modelling of environmental systems.
Ashleigh’s research interests are in microbial pathogenicity and attachment to the rhizosphere. She has investigated the molecular mechanisms of Enterohaemorrhagic
Dr Isabelle Colas is a geneticist in the Cell and Molecular Sciences group.
Soil is critical for food production but can often be poorly managed resulting in erosion and physical degradation. Research I perform ranges from soil stabilisation, physics, and root mechanics, to the development of tools and approaches for the quantification of soil condition. Understanding the services required of soil in the future, and soils ability to deliver these services, will be vital in managing soils to be resilient under changing environmental conditions.
Doug Salt did a degree in Mathematical and Computing Sciences during working as a professional software developer and engineer in
Clare is a Research Assistant in the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Group within the Ecological Sciences. She has over 25 years’ experience in soil microbial ecology, using both phospholipid fatty acid analysis and physiological profiling methods to assess structure and function of soil microbial communities. Clare was jointly responsible for the development of MicroResp™ and is responsible for managing the commercial aspects of the MicroResp™ product for James Hutton Limited.
Runxuan is a computational biologist, who was trained in machine learning and artificial neural networks for his PhD. His 20 years of research have focused on developing computational and analysis methods/tools for high throughput experimental data, such as RNA-seq for gene expression analysis. His team has published several widely used and easily accessible software and tools for analyzing sequencing data.
I am the ICP Section Lead, responsible for the ICP Lab in the Environmental and Biochemical Sciences Group. I have been working in the ICP Lab for eleven years and as such have vast experience in dealing with a wide variety of samples and matrices.
I am a socio-ecologist with experience in working in a wide range of countries including the UK overseas territories and the Balkans. My early research career focused on the consevation biology of rare and globally threatened island floras. However, after years of practical conservation experience with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Fauna and Flora International, the need for more integrated solutions to biodiversity conservation, and the need to better understand the complex dynamics of human-ecosystem interactions become more and more apparent to me.
