| Beattie, Tara |
Ocular infection, specifically keratitis caused by the free-living protozoa 'Acanthamoeba' |
| Beverland, Iain |
Current interests include: environmental epidemiology; exposure assessment/characterisation; and risk-based assessment of environmental influences on health. |
| Briggs, Andrew |
Structural Engineering. Conceptual design and the design process. |
| El Mountassir, Gráinne |
Bio-physico-chemical processes which may influence the hydraulic and mechanical behaviour of soils and rocks including biomineralisation processes in porous media & fractured rock, development of novel biogeochemical grouting technologies for alteration of subsurface permeability/ground improvement. Other research interests also include erosion of bentonite buffer and backfill material in engineered barrier systems, influence of soil microstructure on macroscopic behaviour (e.g. collapsible soils) and hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils. |
| Ferguson, Neil |
Travel behaviour, the role of land use regulation on travel and location choice and the link between accessibility and health/quality of life. Quantitative and qualitative choice analysis and GIS applications for transportation. |
| João, Elsa |
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Project EIA, environmental analysis, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), scale issues and spatial data quality. |
| Kalin, Robert |
Focused on Environment Science and Engineering to underpin the global sustainability agendas. Work ranges from site specific biogeochemistry of contaminated land and groundwater (including engineering design of sustainable remediation methods), development of new enhanced in-situ remediation methods that manage sustainable risk, to hydrogeology and palaeohydrology of local to regional scale groundwater systems, and study of global biogeochemical cycles and climate change. |
| Karstunen, Minna |
Geotechnical Engineering. Constitutive modelling and numerical implementation. In particular, working on development of constitutive models for soft natural soils (incorporating anisotropy, bonding, destructuration and creep), and their numerical implementation from single element simulation codes as well as finite element codes such as PLAXIS. |
| Keenan, Helen |
Monitoring and modelling of environmental pollutants. Endocrine Disrupters. Environmental fate prediction. Comparison of default computer models and experimental values, impact on bioaccumulation & biomagnification - EQS values. |
| Kenny, Mike |
Reinforced and stabilised soils. Foundation engineering including layered soils and piling techniques. Ground improvement methods. |
| Knapp, Charles |
The integration of state-of-the-art microbiological measurement technologies and ecological principles into the realm of environmental protection and sustainability. |
| Lord, Richard |
The utilisation of brownfield, derelict, underutilised or neglected urban land and marginal agricultural land for renewable energy, organic waste management, carbon sequestration and the enhanced provision of ecosystem services. |
| Lunn, Rebecca |
Predicting the temporal and spatial evolution of the geosphere, with a particular emphasis on improving our understanding of the hydro-mechanical evolution of faults. This is important for geological containment of wastes, carbon storage and sequestration, and hydrocarbon production and exploration. Spatial and multivariate statistical characterisation of fault architectures, using mapped of fault from multiple field exposures. Engineering fracture and fault permeability using biomineral precipitation. Use of geological analogues to understand migration of fluids and gases over periods of 1,000s to 100,000s of years. |
| Murray, Mike |
Interests include an examination of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Construction Industry with a particular focus on the behaviour of UK constructors abroad. The agenda to improve the Scottish construction industry. Engineering history and it's promulgation amongst undergraduates, resulting in the establishment of a civil engineering book club encouraging students to undertake general reading in this area. Further teaching & learning innovations include the use of 'storytelling' sessions by students who have undertaken summer placement work. |
| Pytharouli, Stella |
Geomechanics. The numerical modeling of the simultaneous evolution of seismicity and permeability in faults using a 2D hydro-mechanical finite element model. |
| Saafi, Mohamed |
Research interests include Intelligent Physical Infrastructure, Nanotechnology for Civil Structures, Wireless Sensing, Effect of Climate on Civil Structures and Wind Energy Structures |
| Sentenac, Philippe |
Fine fissuring detection in flood defense embankments using geophysics (miniature resistivity arrays and Electromagnetic sensors) and Geotechnical sensors (tensiometers, pore pressure transducers). Chemical attack of Alcohol mixtures on consolidated clay using centrifuge experiments. Optical fiber sensor for distributed pore pressure measurements for slope stability. |
| Shipton, Zoe |
The structural and permeability architecture of faults. Understanding 3D fault structure is key to answering many geological questions concerning the evolution of fault zone structures and the migration of fluids through the Earth's crust. |
| Switzer, Christine |
Contaminant fate, transport and remediation; contaminated land and water; organic contaminants; non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs); source zone characterisation; emerging contaminants. |
| Tanyimboh, Tiku |
Risk assessment and management; reliability analysis; urban water and wastewater systems; water operations research; water resources engineering and management; modelling, performance assessment, management, rehabilitation and design optimization of water distribution and wastewater systems; statistical entropy-based approaches to uncertainty management, parameter estimation, performance assessment and design optimization of water distribution systems. |
| Tarantino, Alessandro |
The hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soil. The understanding of the fundamental aspects of unsaturated soil behaviour, the development of suitable equipment for laboratory and in-situ testing, and the application of unsaturated soil concepts to engineering practice, in particular slope stability of natural and artificial slopes. |
| Wong, Raymond |
Development of food safety management system. Statistical analysis relating to food sampling. Current research extends to chemical contaminant (lasalocid) and food enhancer (monosodium glutamate) in foods. |
| Xu, Yixiang |
New structural and eco-environmental building concepts, design and analysis, with particular emphasis on nonlinear computational methods and structural mechanics, which are applicable to modern sustainable building structures or renewable infrastructures. |
| Zawdie, Girma |
Technology and innovation management; policy issues relating to environmental management; world poverty; and sustainable development. |
