School of Geography, Geology and the Environment

Geology PhD students

Name Email Research theme Research title
Matteo Battini mb936@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments
Dining after the dinosaurs? Dietary diversity and niche partitioning in Palaeocene mammals
Katie Baumber kb503@le.ac.uk Solid Earth  Relating changes in melt genesis to dynamic conditions of the demise of a continental arc: Antarctic Peninsula arc 
Rachel Belben  rb497@le.ac.uk  Evolution and Past Environments
The anatomy, function and evolutionary history of the pterosaur bauplan - a taphonomic approach
Jessica Berry  jb772@le.ac.uk Solid Earth An integrated accessory mineral approach to understanding post-subduction magmas and mineralisation
Daniel Bowden-Haynes dbh12@le.ac.uk Solid Earth Catastrophic emplacement and depositional processes during large asteroid impacts: lithofacies analysis and applied volcanology, Manicouagan (Canada) and Chicxulub (Mexico)
Samuel Bright  ssb43@le.ac.uk Solid Earth  From Genesis to Displacement: testing models of Caledonian granitoid plutonism using the Strontian and Foyers complexes, Scotland
Kate Canham krc18@le.ac.uk Solid Earth Controls on the metallurgy of sulfide mineralisation of the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex
John Cartwright jc895@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments
Box-stone diagenesis in the Northampton Sand Formation (MPhil)
Sofia Chinaglia sc889@le.ac.uk Solid Earth  Crustal formation on a pre-plate tectonic Earth: An Andean analogue 
Molly Desorgher md512@le.ac.uk Contemporary Environments  Sustainable use of water in the mutualistic cities of the near future 
Alice Fugagnoli  af314@le.ac.uk Contemporary Environments
Plastic, a new anthropogenic component of the geological cycle: its chemical and physical behaviour and transformation
Reven Gibaga crg22@le.ac.uk Solid Earth  Resource or Environmental Liability? Development of Novel Ground Imaging Tools to identify critical metals and environmental susceptibility in legacy mine wastes 
Tom Green tg210@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments
A hidden record of early animal evolution? Exploring the Cambrian diversity of acritarchs and small carbonaceous fossils. 
Tayyaba Khurram  tk231@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Evaluating the shale gas potential of Carboniferous Bowland-Hodder Shales in Britain 
Hedwig Krawczyk hak19@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments SIOPACT - Developing a 250 year climate record for the Southeastern Indian Ocean sector of the Indo-PACific warm pool and its global climate Teleconnections 
Bethan McCarroll  bm284@le.ac.uk Solid Earth
Impact-cratering in Scotland: field investigation of the emplacement, sedimentology and environmental effects of a major impact-event
Anna McGairy
am1220@le.ac.uk Evolution and past Environments
The early Palaeozoic evolution of Vietnam
Edward McGowan egm8@le.ac.uk Solid Earth Eruption source vents and subsidence patterns in exhumed caldera volcanoes, English Lake District
Vanessa Neo  hfn3@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments  Improving thermal stress prediction for coral reefs from observational, modelled and proxy datasets across the Tropics.  
Alexander Rutson acr32@le.ac.uk Solid Earth Unpicking global mantle convection influences from the local: investigating asthenospheric versus lithospheric constraints on the evolution of landscapes
Rab Smyth rshs1@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments Pteraichnites’ and their implications for pterosaur terrestrial palaeoecology and evolution
Chris Stockey  css25@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments Ecological drivers and evolutionary patterns: diet, feeding, evolution and extinction in conodonts
James Symons js1147@le.ac.uk Solid Earth Understanding and mitigating the environmental impacts of metal ore processing wastes from “green” solvents 
Nicky Taylor njpt1@le.ac.uk Solid Earth Image analysis and mass petrography
Erin Thompson
et201@le.ac.uk Solid Earth Primary controls on the emplacement of mineralised magmatic units in the northern Bushveld Complex
Lauren Tuffield lt259@le.ac.uk   Solid Earth Fertility of subduction and post subduction magmatism associated with porphyry- and epithermal-Cu-Au mineralisation in the Aegean using zircon geochronology and geochemistry 
Lara Tritton lt263@le.ac.uk Solid Earth A geometallurgical approach to maximising value of Te, Bi, and W by-products at Björkdal Gold Mine, Sweden
Yasmin Yonan  yvy2@le.ac.uk  Evolution and Past Environments
The marine Anthropocene and the law of the sea
Manlin Zhang  mz224@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments Unlocking Western Tropical Indian Ocean temperature and hydroclimate back to the Little Ice Age and the Holocene, reconstructed from coral geochemistry

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