People

Professor Emma Bunce

Institute Director

• Lead PI for the Mercury Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer (MIXS) instrument on-board the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission.

 Read more about how Professor Bunce’s research sheds new light on the solar system.

Professor Clare Anderson

• Director, Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies
• Professor of History

Professor Heiko Balzter

• Director, Institute for Environmental Futures

Learn more about Professor Heiko Balzter

Professor Martin Barstow

• Director of Strategic Partnerships, Space Park Leicester
• Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science

Dr Bleddyn Bowen

• Expert in space policy and international relations in outer space
• Published research on strategic thinking and outer space, UK and EU space policy
• Founder and Co-convenor of the British International Studies Association astropolitics working group

 Read more about ‘The real Star Wars’ by Dr Bowen.

Dr Sarah Casewell

• Director of the Centre for Exoplanet Research
• Science and Technology Facilities Council Ernest Rutherford Research Fellow and Lecturer

Professor Sarah Davies

• Pro-Vice Chancellor and Head of the College of Science and Engineering
• Geoscientist with expertise in sedimentology

Dr Rossana Deplano

• Associate Professor in the School of Law
• Co-Director of the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation (CELI)
• Research interest in International and European Space Law

Professor Andrew Ellis

• Head of the School of Chemistry
• Professor of Physical Chemistry

Professor Stewart Fishwick

• Head of the School of Geography, Geology and The Environment
• Professor in Geophysics

Dr Jonathan Nichols

• Reader in Planetary Auroras

Professor Paul O'Brien

• Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science

Dr Rob Parker

• NCEO Leader and Research Fellow for ESM and Climate-Carbon Data Evaluation

Professor Ross Parry

• Director, Institute of Digital Culture
• Professor of Museum Technology

Dr Harjinder Sembhi

• Lecturer in Earth Observation Science

Professor Mark Sims

• Space Research Centre Director
• Professor of Astrobiology and Space Instrumentation

Professor Kevin Tansey

• Professor of Remote Sensing
• Research interests: Earth observation and remote sensing; Land use and land cover change; Fire disturbance and burned area mapping; Landscape degradation and deforestation; Agri-Tech crop yield and crop stress detection; Supporting spatial mapping capability for renewable energy generation with satellite data.

Professor Tim Yeoman

• Professor of Magnetospheric Physics