Climate Change Experts
From unearthing the health implications of climate change to developing drought-tolerant crops, our experts are improving our understanding and developing ways to mitigate or adapt to climate change and sustainability.
![Photo: Professor Jaimie Dick](/home/media/Media,1184092,smxx-600x399.jpg)
Invasive alien species and their impacts e.g. ecological, environmental, economic, agricultural, freshwater, marine, terrestrial, effects on sustainability and synergy with climate change.
Expertise: Invasive alien species and their impacts e.g. ecological, environmental, economic, agricultural, freshwater, marine, terrestrial, effects on sustainability and synergy with climate change
![Photo: Dr Andrew Newton](/home/media/Media,1225196,smxx-600x399.jpg)
His main research interests focus broadly on high latitude/altitude settings. This work typically focuses on integrating geomorphological and stratigraphic information from offshore 3D and 2D seismic data, borehole/core data, and remote sensing of land areas.
Expertise: glaciology, geology and geophysics, climate change of ice sheets, glaciers, sea/lake/river ice, the energy transition, carbon capture and storage
![Photo: Dr Haresh Manyar](/home/media/Media,926070,smxx-600x399.jpg)
Dr Manyar's research interests are in the area of heterogeneous Catalysis and Green Chemical Processes with projects in Energy, biofuels, fuel additives and renewable chemicals.
Expertise: Sustainable energy, production of biofuels and renewable chemicals through valorisation of waste biomass and CO2 capture and conversion, climate
![Photo: Professor Mark Emmerson](/home/media/Media,1246236,smxx-600x399.jpg)
His work focusses on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, the drivers of biodiversity change and the consequences of biodiversity loss for ecosystem stability.
Expertise: Biodiversity and its interplay with climate, Nature, Resilience and Nature based Solutions, Climate
![Photo: Professor Graeme Swindles](/home/media/Media,1225187,smxx-600x445.jpg)
Professor Swindles has broad research interests in Earth System Science and works on topics concerning both past, present and future climate and environmental change. He has particular interests in global peatland dynamics, peatlands as nature-based climate solutions and the response of arctic ecosystems to climate warming.
Expertise: Climate change, nature-based climate solutions, peatlands, earth system science, arctic
![Photo: Dr Madjid Karimirad](/home/media/Media,909158,smxx-600x399.jpg)
Dr Madjid Karimirad is carrying out research on analysis, testing, development and design of offshore renewable energy structures. This covers offshore wind turbines both floating and bottom-fixed, wave energy converters, tidal turbines as well as floating solar units.
Expertise: Assessment and Analysis of Offshore Renewable Energy, Marine Structures, Floating Wind Turbines, Floating Solar, Offshore Wind, climate
![Photo: Dr Donal Mullan](/home/media/Media,1224385,smxx-600x399.jpg)
Dr Mullan's research focuses on the development of regional and site-specific future climate change scenarios using statistical downscaling techniques, and their application to a wide range of environmental and socio-economic impact sectors.
Expertise: climate modelling; future climate scenarios; climate change impacts