Mr Alya Aqeel Mohammed
Research Student
PhD student, studying ‘An Investigation into the Engineering behaviour of water sludges’ under the supervision of Dr P J Cleall, Dr A Babatunde and Dr S Tripathy.
Prof Hywel Thomas
Director
Joining Date: 01/01/1996
E: thomashr@cardiff.ac.uk
T: 0044 (0) 2920 874965
Dr Talib Mahdi
Associate Members
Joining Date: 01/02/2000
E: mahdita@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)29 2087 0843 (direct line)
Dr Mahdi’s early research activities were in the field of building material especially concrete and cement and the utilisation of industrial waste in construction. His work has lead to a patent in the field of expansive cement production from industrial waste.
Dr Aleksandra Koj
Research Staff
Joining Date: 06/01/2004
E: koja@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 5753
Aleksandra joined the Geoenvironmental Research Centre as a Senior Research Associate in 2004 to investigate the issues of environmental protection, urban development and geoenergy from a sociological perspective.
Dr Michael Harbottle
Academic Staff
Joining Date: 17/09/2006
E: harbottlem@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 5759
Dr Snehasis Tripathy
Academic Staff
Joining Date: 01/12/2006
E: tripathys@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 9377
Dr Devin Sapsford
Academic Staff
Joining Date: 01/09/2009
E: sapsforddj@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 5916
Devin is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Engineering specialising in research at the ‘interface’ between engineering, earth and environment including: water treatment, contaminated land, extractive metallurgy, and materials characterisation.
Dr Lee Hosking
Research Staff — MEng, PhD
Joining Date: 01/07/2010
E: hoskingl@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 2920 870497
Lee’s research interests lie in the computational modelling of coupled thermal, hydraulic, chemical and mechanical (THCM) behaviour in the geoenvironment. He is particularly experienced in the study of reactive transport processes in fractured rock in response to high pressure gas injection and displacement. It was in this area that he developed a theoretical and computational modelling platform as part of his doctoral research at the GRC.
Dr Jamie Lewis
Research Staff — BEng, PhD
Joining Date: 01/09/2010
E: lewisj41@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 0497
Jamie graduated from the University of Glamorgan with a 1st class (Hon’s) in Electronic and Communications engineering. During this time he specialised in embedded systems development and after graduation, spent a number of months as an embedded systems consultant developing hardware and software for an RFID reader before being offered an EPSRC funded Ph.D.
Dr Manju
Research Staff — PhD, MTech
Joining Date: 01/11/2010
E: mishram2@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 2920870497
I joined Geoenvironmental Research Center (GRC) in Nov. 2010 and am currently involved in Seren project. SEREN is £10 million European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) funded project. I lead the Ground Source Heat pump package and my current primary responsibilities are to ensure effective alignment and address expertise gaps for on-going and new research work and providing strategic leadership and guidance in developing, implementing a coherent research for sustainable intensification in the Ground source heat pump technology for Small and Medium scale enterprises.
Dr Muhammad Irfan
Research Staff — PhD
Joining Date: 01/07/2011
E: muhammadi2@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 2920 876264
Dr Irfan is working in the Geoinformatics work package of the SEREN project. His core areas of research are Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS), Web GIS, GeoApps, Geodatabase and spatial analysis. He has recently developed an integrated, multicriteria, spatial decision support system, incorporating environmental, social and public health perspectives, for use in geoenergy and geoenvironmental applications. This system utilises a number of artificial intelligence and multicriteria spatial decision analysis techniques to enhance the effectiveness of the spatial decision making process.
Mr Alex Sutton
Research Student
Joining Date: 03/10/2011
PhD student, studying ‘DEVELOPMENT OF BESPOKE DESIGN CRITERIA FOR MINE WATER TREATMENT’ and ‘Investigation into potential treatment of waste metal-cutting fluids’. Supervisors are Dr D Sapsford and Dr M Harbottle.
Mr Kai Shang
Research Student — MSc
Joining Date: 01/12/2011
E: shangk3@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 7508580555
PhD student, studying ‘Modelling Geoenvironmental Processes in a Changing Climate’ under Dr S W Rees and Dr P J Cleall (GRC). MSc in Geoenviromental Engineering (2010-2011)
Prof Michael Loxham
Academic Staff
Joining Date: 01/01/2012
E: loxhamm2@cardiff.ac.uk
Prof Keith Williams
Academic Staff
Joining Date: 01/01/2012
E: williamsk@cardiff.ac.uk
Dr Philip Vardon
Research Staff
Joining Date: 01/01/2012
E: vardonpj@cardiff.ac.uk
Philip graduated in 2005 with a First Class (Hons) MEng degree in Civil Engineering from Cardiff University. During this degree Phil studied all aspects of Civil Engineering, specialising in Environmental Soil Mechanics and Numerical Methods. He was awarded the Lloyds Shipping Register Prize for Structural Engineering during his degree study. His interest in computer programming started during his final year project, which involved producing a piece of software to act as a database, comparison tool and a non-linear regression tool to convert and compare raw data with empirical formulae.
Dr Matthew Turner
Research Staff
Joining Date: 01/01/2012
E: turnermj6@cardiff.ac.uk
Dr Matthew Turner is a geologist who has experience in a wide range of geological and geoenvironmental disciplines. He has worked in both industry and academia and has experience in project management, business development, modelling, data analysis and interpretation.
Mr Huw Pullin
Research Staff
Joining Date: 01/01/2012
Ms Pauline Townsend
Administrative Staff
Joining Date: 01/01/2012
Dr Gummeneni Sagareswar
Research Staff
Joining Date: 02/01/2012
Dr. Gummeneni Sagareswar worked as Research Associate in Geoenvironmental Research Centre (GRC), Cardiff School of Engineering. He completed his Masters in Engineering Chemistry from Andhra University, India in 2000. He received his Master of Philosophy degree in Environmental Management from Centre for Environment, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India in 2002 and PhD in Environmental Science & Technology from Centre for Environment, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in 2008. His PhD was funded by Andhra Pradesh State Pollution Control Board, mainly focused on the development of Online Air Pollution Monitoring Station using Chemical Sensors & Met Sensors by Internet Protocol. After submitting his PhD he was promoted as a Research Associate and transferred to Research & Development Cell, J.N.T.University, India, Where he worked on different Environmental related Consultancy Projects and Cloud Seeding Technology Project which is funded by Government of India.
Miss Paris Alshiblawi
Research Student — BSc, MSc
Joining Date: 01/10/2012
E: alshiblawipa@cf.ac.uk
PhD student, studying ‘Enhancing groundwater remediation techniques through microbiological control of fluid flow’. Supervised by Dr M Harbottle and Prof H R Thomas.
Mr Panagiotis Stratos
Research Student
Joining Date: 01/10/2012
E: stratosp1@cf.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 6833
Mr Saad Hasan Mohammed Ali Mulahasan
Research Student
Joining Date: 01/11/2012
PhD student. Studying ‘BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES OF FLOWS AND SEDIMENTS THROUGH SURFACE FLOW WETLANDS FOR LOW REYNOLDS NUMBERS’ under Prof T Stoesser and Dr P J Cleall (GRC)
Dr Daniela Tsaneva
Research Staff
Joining Date: 01/01/2013
E: tsanevad@cardiff.ac.uk
Dr Daniela Tsaneva studied at the University of Ruse, Bulgaria with speciality Computer Science, and graduated in 1992 with MSc in Computer Science, Dipl. Engineer in Electronics, Electro-techniques and Automatics, excellent marks, and medal. Later on between 1996 and 2001 she worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer in the Departments of Informatics and Information Systems at the University of Ruse, Bulgaria. The main subjects she was teaching were Computer Foundations, Programming Algorithms, Programming in Pascal, Internet and Internet services, DOS and Windows, MS Word, MS Excell, MS Power Point, AutoCAD etc. Additionally, she was teaching Computer Science courses for adults, who wanted to improve their qualifications by getting an IT certificate.
Dr Sivachidambaram Sadasivam
Research Staff — PhD, MEng, BEng
Joining Date: 22/04/2013
E: sadasivams@cardiff.ac.uk
Research Interests: Environmental Chemistry and Environmental mineralogy
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Miss Kay Florence
Research Student
Joining Date: 03/06/2013
PhD student, studying ‘INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR METAL MINE WATER TREATMENT’ under Dr D Sapsford and Dr M Harbottle.
Dr Renato Zagorscak
Research Staff — BSc, MSc, PhD
Joining Date: 28/06/2013
E: zagorscakr@cf.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 2920 876264
Renato is a Research Associate and Work Package Leader in the “Unconventional Gas” of the FLEXIS project aiming to make significant advances beyond state-of-the-art and evaluate the potential of deep lying coal seams for the development of Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) and Coal Bed Methane (CBM). He holds a PhD in Geoenvironmental Engineering, MSc in Mining Engineering and BSc in Geoengineering with over 6 years of experience in various working environment.
Dr Ali Tahir
Research Staff — PhD, MSc, BSc
Joining Date: 28/06/2013
E: scemat2@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 2920876264
Ali did his PhD in Geoinformatics from the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin, Ireland. His research activities include implicit feedback analysis, Geo-visualisation, and Web GIS.
Miss Sanjana Bushra
Research Staff
Joining Date: 01/08/2013
E: bushras@cf.ac.uk
Dr Richard Sandford
Research Staff
Joining Date: 01/08/2013
E: sandfordr@cf.ac.uk
Richard joined the GRC in July 2013 to work under Work Package 6 of the SEREN project (Advanced Computational Modelling). His current research centres on the development of computational tools to predict fracture propagation and flows in rocks.
Mr Brubeck Freeman
Research Student
Joining Date: 01/08/2013
E: sce9blf@cf.ac.uk
Research Student, supervised by Prof A D Jefferson and Dr P Cleall (GRC)
Mr Thomas Ashley Bower
Research Student
Joining Date: 02/09/2013
PhD student, studying ‘SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTION ’ under the supervision of Dr A D Jefferson and Dr P J Cleall.
Mr Ahmed Mugwar
Research Student
Joining Date: 02/09/2013
E: mugwaraj@cf.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 7438635415
PhD student, studying ‘Bioprecipitation of Heavy Metals and Radionuclides Contamination’ under Dr M Harbottle and Dr D Sapsford.
Dr Rob Francis
Associate Member
Joining Date: 30/09/2013
Robert Francis is a Chartered Civil Engineer, with a BSc degree in Civil and Structural Engineering from Cardiff University. Following on from his first degree in 1985, he was awarded a PhD degree for his experimental and numerical modeling work on the design development of composite elements. In addition to his time at Cardiff University, he has worked for local and international firms of Civil Engineering Consultants.
Mr Osama Mahdi Abdul-Hussain Al Hussaini
Research Student
Joining Date: 01/10/2013
PhD student, studying ‘Investigation of cyclic wetting-drying and freezing-thawing behaviour of soils’ under the supervision of Dr S Tripathy and Dr P J Cleall.
Mr Hassanein Jawad Mortada Mobarek
Research Student — MSc
Joining Date: 01/10/2013
E: mobarekhj@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 7767559221
Research Student Supervised by: Dr S Tripathy (GRC), Dr P Cleall and Dr S Rees
Mr Haijiang Xie
Visiting Staff
Joining Date: 23/12/2013
Dr Peter Brabham
Associate Members
Joining Date: 01/01/2014
E: brabham@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44(0)29 208 74334
Peter researches in the practical applications of geophysical techniques to civil engineering, environmental analysis, mineral resources and archaeology. His background lies in the application of high resolution seismic reflection surveying to terrestrial exploration targets, but he has a wide interest in other geophysical surveying techniques such as electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), micro-gravity, magnetics, electromagnetics, 3D laser scanning and GPR. He lectures on exploration geophysics at BSc and MSc level as well as contributing widely to modules in remote sensing, global natural resources, Quaternary Geology and information technology / surveying / sampling / mapping skills training. He is the project training and industrial liaison manager for the MSc.
Mr Ameer Ashour Jebur
Research Student
Joining Date: 06/01/2014
PhD student, studying ‘Civil Engineering/Geotechnical Engineering: Impacts of Heterogeneity and Vegetation on Slope Stability’ under the supervision of Dr S W Rees and Dr P J Cleall.
Miss Kristina Penman
Research Student — BEng
Joining Date: 24/01/2014
E: penmankm@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 2920874645
Miss Stefani Petrova Botasharova
Research Student
Joining Date: 03/02/2014
PhD student, studying ‘SELF-HEALING IN SOILS’ under the supervision of Dr M Harbottle and Dr D Gardner.
Mr Khabeer Abdulameer Jaber Al Awad
Research Student
Joining Date: 03/02/2014
PhD student under the supervision of Dr M Harbottle and Dr P J Cleall.
Mr David Emanuel
Research Student
Joining Date: 14/02/2014
MPhil Student, studying ‘BEHAVIOUR OF CREOSOTE COMPOUNDS IN THE SOIL AND WATER ENVIRONMENTS’ under Dr D Sapsford and Prof A J Griffiths.
Mr Francois Gaultier
Visiting Staff
Joining Date: 07/03/2014
E: gaultierf@cardiff.ac.uk
Multidisciplinary MSc graduate student in Earth Sciences from Polytech Paris UPMC, the graduate school of engineering of UPMC (Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris VI)), my studies focused on geophysics, geology and geotechnics.
Mr Antoine Liebert
Visiting Staff
Joining Date: 07/03/2014
E: lieberta@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +33 6 98 61 01 44
Antoine Liebert has a Master Eng. in Earth Science (Graduated in 2013) from Polytech Paris-UPMC, the engineering school of the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris, France). He has chosen the major “Resources” for his last Master’s year.
Mr Martins Pilegis
Research Student
Joining Date: 14/03/2014
PhD student, studying ‘STRUCTURAL AND GEOENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATION APPLICATIONS OF WASTE QUARRY DUST’ under Prof R J Lark and Dr D Sapsford.
Mr Hesham Elgabu
Research Student
Joining Date: 11/04/2014
E: elgabuh@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 6833
Mr Daniel Herbert
Research Student
Joining Date: 18/04/2014
PhD student, studying ‘An Investigation of the strength of brickwork walls when subject to flood loading’ under Dr M Harbottle and Dr D Gardner.
Miss Katherine Page
Research Student
Joining Date: 16/05/2014
PhD student, studying ‘DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF REVEGETATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON PROCESSES RELATED TO NITROGEN PATHWAYS AND MOBILITY’ under the supervision of Dr M Harbottle and Dr P J Cleall.
Mr Khalid Ahmed
Research Student
Joining Date: 06/06/2014
E: ahmedki1@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 4645
Mr Ademola Agunbiade
Research Student
Joining Date: 13/06/2014
PhD student, studying ‘The dispersion characteristics in passive treatment systems with a particular emphasis on free water surface constructed wetlands’ under Dr C A M E Wilson and Dr D Sapsford.
Mr Ziad Abdelsalam Milad
Research Student
Joining Date: 13/06/2014
PhD student, studying ‘Rehabilitation Of Landfills In Kuwait’ under Prof H R Thomas and Dr M Harbottle.
Miss Claire Bennett
Research Student
Joining Date: 13/08/2014
E: bennettcl@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 6833
Claire graduated from Cardiff University in July 2009 with a First Class MEng(Hons) degree in Civil Engineering. During her undergraduate studies she selected appropriate modules which supported her interest in Geoenvironmental Engineering. Her undergraduate dissertation consisted of an experimental program using two compacted bentonites, concentrating specifically the water absorption behaviour of each when subjected to a range of relative humidities, using the vapour equilibrium technique. She began her PhD in October 2009.
Dr Shakil Masum
Research Staff — BEng, PhD
Joining Date: 29/08/2014
E: masumsa1@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 6833
Shakil graduated from Cardiff University in 2008 with a First Class (Hons) in BEng Civil Engineering. During his degree studies he successfully covered all the basic aspects of Civil Engineering. He has achieved Page Prize for the best average marks, Lloyds Register of Shipping Prize for the performance in Structural Engineering, Alan and Cyril Body Educational Trust Prize for the best overall performance. He has been awarded the Institute of Civil Engineering ICE Wales Student Prize 2008 for the outstanding performance in undergraduate degree course.
Dr Jack Barnard
Research Staff — PhD
Joining Date: 01/09/2014
E: barnardj2@cf.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 0497
Jack Barnard is Research Assistant working on the computational modelling of carbon capture and storage and gas transport in partially saturated soils as part of the Seren project.
Dr Aled Davies
Research Staff
Joining Date: 01/09/2014
E: daviesa93@cf.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 2920875005
Mr Dariusz Nowak
Visiting Staff — Dipl-Ing, MSc
Joining Date: 30/01/2015
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 0497
Mr Nowak is visiting the GRC from the Central Mining Institute, Poland.
Dr Majid Sedighi
Research Staff — BSc, MSc, PhD
Joining Date: 13/02/2015
E: sedighim@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 4279
Majid is a Research Fellow at the Geoenvironmental Research Centre (GRC). He is a Civil Engineer with an MSc in Geotechnical Engineering. He joined the GRC in 2007 to read for a PhD on coupled THCM processes in unsaturated soils with emphasis on hydro-geochemical behaviour of clays, after receiving the UK Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS).
Mr Sunday Oniosun
Research Student — MSc, MSc, BSc
Joining Date: 01/04/2015
E: oniosunsa1@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 20 8765 86
PhD student, studying ‘Long Term phytoremediation of LNAPLS and residual oils in the vadose zone and capillary fringe’ under supervision of Dr M Harbottle and Dr P J Cleall.
Mr James Whittaker
Research Staff — MSc
Joining Date: 01/06/2015
E: whittakerj4@cf.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 6833
Dr Danothy Bennett
Research Staff — PhD, MEng, LCGI
Joining Date: 30/06/2015
E: bennettdp@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 4645
Dan graduated from Cardiff University in July of 2009 with a MEng in Civil Engineering. The optional aspects of his degree course included environmental and sustainability modules, computational modules, and modules dealing with the constitutive engineering relationships. Additionally, Dan spent a year as a Student Engineer at (Supporta) Bay Associates in Cardiff, a consultant civil and structural engineering firm, for his sandwich placement (Sep-2006 to Aug-2007), earning a LCGI in Civil Engineering in the process.
Min Chen
Current Research Student
Joining Date: 01/01/2016
Dr Vasilis Sarhosis
Research Staff — BEng, MSc, PhD, CEng
Joining Date: 01/12/2016
E: sarhosisv@cardiff.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 0527
My principal research interests lie in the field of multi-scale and multi-phase computational modelling of structural materials and structures. I am keen to deliver new and innovative engineering technologies that will address the low carbon agenda.
Dr Manhui Wang
Research Staff — BSc, MEng, PhD
Joining Date: 01/05/2017
E: wangm9@cf.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 6854
Dr Ni An
Current Research Staff
Joining Date: 04/09/2017
Mr Alejandro Lopez
Research Staff
Joining Date: 01/12/2018
E: lopeza1@cf.ac.uk
Alejandro Lopez is a Research Assistant at the Geoenvironmental Research Centre’s (GRC). He currently collaborates with the research group based in University of Malaga (Spain) “OPERATIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY” (www.grupoinvestigaciontep223.uma.es) as an external member.
Mr Hishiv Shah
Research Staff
Joining Date: 01/04/2019
T: +44 (0) 29 2087 6833
Hishiv is a Research Assistant specialising in Geoinformatics. He is currently working on identifying potential sites for water source heat pump technology, which has the potential to provide low carbon and renewable energy to buildings and settlements located near rivers.
Dr Peter Cleall
Academic Staff
Joining Date: 12/04/2019
E: cleall@cardiff.ac.uk
T: 0044 (0) 29 2087 5795
