Academic staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Dr Yaw Adjei-Amoako Lecturer in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 3263 yaw.adjei-amoako@reading.ac.uk
Dr Muhammad Afzal Lecturer   muhammad.afzal@reading.ac.uk
Dr Stuart Black

Associate Professor in Environmental Radioactivity

Head of School 

+44 (0)118 378 8646 s.black@reading.ac.uk
Dr Sophie Blackburn Lecturer in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 5911
s.e.blackburn@reading.ac.uk
Professor Nicholas Branch

Professor in Palaeoecology

+44 (0)118 378 3266 n.p.branch@reading.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Dale Lecturer in Physical Geography  +44 (0)118 378 4837 j.j.dale@reading.ac.uk
Dr Sarah Duddigan Lecturer in Environmental Science  +44 (0)118 378 5887 s.duddigan@reading.ac.uk
Professor Ruth Evans Professor in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 7755 r.evans@reading.ac.uk
Dr Rob Fry Lecturer in Geographical Systems +44 (0)118 3787972 r.j.fry@reading.ac.uk
Professor Hilary Geoghegan

Professor of Geography 

+44 (0)118 378 8915 h.geoghegan@reading.ac.uk
Professor Mike Goodman Professor of Geography (Environment and Development) +44 (0)118 378 7686 m.k.goodman@reading.ac.uk
Professor Sandy Harrison Professor in Global Palaeoclimates and Biogeochemical Cycles +44 (0)118 378 5258 s.p.harrison@reading.ac.uk
Professor Alan Howard Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience) +44 (0)118 378 8763 a.howard@reading.ac.uk
Dr Anna Jackman Associate Professor in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 3934 a.h.jackman@reading.ac.uk
Professor Sally Lloyd-Evans Professor in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 5293 s.lloyd-evans@reading.ac.uk
Dr Alison MacLeod

Associate Professor in Physical Geography

School Director of Teaching and Learning

+44 (0)118 378 7909 alison.macleod@reading.ac.uk
Professor Avril Maddrell Professor in Human Geography +44 (0)118 378 7756 avril.maddrell@reading.ac.uk
Dr Sabine Mayeux Lecturer in Human Geography   s.m.mayeux@reading.ac.uk
Professor Frank Mayle Professor in Tropical Palaeoecology +44 (0)118 378 6260 f.mayle@reading.ac.uk
Dr Hazel McGoff

Associate Professor in Environmental Science

+44 (0)118 378 6743 h.j.mcgoff@reading.ac.uk
Dr Gaia Mortier Postdoctoral Research Assistant   g.g.mortier@reading.ac.uk
Professor Steven Musson

Professor of Geography

School Director of Academic Tutoring

+44 (0)118 378 7753 s.musson@reading.ac.uk
Dr Jess Neumann Associate Professor +44(0) 118 378 8912 j.l.neumann@reading.ac.uk
Jim Ormond Lecturer in Corporate Social Responsibility   j.k.ormond@reading.ac.uk
Professor Steve Robinson Professor in Soil and Water Biogeochemistry +44 (0)118 378 6075 j.s.robinson@reading.ac.uk
Professor Shovonlal Roy Professor +44 (0)118 378 8944 shovonlal.roy@reading.ac.uk
Dr Nathan Salvidge Lecturer in Development Geography  +44 (0)118 378 5772 nathan.salvidge@reading.ac.uk
Professor Maria Shahgedanova Professor in Climate Science +44 (0)118 378 7745 m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk
Professor Liz Shaw Professor of Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry +44 (0)118 378 6971 e.j.shaw@reading.ac.uk
Dr Mike Simmonds

Director of QUEST

Lecturer in Archaeology

+44 (0)118 378 8853 m.j.simmonds@reading.ac.uk
Professor Tom Sizmur

Professor in Environmental Chemistry

Joint Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science

+44 (0)118 378 8913 t.sizmur@reading.ac.uk
Professor Anne Verhoef

Professor of Soil Physics and Micrometeorology

Joint Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Science

+44 (0)118 378 6074 a.verhoef@reading.ac.uk
Professor Andrew Wade Professor of Hydrology
+44 (0)118 378 7315 a.j.wade@reading.ac.uk
Professor Hong Yang Professor in Environmental Science +44 (0)118 378 7750 h.yang4@reading.ac.uk

Research staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Aslihan Benlioglu Senior Field and Laboratory Technician in Environmental Agricultural Science   a.benlioglu2@reading.ac.uk
Matthew Burrows PAR Communications and Project Officer   matt.burrows@reading.ac.uk
Sophia Cain Science Coordinator   s.l.cain@reading.ac.uk
Dr Timothee Corchia Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) in Land Surface Modelling
t.j.corchia@reading.ac.uk
Dr Esmeralda Cruz Silva PDRA in Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction   e.cruzsilva@reading.ac.uk
Ruijie Ding Postdoctoral Research Assistant n EEO Carbon Allocation Modelling
  r.ding@reading.ac.uk
Dr Md Hanif Postdoctoral Research Associate in Soil and Crop Sciences
  md.hanif@reading.ac.uk
Rajsekhar Kandala Postdoctoral Researcher   r.kandala@reading.ac.uk
Dr William Mills Leverhulme Early Career Fellow   w.f.mills@reading.ac.uk
Dr Alice Mpofu-Coles Senior Research Fellow   alice.mpofu-coles@reading.ac.uk
Dr Esther Oenga PDRA Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Geography & Environmental Science
  e.k.oenga@reading.ac.uk
Dr Regina O'Kelley Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Wildfire Management
  r.m.okelley@reading.ac.uk
Juliette Waterman Postdoctoral Research Assistant    juliette.waterman@reading.ac.uk
Boya Zhou PDRA in EEO Vegetation Modelling   boya.zhou@reading.ac.uk
Dr Lorna Zischka Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Whitley for Real Project +44 (0) 118 378 3286 lorna.zischka@reading.ac.uk

Postgraduate research students

Name Email Project
Isaac Afram i.afram@pgr.reading.ac.uk Towards Net-Zero Chocolate: Carbon and Nutrient Budgets for Compost  Use in Cocoa Farms.
Ellie Barbrook e.barbrook@pgr.reading.ac.uk Optimizing soil nitrogen (N) in babyleaf salad crops for sustainable crop production.
Charlie Davies c.a.davies@pgr.reading.ac.uk  Impact of Holocene land use and climate change upon Brazil’s Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot.
Oliver Jolezya Hasimuna o.j.hasimuna@pgr.reading.ac.uk Heavy Metal Contamination in Three Culturable Tilapia Fish Species and Its Effect on Fish and Human Health
Robert Hindson r.hindson@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Evaluating changes in Holocene and Anthropocene biodiversity and healthiness of English Peatlands.
Sumit Kumar sumit.kumar@pgr.reading.ac.uk Governance for resilience and sustainable living: navigating urban and transboundary flood risk in India.
Qiao Li
qiao.li@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Assessing the evolution of supraglacial lakes and their effects on glacier melt in the High Mountain Asia using remote sensing.
Sharon Mandipe s.mandipe@pgr.reading.ac.uk Image Velocimetry for Quantifying River Flow
Catherine Martinez c.martinez@pgr.reading.ac.uk Green Carbon Sequestration: Using plants to fix C(O2) deep under ground.
Isaac Ogundare i.ogundare@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Household and Community level Adaptation to Climate Change Practices in Southwest Nigeria.
Omofolawe Otun o.r.otun@pgr.reading.ac.uk
The effect of intercropping on soil health.
Chris Pesso  c.d.pesso@pgr.reading.ac.uk High resolution mapping of fine sediment and pollutants throughout large river cross sections with innovative uncrewed survey boats; supporting improved flux estimation, habitat assessment and bathing water safety.
Megan Sherlock m.sherlock@pgr.reading.ac.uk The impact of planting choices on the delivery of multiple ecosystem services by domestic gardens.
Lucia Snyderman l.snyderman@pgr.reading.ac.uk
 The Pelican Brief”: Using environmental archives to establish ecological baselines for UK wetland biodiversity restoration.
Saule Suleimenova s.suleimenova@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Modelling soybean yield response to the different irrigation scenarios and small-holder farmers’ adaptation to climate change in south-eastern Kazakhstan.

Emeritus, Honorary and Visiting Staff

Name Position Email
Professor Brian Alloway Emeritus Professor b.j.alloway@reading.ac.uk
Professor Paul Bardos Visiting Professor

r.p.bardos@reading.ac.uk

Dr Sophie Bowlby Visiting research Fellow s.bowlby@reading.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor Max Coleman Emeritus Professor m.l.coleman@reading.ac.uk
Professor Simon Dadson Visiting Professor  
Professor Brian Goodall Emeritus Professor b.goodall@reading.ac.uk
Professor Penny Hirsch Visiting Professor  
Professor Jane McCarthy Visiting Professor  
Professor Andy Moffat Visiting Professor a.j.moffat@reading.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor Stephen Nortcliff Emeritus Professor s.nortcliff@reading.ac.uk
Professor Margaret Oliver Emeritus Professor m.a.oliver@reading.ac.uk
Professor Richard Skeffington Emeritus Professor r.a.skeffington@reading.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor Paul Whitehead Emeritus Professor p.g.whitehead@reading.ac.uk
Professor Alan Wild Emeritus Professor
Professor Peter Worsley Emeritus Professor p.worsley@reading.ac.uk
Athena SWAN Silver Award