ECI - Key Persons


Alison Smith

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
SMITH, A. and CHAUSSON, A. (2021) Nature-based solutions in UK climate adaptation policy. WWF-UK, pp. 1-1.

Amr Suliman

Job Titles:
  • Researcher in Building Energy Demand and Use

Angela Soasti Pozo

Job Titles:
  • Office Coordinator
Angela is responsible for co-ordinating the Environmental Change Institute to ensure the office is run effectively for the needs of all staff across ECI. The ECI Office Coordinator works closely with the ECI Director, ECI Associate Director, ECI Communications Officer and the members of the ECI Management Team who are comprised of the leaders of the research groups. Also she works closely with the professional services leads in each of the research groups to keep informed of current and future research projects, and develop a learning network of staff. Angela worked at the Oxford University Language Centre as Senior Courses Administrator and has a professional background in international education, customer service and hospitality in the UK, Spain and Ecuador.

Arfa Mirza

Job Titles:
  • Communications Officer, Foresight 4 Food

Caitlin Hafferty

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Social Science

Carlyn Samuel

Job Titles:
  • Events and Communications Manager

Cath Ibbotson

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Engineer
  • Programme Manager for Oxford Net Zero
Cath Ibbotson is the Programme Manager for Oxford Net Zero and is responsible for the day-to-day management of the initiative. Cath is a Chartered Engineer and joined the University in 2022 having worked in the renewables industry since 2005. Her most recent role was as Director of a specialist development company, working with multi-national joint venture partners to deliver onshore wind energy projects throughout the UK. She is also Director of a community owned wind farm in the North West of England in a voluntary capacity.

Claudia Cassidy

Job Titles:
  • Project Assistant to the Ecosystems Programme

Donagh Hennessy

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate in Food Systems Analysis at the Environmental Change Institute
  • Research Fellow in Food Systems
  • Research Fellow in Food Systems / Environment & Health Programme
Donagh Hennessy is a Research Associate in Food Systems Analysis at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. He has years of experience in the area of circular food systems analysis, conducting a PhD on the topic at both Teagasc and Wageningen Universities. His research interest focuses on the role that livestock occupy in the food system and how they can fed to ensure sustainable food production. Specifically, the role that ruminants may occupy in a future circular food system.

Dorian van Raalte

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Dr Anna Freeman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate in Resilience Analytics
Anna Freeman is a Senior Research Associate in Resilience Analytics at ECI, specialising in interdisciplinary environmental research. Her areas of expertise include resilience and adaptation, climate risk and vulnerability, environmental pollution and ecosystem services. Additionally, she has a background in freshwater ecology and the associated risks of pollution. At the heart of Anna's research lies the intersection of environmental and social sciences. Her work aims to identify environmental hazards and vulnerabilities, provide insights for informed decision-making, and foster resilience in the face of challenges associated with global change. She has collaborated with various organisations, such as the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, the UK Government departments and agencies, as well as the Indian Government and institutions. Anna is also affiliated with the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London (ICL), where she investigates global vulnerability to drought and the natural resources-driven fragility. Before joining ICL, at the University of Reading, she contributed to a multi-sectoral climate risk indicators project funded by the UK Climate Resilience Programme, collaborating with the Met Office, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UK CEH), and Forestry Commission. Some of her research methods encompass risk assessment, spatial analysis, stakeholder engagement, multi-criteria approaches, evidence synthesis, field research, and laboratory analysis. During her PhD, Anna focused on catchment-scale ecology and water quality in the River Thames, undertaking research jointly conducted by UK CEH Wallingford and the University of Reading. This project aimed to weave together geographical, ecological, and other environmental datasets to paint a comprehensive picture of the River Thames environment. Beyond academia, Anna has worked in commercial consultancy, providing risk and resilience analytics. She pursues her interest in microscope photography, capturing the intricate microworlds of lakes and rivers. She also volunteers in collaborations with artists and other passionate environmental enthusiasts, further contributing to the exploration and preservation of our natural world.

Dr Anna Murgatroyd

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate in Water Security
  • Research Associate at the Environmental Change Institute
Anna Murgatroyd is a Research Associate at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford. Anna holds a bachelor's degree in Geography from the University of Oxford, England. She completed her DPhil at the same university, titled 'Adaptive water resources planning to manage London's water supply'. Using water system modelling software, emissions driven river flow sequences, and water demand forecasts, Anna examined the vulnerability of the existing London water supply system to different sources of uncertainty, and evaluated the success of new supply infrastructure, demand management schemes, operating policies and regulatory rules under future scenarios of change. The three methodological planning frameworks developed as part of her doctoral research are designed to build water supply resilience to uncertain future conditions. Her main research interests include water resources planning and management, global food systems, computational modelling, multi-objective optimisation, climate impacts analysis, data analysis, uncertainty analysis, data visualisation. Anna previously held the position of the Oxford Water Network Coordinator and was responsible for organising seminars and networking events, building relationships with external partners, and engaging with early career researchers. Anna is currently part of the DAFNI Centre of Excellence for Resilient Infrastructure Analysis, the GCRF Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub, the Oxford Martin School Transboundary Project, the Food and Climate Systems Transformation Alliance, and the RAPID National System Simulation Modelling Project. Publications 2022 Murgatroyd, A., et al. (2022) The National System Simulation Modelling (NSSM) Project - Phase 2 Report. OFWAT, UK. Murgatroyd, A., Gavin, H., Becher, O., Coxon, G., Hunt, D., Fallon, E., Wilson, J., Cuceloglu, G., and Hall, J.W. (2022) Strategic analysis of the drought resilience of water supply systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 380. 20210292. 2021 Murgatroyd, A. and Hall, J.W. (2021) Regulation of freshwater use to restore ecosystems resilience. Climate Risk Management, 32. 100303. Murgatroyd, A. and Hall, J.W. (2021) Selecting indicators and optimizing decision rules for long-term water resources planning. Water Resources Research, 57. e2020WR028117. Murgatroyd, A., Charles, K.J., Chautard, A., Dyer, E., Grasham, C., Hope, R., Hoque, S.F., Korzenevica, M., Munday, C., Alvarez-Sala, J., Dadson, S., Hall, J.W., Kebede, S., Nileshwar, A., Olago, D., Salehin, M., Ward, F., Washington, R., Yeo, D. and Zeleke, G. (2021) Water Security for Climate Resilience Report. University of Oxford: REACH, UK. 2020 Murgatroyd, A. and Hall, J.W. (2020) The resilience of inter-basin transfers to severe droughts with changing spatial characteristics. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 8. 571647. 2019 Murgatroyd, A. and Dadson, S.J. (2019) Natural Flood Risk Management. In, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. . 2017 Dadson, S., Hall, J.W., Murgatroyd, A., Acreman, M., Bates, P., Beven, K., Heathwaite, A.L., Holden, J., Holman, I.P., Lane, S.N., O'Connell, E., Penning-Rowsell, E., Reynard, N., Sear, D., Thorne, C. and Wilby, R. (2017) A restatement of the natural science evidence concerning catchment-based 'natural' flood management in the UK. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 473(2199): 1-19.

Dr Aoife Bennett

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Lecturer in Environmental Social Science

Dr Avidesh Seenath

Job Titles:
  • Course Director

Dr Bettina Wittneben

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate

Dr Bhawana Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Researcher on Nutrient Flows and Stakeholder Engagement
Bhawana is a Post-Doctoral Researcher with Food Systems Transformation Group at Environmental Change Institute. She is a geographer and a systems thinker with a keen interest in global environmental challenges. In her current position, she is working on interdisciplinary projects-NERC's Agile Initiative Nutrients Flows in Leicestershire and Foresight4Food Initiative. Previously she has worked on a portfolio of projects with the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, where her primary focus was on understanding the impact of energy-efficient retrofit programs on energy use in social housing and the UK's decarbonising energy systems. She studied Water-Energy-Food nexus dynamics for her PhD at the University of Dundee.

Dr Brenda Boardman

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Research Fellow

Dr Cecilia Dahlsjo

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher

Dr Chris Jardine

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Chris is a research analyst in the Lower Carbon Futures team and studies technologies for greenhouse gas emission reductions. Primarily, Chris's focus is on renewables, especially the use of solar photovoltaics within the household and on commercial buildings. The ECI has undertaken extensive monitoring of solar technologies in the PV-Compare project and as part of the Government's Large-scale Building-integrated Photovoltaic field trial. Chris is currently examining how massive numbers of small-scale renewables and microgeneration can be incorporated into the electricity grid as part of the SUPERGEN consortium on Highly Distributed Power Systems The ECI's work on this consortium project involves scenario creation, electricity network modelling and policy requirements to support the development of a highly distributed power system. Chris has also completed a number of other initiatives at the ECI, most notably accounting for the environmental impact of aviation emissions. Chris's background in chemistry allows him to combine the impacts of atmospheric chemistry with energy and policy issues to produce models for calculating emissions for offsetting or corporate reporting purposes. Chris has also undertaken a series of smaller projects at ECI including work on the 40% house, methane uk examining methane's role as a greenhouse gas, market transformation and developing a code of practice for green electricity suppliers.

Dr Colin Nolden

Job Titles:
  • Researcher in the Politics of Energy Demand
Colin joined the Environmental Change Institute in November 2019 as a Researcher in the Politics of Energy Demand at the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions. Alongside his appointment at the University of Oxford, Colin works as a Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at University of Bristol Law School. Previous academic appointments include a Research Fellowship in Energy Efficiency and Innovation at SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, and a PhD in Energy Policy at the University of Exeter. Throughout his academic career, Colin has worked for schools of Geography, Politics, Business, Management and Law. As a consultant, Colin has worked for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (London, UK), the former Department of Energy and Climate Change (London, UK), Climate-KIC (Frankfurt, Germany), Provadis School of International Management and Technology (Frankfurt, Germany), the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter (Exeter, UK), and BEKS EnergieEffizienz GmbH (Bremen, Germany). In between, Colin worked as a steelworker and a mussel farmer. As a director of Community Energy South, Colin is responsible for research and innovation. Nolden, C., Towers, L., Schamroth Rossade, D., Thomas, P., Speciale, G. and Watson, R. (2022) "Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain", Local Environment, 27(9), pp. 1151-1171. Schneiders, A., Fell, M. and Nolden, C. (2022) "Peer-to-peer electricity trading and the sharing economy: social, markets and regulatory perspectives", Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, 17(1). Nolden, C. (2019) "The governance of sustainable city business models", in eceee 2019 Summer Study on energy efficiency: Is efficient sufficient?. European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. Polzin, F., Nolden, C. and von Flotow, P. (2018) "Drivers and barriers for municipal retrofitting activities - evidence from a large-scale survey of German local authorities", Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 88, pp. Nolden, C. and Stua, M. (2017) "The Road to Paris", in From the Paris Agreement to a Low-Carbon Bretton Woods Rationale for the Establishment of a Mitigation Alliance. Springer. Nolden, C., Eyre, N. and Fawcett, T. (2021) "Energy demand policymaking attention in the context of a just transition to net zero: results of a UK survey", in ECEEE 2021 Summer Study proceedings. European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.

Dr Constance McDermott

Job Titles:
  • Land, Society & Governance Programme Lead
  • Research
Gueiros, C., Jodoin, S. and McDermott, C. (2023) "Jurisdictional approaches to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Brazil: Why do states adopt jurisdictional policies?", Land Use Policy, 127. Forsyth, T. and McDermott, C. (2022) "When climate justice goes wrong: Maladaptation and deep co-production in transformative environmental science and policy", Political Geography, 98.

Dr Curt Lamberth

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician

Dr Donghyun Lee

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Dr Emilie Vrain

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate
  • Senior Research Associate at the Environmental Change Institute, School
Dr Emilie Vrain is a Senior Research Associate at the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, and a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College. As a social scientist, her research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods, analysing factors which influence the adoption and use of digital low carbon innovations. Emilie currently works on the iDODDLE project funded by the European Research Council and is investigating the underlying mechanisms of digital daily life and the impacts on climate change. Prior to joining ECI, Emilie was based at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA, where she was working on the ‘Social Influence and disruptive Low Carbon Innovations' project (SILCI). Her work focused on social networks, communication behaviour and the role of social influences related to a range of consumer-facing low carbon innovations. Emilie has a PhD in sustainable agriculture from the University of East Anglia (UEA). Her thesis explored the role of farm advice in the adoption of water pollution mitigation measures amongst farmers in the UK. Emilie has also worked on multiple projects funded by Defra to inform UK agri-environmental policy and post-Brexit strategies for sustainable land management and farmer engagement. She has delivered a variety of policy reports on farmer behaviour change, farm advice, natural capital, and community collaborations, and led a national knowledge dissemination project as part of the Demonstration Test Catchments - a 10-year multi-disciplinary project which assessed the effectiveness of on-farm water pollution mitigation measures.

Dr Eric Mensah

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr Erika Berenguer

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
  • Senior Research Associate at the Ecosystems Lab
Erika Berenguer is a Senior Research Associate at the Ecosystems Lab and a Visiting Research Associate at Lancaster University. She works in the ECOFOR, BIORED and PELD-RAS projects. All of those are Brazil-UK consortiums looking at the impacts of human-induced disturbance, such as selective logging and understory fires, in ecosystems functions and processes in the Amazon. Her interests lie in developing a better understanding of how human-modified tropical forests function, assessing the resilience of these forests in the face of climate change. In addition, she is passionate about finding ways of effectively communicating scientific results to relevant stakeholders and policy makers.

Dr Faith Opio

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, ECM and WSPM

Dr Flurina Wartmann

Job Titles:
  • Researcher in Landscape Aesthetics

Dr Hazel Pettifor

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate
Wilson, C., Pettifor, H. and Chryssochoidis, G. (2018) "Quantitative modelling of why and how homeowners decide to renovate energy efficiently", APPLIED ENERGY, 212, pp. 1333-1344.

Dr Hester van Hensbergen

Job Titles:
  • Researcher for the TABLE Initiative

Dr Huanyuan Zhang-Zheng

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher Assistant

Dr Imma Oliveras

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher in Disturbance Ecology and Global Change

Dr Jake Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Golob, U., Kamin, T. and Barnes, J. (2022) "Knowledge and skills required to set up and operate clean energy communities", Energy, pp. 1-23. Hansen, P. and Barnes, J. (2021) "Distributed energy resources and energy communities: exploring a systems engineering view of an emerging phenomenon", NEWCOMERS working paper.

Dr James Painter

Job Titles:
  • Senior Teaching Associate

Dr Jasper Verschuur

Job Titles:
  • Global Infrastructure and Supply Chains Analyst

Dr Jesus Aguirre Gutierrez

Job Titles:
  • NERC Research Fellow

Dr Jimena Alvarez

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate in Resilient Systems & the Environment

Dr John Ingram

Job Titles:
  • Food Systems Programme Lead
Zurek, M., Garbutt, G., Lieb, T., Hess, T. and Ingram, J. (2020) Increasing the resilience of the UK fresh fruit and vegetable system to water-related risks Sustainability, 12(18). 7519.

Dr Juan Sabuco

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate in Resilience Analytics

Dr Katherine Sugar

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate in the Governance of Net Zero

Dr Labib Azzouz

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate in Transport and Energy Innovation

Dr Marco Springmann

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher in Environment and Health

Dr Mari Mulyani

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate at SoGE

Dr Marina Topouzi

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Dr Mark Hirons

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher
Mehrabi, Z., Delzeit, R., Ignaciuk, A. and Hirons, M. (2022) "Research priorities for global food security under extreme events", One Earth, 5(7), pp. 756-766. Hirons, M. (2021) "Governing natural climate solutions: prospects and pitfalls", Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 52, pp. 36-44.

Dr Martha Crockatt

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Martha has a background in ecology, with a BSc in Biology and a PhD in Fungal Ecology, both from Cardiff University. Since completing her PhD in 2008 Martha has slowly shifted her focus from ecology towards people and nature. This shift was initiated through ten years with environmental NGO Earthwatch Europe, a citizen science-focused organisation, where, among other projects, she co-managed a long term forest carbon cycling project, working extensively with citizen scientists from a range of backgrounds. Martha built on this experience while working with the Oxfordshire Treescape Project, an initiative to support community groups and land managers in nature recovery planning through opportunity mapping, and in her current role with the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery in which she is exploring equity of access to green space. Throughout her career Martha has focused on communication, being on the British Mycological Society's Education and Outreach Committee, teaching on Oxford University's Postgraduate Certificate in Ecological Survey Techniques course, giving talks at careers events, conferences and lab meetings, and running innovative workshops such as Fungal Ecology for Forest Ecologists and a workshop on using Lego Serious Play to generate innovative research collaborations. Martha has authored papers and reports reflecting the breadth of her experience and research interests, and continues to have an open attitude to exciting new research directions and opportunities. Martha's research interests are wide-ranging, but centre around people and nature. Martha has a general background in ecology, and expertise in fungal ecology, citizen science, forest carbon cycling, aspects of sustainable agriculture. This expertise is now being applied in understanding how we can "do" nature recovery so that benefits to people and nature are maximised, how we can engage communities in nature recovery efforts and equity of access to nature and green spaces.

Dr Martin Burgess

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Research Associate in Circular Economy, Digitalisation and Net - Zero Transitions
Martin works on CircEUlar, a European project across 10 Universities in six different countries, led by Dr Volker Krey at IIASA in Vienna. This will forecast total GHG emissions across Europe to 2050 based on flows of materials across buildings, industry and mobility. Martin is currently working on a study of digitalisation in the building industry to understand how digital technologies are likely to reduce the embodied or operational carbon of buildings through to 2050. Martin has recently completed a study about whether the impact of digital technologies can significantly influence the quality of recycling of plastics, steel and aluminium to reduce downcycling of these materials, consequently reducing the need to mine virgin metal and its sizeable associated emissions. Prior to this he worked for the University of Manchester on plastics recycling in the UK: specifically, on the changes required to systems to improve the rate of packaging recycling. The project worked from a premise that the rate would only improve if the public threw all plastics into one bin, implying that systems must sort the resulting mix. The project is best known by its moniker "One Bin to Rule Them All". After switching careers, Martin completed his PhD (The Implementation of Personal Carbon Accounts in the Uk) in Aberystwyth in 2019. He was an accountant and Finance Director in business for decades before deciding to do something more constructive!

Dr Matthias Wildemeersch

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate in Systemic Resilience

Dr Monika Zurek

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher
  • Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the Environmental Change Institute
Dr Monika Zurek is a titular associate professor and senior researcher at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford and a member of the ECI Food System Transformation Group. For more than 20 years she has worked on food systems change, environment and development interactions in research and international organisations as well as in the consulting and the philanthropic sector. Prior to joining ECI, Monika worked with Climate Focus, a consulting firm focusing on climate change mitigation and land use issues. Before that, she was part of the Agricultural Development Team of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation managing grants to improve the environmental sustainability of agricultural systems and risk management in agriculture. She also served as an economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and supported the Scenarios Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Monika started her career as a researcher at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), working on agricultural sustainability projects in Costa Rica and Mexico. She was also a lead author for various environmental assessments such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, AR4), the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD). Monika holds degrees from the University of Hohenheim (MSc equivalent/Diploma in agricultural biology) and Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany (PhD in agricultural economics). Monika is involved in, and leads on, a number of projects within the Food Systems Group at the ECI including co-leading the Foresight4Food (F4F) initiative (current projects are listed below). She also sits on the coordination team of the UK's cross-government Global Food Security Programme on the Resilience of the UK Food System Zurek, M., Hebinck, A. and Selomane, O. (2022) Climate change and the urgency to transform food systems Science, 376(6600): 1416-1421.

Dr Neven S. Fučkar

Job Titles:
  • Scientist
  • Senior Researcher
Dr Neven S. Fučkar is a climate scientist who focuses on dynamics, prediction, attribution and impacts of extreme events in a changing climate by using observations, reanalysis products, impact models, initialized predictions, and CMIP5/6 and weather/OpenIFS@home simulations. Furthermore, Neven's research interests encompass hydrological cycle, polar processes, interaction between the climate system and the human system affecting health, food production, water resources and markets, climate-related risk assessment and adaptation, and numerical, statistical and machine learning methods. From January to May 2021, Neven was a University of Oxford OPEN fellow working on the connection of climate variability and change with human health and food systems at the Climate Change and Health Group, Public Health England. Additionally, he has been awarded a COP26 Fellowship in Climate Risk by the COP26 Universities Network. Neven completed his PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, where he investigated large-scale ocean dynamics, hierarchy of models at different levels of complexity and the ocean's role in climate at NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Prior to joining the Environmental Change Institute, Neven worked at the University of Hawaii, USA, and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain, where he worked on a spectrum of research subjects: coupled climate dynamics and modelling, interaction of weather/climate with biosphere, sea ice and snow, paleoclimate, sub-seasonal to decadal predictions, downscaling, bias correction and forecast verification, climate variability and change, and extreme events.

Dr Nick Banks

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Local Energy Systems

Dr Nicola Ranger

Job Titles:
  • Resilience and Development Programme Lead and Senior Researcher

Dr Nicola Stevens

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher

Dr Pam Berry

Job Titles:
  • Emerita Research Fellow

Dr Peter Barbrook-Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Lecturer in the Economics of Environmental Change

Dr Robert Corrie

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Robert Dunford

Job Titles:
  • College Lecturer

Dr Saher Hasnain

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr Sam Hampton

Job Titles:
  • Acting Energy Programme Deputy Lead

Dr Samira Barzin

Job Titles:
  • Geospatial Economic Analyst

Dr Sarah Darby

Job Titles:
  • Emerita Research Fellow

Dr Sarah Higginson

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Dr Selam Kidane Abebe

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow in Net Zero Law

Dr Steven Lord

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher Food System Economics

Dr Stuart Jenkins

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow on Net Zero for the Fossil Fuel Sector

Dr Tamsin Blaxter

Job Titles:
  • Researcher, Table

Dr Tara Garnett

Job Titles:
  • Table Leader

Dr Tina Fawcett

Job Titles:
  • Acting Energy Programme Lead and Associate Professor

Dr Tom Harwood

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Dr Yee Van Fan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher in Digitalisation, Circular Economy and Net Zero

Dr Yekatherina Bobrova

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate in Energy Demand Reduction Policy

Dr Yue Li

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Dr. Raghav Pant

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate
  • Senior Research Associate at the Environmental Change Institute, University
Dr. Raghav Pant is a Senior Research Associate at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. He holds a Bachelors in Technology in Civil Engineering for Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, a MSc in Civil and Environment Engineering from Princeton University, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering for University of Oklahoma. Dr. Pant is associated with the Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (OPSIS), and has led risk and resilience analysis research teams as part of the EPSRC funded Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium. His analysis of failure criticality of Great Britain's national infrastructure networks, undertaken in collaboration with Infrastructure UK in HM Treasury was the first piece of evidence instrumental in moving the policy thinking from silo-sectored to a multi-sector and cross-sector one. He led the first evidence-based systems analysis of interdependent network vulnerabilities of UK's interconnected networks to support the National Infrastructure Commission's recommendations of a new resilience framework in UK. His studies in Argentina, East Africa and Vietnam have produced first-of-their-kind regional-scale multi-modal transport network risks and resilience to evaluate and prioritize climate adaptation investments. He is also leading on-going work on the development of a first Systemic Risk Assessment Tool (SRAT) in Jamaica Dr Pant has worked with a range of organisations within UK and globally such as World Bank, Global Centre for Adaptation, Department for Transport, National Grid, Network Rail, JBA Group, ARUP, Scottish Water, HR Wallingford, CH2M. He held and holds PI and Co-I roles in UKRI funded project to plan for resilience of interdependent infrastructure networks exposed to multi-hazard impacts and EU H2020 funded project Multi-hazard Infrastructure Risk Assessment for Climate Adaptation His research paper on vulnerability assessment of Great Britain's railway infrastructure was awarded the 2016 Lloyds Science of Risk Prize in Systems Modelling while another paper in co-authorship was runner-up at the 2021 Lloyds Science of Risk Prize in the cyber category He was also Highly Commended in the Early Career category of the Oxford University's Vice-Chancellor Innovation Awards 2020 for his work on New modelling tools to help governments and decisions makers minimise the risks from infrastructure failures He has been given the Award for Academic Excellence within the School of Geography and Environment (SoGE) in Oxford in 2017 and 2022. Ilalokhoin, O., Pant, R. and Hall, J. (2022) "A multi-track rail model for estimating journey impacts from extreme weather events: a case study of Great Britain's rail network", International Journal of Rail Transportation, 10(2), pp. 133-158.

Fred Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Software Engineer

Heather Waller

Job Titles:
  • Oxford Climate Research Network ( OCRN ) Coordinator and Climate Research Programme Administrator

Ian Curtis

Job Titles:
  • Development Officer

Jacquelyn Turner

Job Titles:
  • Senior Communications and Engagement Officer, Table

Jane Applegarth

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant to the Ecosystems Programme

Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen

Job Titles:
  • Fellow

Jing Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Researcher in Food System Health, Environmental and Enterprise Metrics

John Boardman

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Kay Jenkinson

Job Titles:
  • Knowledge Exchange Officer

Kaya Axelsson

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow and Head of Policy and Partnerships at Oxford Net Zero

Lisa Didier

Job Titles:
  • Engagement Officer

Marcus Horril

Job Titles:
  • Research and Communications Officer

Mariana Gaytan Camarillo

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Matilda Becker

Job Titles:
  • Strategic Partnerships Manager, Oxford Net Zero

Maureen Agnew

Job Titles:
  • Researcher in Low - Carbon Lifestyles and Digitalisation

Polly Nuttgens

Job Titles:
  • Administrator - Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery

Prof Christian Brand

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Transport, Energy and Environment

Roger Sykes

Job Titles:
  • Food Systems Programme Manager

Rosina Borrelli

Job Titles:
  • IFSTAL Workplace Liaison Officer

Ruth Mattock

Job Titles:
  • Research and Communications Officer

Shaun Solomon

Job Titles:
  • Research Programmer and Data Analyst for Food System Economic Cost Modelling at the School of Geography
Shaun is a Research Programmer and Data Analyst for Food System Economic Cost Modelling at the School of Geography and the Environment. He is currently involved with the FOODCoST project that aims to provide a set of improved analytical instruments to evaluate the externalities associated with a transition to more sustainable food systems.

Sophie Hockley

Job Titles:
  • Programme Manager, Table

Stephen Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Centre Manager, Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery

Tim Fowler

Job Titles:
  • Programme Manager
Tim Fowler is a Programme Manager in the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. Tim works with the Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (OPSIS). OPSIS is a dynamic and innovative research team, with important links into government, industry and the international academic community. OPSIS is widely regarded for its innovative contributions in systems modelling, risk analysis and infrastructure policy. He is responsible for managing the administration and finances of a portfolio of over 15 research grants. His role includes the monitoring of progress and deliverables, reporting and communications of research teams located in different universities and agencies. He also manages relationships and contracts with a wide range of stakeholders and consultants. He holds an MSc in Land and Water Management from Cranfield University and a BSc in Environmental Science from Plymouth University. He has been working in various departments in the University since 2018. Before then, he worked in the Third Sector (latterly with Oxfam GB in the UK and WaterAid in Uganda). He has worked long-term in five African countries and short-term in numerous others across the globe.

Tom Russell

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Software Engineer

Trisha Gopalakrishna

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Uttara Narayan

Job Titles:
  • Researcher in Energy Demand and Racial Justice

Vicki Sperrey

Job Titles:
  • Communications Manager
  • Communications Officer
  • for Media and Press Enquiries