York researchers
We work with a wide range of researchers, institutes and organisations across many disciplines at the University of York.
- Dr Michelle Alexander Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology (Bioarchaeology; Diets)
- Dr Daryl Stump Lecturer (Applied Archaeology; Sustainable Agriculture; Indigenous Knowledge; Traditional Knowledge)
- Professor Ian Bancroft CNAP Chair of Plant Genomics (Food Security; Biotechnology)
- Dr Colin Beale Senior Lecturer (Savannah Ecology; Conservation Biology; Spatial Ecology; Bayesian Analysis)
- Professor Neil Bruce CNAP Chair in Biotechnology (Environmental Biotechnology; Waste; Biocatalysis; Microbial Biochemistry)
- Dr James Chong Professor (Anaerobic digestion; Biogas; Waste)
- Dr Kanchon Dasmahapatra Senior Lecturer (Ecology; Evolution; Butterflies)
- Professor Calvin Dytham Professor (Habitat Destruction; Biological Invasions; Ecological Modelling; Species Extinctions)
- Professor Ian Graham Director of BioYork and Weston Chair of Biochemical Genetics (Plant Biology; Biochemical Genetics; Agricultural Biotechnology; Medicinal Crops; Synthetic Biology)
- Dr Adam Hejnowicz Postdoctoral Research Associate (Social-ecological Systems; Environmental Governance; Public Policy; Water-energy-food Nexus; Sustainability; Agriculture; Complex Systems)
- Dr Thorunn Helgason Senior Lecturer (Soil; Agricultural Landscapes; Ecology; Species Resilience)
- Professor Jane Hill Professor, Deputy Head of Department (Habitat Fragmentation; Tropical Ecology; Butterflies; Ecological Impacts of Climate Change)
- Dr Callum MacGregor Postdoctoral Research Associate (Entomology; Evolutionary Ecology; Environmental Change)
- Dr James Moir Professor (Microbial Respiration and Electron Transport; Soil; Water Quality; Nitric Oxide Biology)
- Dr Michael Plevin Senior Lecturer (Proteins; Nucleic Acids)
- Dr Kelly Redeker Lecturer (Soil-plant-atmosphere Systems; Climate Change Issues)
- Dr Sarah Scriven Research Associate (Conservation; Habitat Fragmentation; Tropical Ecology)
- Dr James Stockdale Knowledge Exchange Fellow (Sustainable Food Systems; Biogeochemical Cycling in Soils and Plants; Agriculture)
- Professor Chris Thomas Professor (Climate Change Impacts on Ecology; Conservation; Butterfly Ecology; Biodiversity)
- Dr Eleanor Warren-Thomas PDRA in Tropical Peatland Ecology (Tropical Ecology; Habitat Fragmentation; Conservation)
Additional organisations
- Professor Lucy Carpenter Professor, Deputy Head of Department (Ocean-atmospheric Interactions; Ozone Photochemistry)
- Professor Kevin Cowtan Professor (Climate Science; Global Warming)
- Professor James Clark Professor (Green Chemistry; Waste Minimisation; Bioeconomy)
- Dr Terry Dillon Lecturer (Atmospheric Chemistry; Clean Air)
- Professor Mathew Evans Professor (Atmospheric/Ocean Chemistry; Air Pollution)
- Dr Jaqueline Hamilton Reader (Atmospheric Chemistry; Analytical Chemistry; Aerosol science)
- Dr James Lee Professor (Air Pollution; Clean Air)
- Professor Alistair Lewis Director of NCAS (Atmospheric Science; Global Air Pollution; Chemical Detection Technologies; Transport and Industrial Emissions)
- Dr Avtar Matharu Senior Lecturer (Unavoidable Food Supply Chain Wastes; Sustainable Supply Chains; Circular Economy)
- Dr Ruth Purvis Research Fellow (Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases; Air Quality; Air Pollution)
- Dr Andrew Rickard NCAS Research Scientist (Air Pollution; Atmospheric Chemistry)
- Professor Jane Thomas-Oates Professor (Soil; AMR)
Additional organisations
- Professor James Austin Professor (Building new high-performance computer systems; Searching large volumes of data using computers)
- Dr Iain Bate Reader (Real-time systems; Embedded systems; Wireless sensor networks)
- Professor Peter Cowling Anniversary Professor (Gaming; Datasets)
- Dr Sebastian Deterding Reader/senior research fellow in digital creativity (Gaming; Citizen Science)
- Professor Richard Paige Professor (Software engineering; Model-driven engineering; Verification and validation of systems)
- Dr Helen Petrie Professor (Human computer interaction; Usability, user experience; Psychology of new technologies)
- Dr Christopher Power Senior Lecturer (Gaming; Mobility and well-being)
Additional organisations
- Dr Bipasa Datta Lecturer (Economics of Climate Change and related environmental issues)
- Dr Giacomo de Luca Senior Lecturer (Conflict; Institutions; Political Economy; Social Capital; Crime)
- Dr David Chesmore Senior Lecturer (Bioacoustics; Biodiversity Assessment; Signal Processing: Audio; Signal Processing: Image, Instrumentation (Environmental))
- Dr Steven Johnson Reader (Biomolecular Electronics; Nanofabrication)
- Dr Paul Mitchell Reader (Wireless Communications; Underwater Network; Traffic Modelling)
- Professor Damian Murphy Professor (Acoustic Environments, Acoustic Modelling, Music Synthesis, Spatial Audio)
- Dr Andrew Pomfret Senior Lecturer (Avionics; Cognitive Networking; Control Engineering; Multi-Agent Systems)
Additional organisations
- Professor Alistair Boxall Professor (Pollution (Pharmaceuticals, Nanomaterials, Polymers, Degradates))
- Dr Nicola Carslaw Reader (Atmospheric Pollution; Atmospheric Chemistry; Air Quality Issues; Indoor Air Pollution)
- Dr Lisa Emberson Director of SEI York (Air Pollution; Climate Change; Land Use Change)
- Dr Richard Friend Lecturer (International Development; Natural Resource Governance; Water Resources, Fisheries and Rural Livelihoods; Urbanisation; Climate Change, Resilience and Transformation)
- Professor Roland Gehrels Professor (Sea-level change)
- Professor Mark Hodson Professor (Soils)
- Dr Colin McClean Senior Lecturer (Geographical information systems (GIS))
- Dr Samarthia Thankappan Senior Lecturer (Sustainability, Policy and Governance; Agri-food and Automotives)
- Dr Sylvia Toet Senior Lecturer (Greenhouse Gas Emissions)
- Professor Piran White Professor (Ecology and Management of Wildlife Populations; Economics of Wildlife Management; Wildlife Diseases)
- Dr Rob Marchant Professor (Environmental Change; Tropical Vegetation; Biogeography, Ecology; Palaeoecology; Ecosystem Modelling)
- Annemarieke de Bruin Research Assistant (Food Systems; Agriculture; Water Management)
- Howard Cambridge Research Associate and Communications (GIS and remote sensing for environmental applications; Aviation and the environment; Internet communication and technology)
- Dr Steve Cinderby Senior Researcher Co-leader SEI Transforming Governance research theme (Participatory GIS; Urban Health; Creative Methods; Scenarios; Behaviour Change)
- Dr Simon Croft Research Associate (Food Systems; Global Trade; Supply Chains)
- Dr Alison Dyke Community Scientist (Sustainable Communities; Citizen Science)
- Dr Jon Ensor Senior Research Fellow (Food Systems Resilience; Climate Change)
- Dr Jonathan Green Research Fellow (Supply Chains; Food Systems; Global Trade)
- Dr Andreas Heinemeyer Senior Research Fellow (Soil; Land Management)
- Dr Corrado Topi Senior Research Associate (Circular Economy; Supply Chains)
- Dr Harry Vallack Senior Research Associate (Air pollutant emissions inventory compilation and capacity building; Development of tools for modelling air pollutant emissions and their impacts on health, crops and climate; Soil carbon dynamics)
- Dr Chris West Research Fellow (Food Systems; Supply Chains)
- Sarah West Research Fellow (Citizen Science; Sustainable Communities)
- Dr Pam Hanley Research Fellow (Science Education Research; Maths and Literacy Interventions; Use of Mixed Methods)
- Professor Karen Bloor Professor, RTC: Health & Wellbeing (Economics of Health Policy; Labour Markets and Health)
- Professor Tim Doran Professor-Public Health (Impacts of Health and Social Policies on Health Inequalities)
- Dr Amanda Mason-Jones Senior Lecturer (Child and Adolescent Public Health; School-based Interventions; Multi-media and Creative Expressions of Research Finding/Public Engagement)
- Professor Kate Pickett Professor, RTC: Justice & Equality (Epidemiology; Health Inequalities; Social Determinants of Health)
- Madeleine Power Research Fellow (Food Security; Income Inequality and Health)
- Dr Jo Rose Lecturer in Humanitarian Response, Programme Leader of the MSc in International Humanitarian Affairs (practice and Policy on Humanitarian Interventions in Disasters; Waste)
- Professor Henrice Altink Co-Director IGDC (Caribbean; History; Inequality; Environment)
- Dr David Clayton Senior Lecturer (British-Chinese Economic and Political Relations; Chinese and British Business History)
- Dr Mark Jenner Reader (History of Cleanliness and Water Supply; History of Medicine and Public Health 16th-19th century; Early Modern English History - 16th-18th Century Especially Social and Cultural History)
- Professor Sarah Rees Jones Professor (Medieval Social History, Both Urban and Rural, Male and Female; Medieval Social Ideals (e.g. utopias); Medieval Towns (especially York), Including Archaeological, Cultural and Political Aspects)
- Professor Stuart Bell Dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences (Legal Aspects of Carbon Capture)
Additional organisations
- Professor Peter Ball Professor in Operations Management (Circular Economy; Supply Chains; Operations Management; Sustainable Manufacturing and Eco-Efficiency; Lean Operations)
- Professor Bill Cooke Professor - Strategy (Management and International Development; Business and Management History; Management in Brazil, Management Consultancy)
- Professor Bob Doherty Principal Investigator IKnowFood and Chair of AgriFood at York (Food Systems; Supply Chains; Fair Trade and Social Enterprise)
- Dr Fernando Fastoso Senior Lecturer - Marketing (Sustainable Consumption)
- Professor Jeff Jia Chair Professor of Supply Chain Management (Food Policy; Supply Chains)
- Dr Hector Gonzalez Jimenez Lecturer in Marketing (Materialism; Life Cycle)
- Professor Mark Freeman Dean of The York Management School (Climate Change and Environmental Policy)
- Patricia Prado Doctoral Research Associate (Supply Chains; Environmental Policy; Eco-Innovation Management and Policies)
- Dr Jacco Thijssen Professor of Mathematical Finance (Micro-economics; Game Theory; Mathematical Economics; Applied Probability Theory)
- Dr Mike Tse Senior Lecturer (Supply Chain Food Fraud; Supply Chain Management)
- Professor Sultan Barakat Professor (Resettlement of Refugees; Humanitarian Assistance in Area Conflict; Post-War Reconstruction Programming and Planning)
- Professor Neil Carter Head Of Department (Climate Politics; Environmental Policy)
- Professor Jean Grugel Director IGDC (Governance; Human rights; Political Economy; Democracy; Citizenship)
- Professor Tony Heron Professor (Food Systems; Supply Chains; Sustainable Diets)
- Dr Simon Parker Senior Lecturer (Cities Urban Studies Refugee and Asylum Studies)
Additional organisations
- Professor Jun Yuan Professor (Nanophysics and Nanomaterials; Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy; Aberration-Free Electron Microscopy)
- Dr Nik Brown Professor (Public and Expert Understanding of Science; Sociology of Biotechnology; Animals in Medicine; AMR)
- Paul Chappell Research Associate (Sociology of Food, Health, and Research Methods)
- Dr Daryl Martin Senior Lecturer (AMR; Health and Architecture)
- Dr Darren Reed Senior Lecturer (Data Management; Design and Use of Creative Digital Technologies)
Additional organisations
- Dr Katia Attuyer Research Fellow (Social Geography; Urban Policies)
- Dr Mark Bevan Senior Research Fellow (Rural Housing; Park Homes/Mobile Homes)
- Dr Karen Croucher Research Fellow (Health and Neighbourhood; Housing Options and Aspirations of Older People)
- Deborah Quilgars Senior Research Fellow (Homelessness and Supported Housing; Young People and Housing; Housing Services for Veterans)
- Dr Carolyn Snell Senior lecturer (Fuel Poverty; Energy Policy; Food Aid; Sustainable Development; Environmental Policy)
- Professor Rebecca Tunstall Professor (Social Housing; Neighbourhoods; Inequality)
- Dr Alison Wallace Research Fellow (Homeownership)