Water Research Group members

The Water Group is led by
Dr Ania EscuderoResearch Fellow (Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Management)
Group members
Dr Karin HelwigSenior Lecturer (Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Management)
Dr Colin HunterResearch Fellow (Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Management)
Professor JiaQian JiangDepartment of Civil Engineering and Environmental Management
Professor Ole PahlDepartment of Civil Engineering and Environmental Management
Kaitlin RamsayLecturer (Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Management)
Dr Joanne RobertsResearch Fellow (Department of Chemical Science)
Dr Xinhua ShuReader (Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
Dr Janice SpencerLecturer (Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
Research Students

Julze is a health promotion and policy specialist with interest in the intersection of human health and natural/built environments. He is a Scottish Governement Hydro Nation scholar investigating the adoption of blue-green prescribing in Scotland using behaviour change models and implementation science.

Rahma’s study aims to investigate and identify cellulolytic bacteria found in agriculture waste in a state of anaerobic digestion in order to improve the degradability of wastes with a high cellulose content.

Gabriele is working on a green solution to reduce harmful antibiotics in wastewater by using microalgae. His project is focused on understanding the processes occurring in microalgae while potentially removing the most worrying antibiotics commonly found in wastewater.

Jamie’s project investigates the chemical fate and behaviour of antibiotics in urban river environments using fugacity modelling approaches and utilising Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Samplers (POCIS) for monitoring purposes to assess spatial behaviour.

The general focus of William’s PhD project is to investigate the impact of climate change on water accessibility and quality in rural areas in Nigeria and to understand the coping mechanism used by rural people to adapt.