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Post-doctoral Fellows (Leeds)
JenineJenine McCutcheon

Project Title: 
Understanding the Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet (Pariculates WP)
Funding : UK-Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Grant: Black and Bloom
Co-supervised by Jim McQuaid (Leeds)
Start date: Jan 2017

PhD Students (Leeds)
x Maria del Pilar Ramirez Garcia
CO2-react web page

Project title: Carbonate crystallization kinetics and mechanisms
Funding body: FP7 Marie Curie Training Network - CO2-React - Geologic Carbon Storage
Co-supervised by Robert Newton (Leeds)
Start date: February 2014

Former Group members in Leeds:

Postdoctoral fellows:

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Adriana Matamoros Veloza Postdoc in my group until May 2016 working on FeS compunds; currently postdoctoral fellow at School of Mech Eng at the University of Leeds  


Tomasz M. Stawsky worked in Leeds as a EU Marie Curie Fellow between 2012 and 2015; currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam.


Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco worked in Leeds as a EU Marie Curie Fellow between 2007 and 2012; now an Assistant Professor at the at the NanoGeoScience Centre at the University of Copenhagen

Zongbo Shi worked in Leeds on a NERC grant between 2007 and 2011 on: Iron in Saharan dust and links to atmospheric processing; he is now a Birmingham University Fellow/NERC Research Fellow  at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham

Teresa Roncal-Herrero worked in Leeds as a EU Marie Curie Fellow
(part of  PhD and postdoc); currently postdoc at the University of York;

Steeve Bonneville worked on the UK NERC Weathering Consortium project and focused on Nanoscale interactions in fungal weathering processes (in Leeds between 2006-2010); now a Lecturer at the Departement des Sciences de la Terre et de l’Environnement at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles Belgium


Imad Ahmed worked on Green Rust; (2006-2009) now a postdoctoral fellow at Lancaster University in the Aquatic Chemistry and Environmental Radioactivity Group


Jenny Rivas
worked on Iron oxide stability and transformation (2005 - 2007); now Faculty Research Staff Development Officer in the School of Earth and Environment in Leeds;
 


Stefan Hunger worked on
Greigite formation kinetics (in Leeds between 2003 and 2006); he is a teacher in Germany


Konstantin Tarasov worked on The stability of Jarosite (in Leeds in 2003); now at the Institute of Solid State Chemistry & Mechanochemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia

 

Nathan Yee worked on Biogenic silicification (2001 and 2003); now Associate Professor at Rutgers University, USA


PhD Students:



Andrew Bennett
: (PhD in Leeds: 2001 - 2005); working at STFC Innovations.


Lois Davidson
: (PhD in Leeds: 2003-2007; Environmental Consultant in Australia);

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Dominique Tobler (PhD in Leeds: 2005 - 2008; EPSRC Postdoc in Glasgow and now Research Fellow at the NanoGeoScience Centre at the University of Copenhagen)




Marek Stibal
(PhD in Bristol; partly co-supervised in Leeds; at present working for The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland




Alexandra Xylouri (PhD in Leeds; 2005-2009); at present teacher in Greece


Hong Phuc Vu
(PhD in Leeds; 2006-2010; now a McKenzie Fellow at Melbourne University in the Geobiology lab of John Moreau)


Loredana Brinza (PhD in Leeds; 2005-2010; at present Postdoctoral research associate at station I 18 at Diamond Light Source)
Cristina Moisescu (PhD at the Institute of Biology at the Romanian Academy of Sciences; exchange student in Leeds between 2007-2010; at present staff member at the Institute of Biology at the Romanian Academy of Sciences)


Gabriella Kakonyi (PhD in Leeds; 2006-2011; now Research Associate at the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Sheffield)


Verity Payne (PhD in Leeds; 2006-2011; at present Science Writer for Carbon Brief)
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Adriana Matamoros Veloza (PhD in Leeds; 2006-2012) currently postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leeds  

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Pieter Bots (PhD in Leeds; 2008-2012) currently Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Manchester working on the BIG_RAD project

Andy
Andy Bray (PhD in Leeds; 2003-2014) currently Postdoctoral Fellow at School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds


Stefanie Lutz (PhD in Leeds 2012-2015) currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam.


Daniela Meier  (PhD in Leeds 2012-2016) worked on Silica precipitation under geothermal conditions- currently traveling the world



Taher Rabizadeh (PhD in Leeds 2013-2016) worked on Gypsum crystallization.



 
Joshua Blacker (PhD in Leeds 2013-2018) worked on Arctic soils.


Former Technical Staff


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Analytical Research Fellow in charge of the AAS in the Cohen Laboratory Suite (2011-2013)

Geochemical Research Support Assistant (2011-2012)
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Microbiological Research Support Assistant (2011-2012)

BenBen Wilcock


Microbiological Research Support Assistant (2012-2013)

Former Visiting Fellows






 

Kleopatra Detsi (in Leeds in 2007; PhD at the Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Teresa Roncal Herrero (in Leeds in 2008-2009; PhD at University Paul Sabatier/CNRS, Toulouse, France);

Karina Krarup Sand
(in Leeds in 2009; PhD at the Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen, Denmark);

Cristina Moisescu
(in Leeds for ~ 15 months between 2007 and 2009; PhD at the Romanian Academy of Sciences and University of Leeds)


Former MSc Students

2008-2009:     Andrew Bray (currently PhD in Leeds- see above).
2004-2005:     Vu Hong Phuc (PhD in Leeds see above)

2003-2004:      (a) Helen Cope (PhD at Edinburgh University)
                        (b) Catriona Neat (now consultant at ARUP)
                         (c) Chris Adams (PhD at the University of East Anglia)

2002-2003:      (a) Belinda Troup, Environmental Consultant
                        (b) Thu Hien Nguyen (PhD, Chemistry Leeds)

2001-2002:      Paul Craddock (PhD at MIT/WHOI)

2000-2001:      (a) David Worton (PhD at University of East Anglia),
                         (b) Katherine Manser,
                         (c) Shaun Lavis (PhD at University of Cardiff)

1999-2000:     Catherine Ashton, Maggie Gorringe (PhD in Nottingham),
                       Pavel Goudochnikov (PhD in Institute for Materials Research, Leeds)
                       Iain Pitcairn (PhD at Southampton).

Research Students: Ken Amor (2002) - PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford