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Topics

• Soil mechanics and change
• Ice growth impacts on soil properties
• Quaternary geology and landforms
• Sea level change
• Engineering materials

Research supervision

Megs Watfa (2md supervisor) - PhD in progress - Igneous petrological evaluation of mantle/crustal evolution

Ammar Alhalaki - PhD in progress - Behaviour of reinforced alkali-activated concrete beams under long-term loading

Amy Flynn (1st supervisor) - PhD 2022 - Evaluation of superficial hollows in the London Basin.

Alaa Al-Isawi (1st supervisor) - PhD 2021 - Soil-Structure Interaction of High-Rise Building resting on clay Soil

Hassan Ahmad (2nd supervisor) - PhD 2021 - Novel composite materials

Georgios Chatzopoulos (1st supervisor) - PhD 2019- Geodynamic and Seismological Investigation of the South Hellenic Arc Structure

Fauzi Saeed (2nd supervisor) - PhD 2019 - Fundamental study to quantify the combined interaction of tyre-water-pavement on asphalt surface performance

Assel Sarembayeva (1st supervisor) - PhD 2017 - Evaluation of de-icing chemicals and moisture mass transfer in freezing soils.

Samantha Bromfield (external supervisor) - PhD 2017 - Assessing the genesis of Relict Periglacial Ramparted Depressions (RDRDs) by characterising internal structures macroscopically and microscopically. (University of Brighton)

Ghadeer Alfandi (2nd supervisor) - PhD 2106 - Identification and initial risk assessment of housing projects in Kuwait

Alaeddin Ghamsi (2nd supervisor) - PhD 2016 - Assessment of the impact of contract type on project success in Libya

Buba Apagu (2nd supervisor) - PhD 2014 - Assessment and exploitation of groundwater resources from shallow wells, Nigeria

Nihad Salih (1st Supervisor) - PhD 2013 - Stability of dams on problematic substrates

Dasong Dai (2nd Supervisor) - PhD 2012 - Development of novel construction materials using nano technology

Despina Kalisperi (2nd Supervisor) - PhD 2010 - Geophysical assessment of salinization of a coastal aquifer, Crete.

Charlotte Miller (2nd Supervisor) - MPhil 2010 - Sedimentary record of high magnitude events in the Sea of Oman

Margarita Moisidi (2nd Supervisor) - PhD 2010 - Geophysical assessment of active faults, western Crete, Greece.

Andy Moir (2nd Supervisor) - PhD 2008 - The Dendroclimatology of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in the peatlands of Northern Scotland

Phillip Teasdale (1st Supervisor) - PhD 2005 - The Late Holocene evolution of coastal wetlands in Argyll, Western Scotland (a radiometric dating and geochemical study)

Simon Turner (1st Supervisor) - PhD 2000 - High resolution reconstruction of microtidal wetlands, south east Sicily, over the last 100 years.