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Name | Topic | Supervisors | Grant Body | |
| Abdulkadir Abdulkadir | Magmatic evolution and rare earth element enrichment of the Loch Borralan carbonatite complex in Northwest Highlands, Scotland: An integrated mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic study . | Prof Hilary Downes, Dr Sudeshna Basu-Gupta & Dr Andy Beard | ||
| Ry Affleck | Prof Lidunka Vočadlo | |||
| Alex Austin | Ceramic property variation as a function of water corrosion at interfaces | Katharina Marquardt (ICL), Prof David Dobson & Dr Andy Thomson | CDT in Advanced Characterisation of Materials | |
| Nicholas Backhouse | Lab based seismic velocity measurements of antigorite and phase A at upper mantle conditions. | Dr Andy Thomson, Craig Wilson (AWE) & Prof John Brodholt | Impact Studentship | |
| Alessia Barbieri | Identifying controls on the thickness and geometallurgy of the Flatreef PGE deposit, Turfspruit farm, Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. | Dr Katie McFall, Prof Richard Herrington (NHM), Dr Andrew Thomson, Prof Iain McDonald (Cardiff). | NERC - DTP | |
| Samantha Beeston | The evolution and role of pneumaticity in the development of gigantism in sauropod dinosaurs. | Prof Phil Mannion, Prof Paul Upchurch | UCL Research Excellence Scholarship | |
| Shambhu Bhandari Sharma | Accurate prediction of the melting curves of alloys with quantum molecular dynamics. | Prof Dario Alfe | AWE-EPSRC | |
| Ewan Bodenham | Phylogenetic Relationships and Ecomorphological Diversification of Early Crocodylomorphs. | Prof Phil Mannion, Prof Paul Upchurch, Susannah Maidment (NHM) | NERC - DTP | |
| Jasmin Bower | Paleostress and fluid flow during porphyry copper formation in the western USA. | Dr Katie McFall & Dr Francis Cooper | NERC - TARGET | |
| Katie Brown | Testing the interactions between chemical weathering and glaciation cycles using novel isotope tracers. | Dr David Wilson & Dr Heather Ford (QMUL) | NERC - DTP | |
| Paul Burke | Using computed tomography to investigate gavialoid neuroanatomy to aid crocodylian phylogeny. | Prof Phil Mannion & Dr Ryan Felice | Self-funded | |
| Weibin Chen | Integrated Approach to Summer Sea Ice Analysis and Uncertainty Estimation through AI and Advanced Statistical Techniques. | Dr M. Tsamados, Prof J. Stroeve, Dr R. Willatt, Prof M. Deisenroth | ESA funding/Self-funding | |
| Lauren Cox | Understanding melt distribution beneath volcanoes using experimental and seismic techniques. | Dr James Hammond, Prof David Dobson & Dr Andy Thomson | NERC - DTP | |
| Alistair Duffey | Could high latitude geoengineering refreeze the arctic? | Dr Peter Irvine, Prof Jullienne Stroeve & Dr Michel Tsamados | NERC - DTP | |
| Matteo Desiderio | The Seismic Signals of the Heterogeneous Earth Mantle. | Dr Maxim Ballmer & Prof Ana Ferreira | NERC - DTP | |
| Yifan Du | Chemical Weathering Response of New Guinea to Orbital Scale Climate Variability. | Prof Peter Clift | Royal Society | |
| Lennart Grimm | Signals of landscape transience in detrital cosmogenic nuclides. | Dr Byron Adams | Royal Society | |
| Zixiao Guo | Tracing anthropogenic aerosol emissions by Zn and Pb isotopes in south-east England. | Dr Susan Little | self - funded | |
| Joel Heath | The role of tectonics and environment on the distribution of dinosaur diversity. | Prof Phil Mannion & Prof Paul Upchurch | NERC - DTP | |
| Yue He (Maisie) | The prospect of carbon capture, utilisation and storage in China to reduce CO2 emissions: Environmental impacts and related risks. | Dr Sudeshna Basu-Gupta & Prof Dominic Papineau | self - funded | |
| Katrina Harris | High Resolution Surface Wave Tomography beneath the Macaronesian Archipelagos. | Prof Ana Ferreira | ERC | |
| Zarina Hewett | North Atlantic circulation during past abrupt climate events in the Holocene. | Prof. David Thornalley (Geography) and Dr David Wilson | NERC - DTP | |
| Ashraf Khan | tbc | Dr Susan Little & Dr Daniel Schillereff (KCL) | NERC - DTP | |
| Mohamed Ismail | The initial condition for the long-term evolution of terrestrial planets. | Dr Maxim Ballmer & Dr Andy Thomson | Self-funded | |
| Sarah Jamison-Todd | The influence of large vertebrate nekton falls on marine biodiversity and evolution. | Prof Paul Upchurch & Prof Phil Mannion | self-funded | |
| Jocelyn Japnanto | Prof Ana Ferreira | EPSRC | ||
| Thomas Johnson | Fusion of CryoSat-2, ICESat-2, and MISR remote sensing data for sea ice surface characterisation. | Dr Michel Tsamados, Prof Julienne Stroeve & Prof Jan-Peter Muller | ||
| Shumin Liu | The external and internal anatomy of the Middle Jurassic Chinese diplodocoid Lingwulong shenqi and its implications for the palaeobiology and palaeoecology of sauropod dinosaurs | Prof Phil Mannion, Prof Paul Upchurch & Prof Xing Xu (IVPP, China) | China Council - UCL Scholarship | |
| Sachin Lock | Integrating past archives of insular crocodylians into diversity baselines and future projections. | Prof Phil Mannion & Dr Selina Brace (NHM). | NERC - DTP | |
| Jack Lovegrowe | Early evolutionary history of Dinosauria. | Dr Paul Barrett and Prof Paul Upchurch | NERC - DTP | |
| Keyu Lu | The importance of micronutrient cycling in glaciated environments for the global carbon cycle – a case study from Greenland | Dr Susan Little & Dr David Wilson Prof Tina van de Flierdt (Imperial College) | China Council - UCL Scholarship | |
| Ziqi Ma (Maggie) | New Insights into Global Plume Buoyancy and Heat Fluxes from Numerical Models of Plume-Lithosphere Interaction. | Dr Maxim Ballmer | ||
| Robert Mansergh | Dinosaur Biogeography and the Implications of Fossil Record Bias. | Prof. Paul Upchurch & Dr. Susannah Maidment (Natural History Museum). | NERC - DTP | |
| Becky McGanity-Smith | Prof Peter Clift | |||
| Cassius Morrison | The palaeoneurology and palaeoecology of British theropod dinosaurs: behavioural and phylogenetic implications. | Prof Phil Mannion & Paul Barrett (NHM) | Self-funded | |
| Robyn Mottram | Investigating multiscale characterisation of porosity and permeability of Hellisheiði CO2 reservoir, Iceland to quantify storage capacity. | Prof Tom Mitchell & Dr Robin Armstrong (NHM) | NERC - DTP | |
| Wasim Mustafa | Implications of variable initial water content for mobilising magmatic metals in arc volcanoes. | Dr Emma Nicholson & Chiara Petrone, NHM | NERC - DTP | |
| Connor Nelson | Investigating the Arctic sea ice snowpack and modelling its interaction with microwave radiation. | Prof Julienne Stroeve & Dr Michel Tsamados | NERC - DTP | |
| Cecily Nicholl | The Evolution and Biogeographic History of Notosuchian Crocodylomorphs. | Prof Philip Mannion | Royal Society | |
| Bethany Pittard | Using past archives to constrain baselines in avian biodiversity. | Prof Philip Mannion and Dr Ryan Felice | Royal Society | |
| Billy Rayner | X-ray tomography of geological materials at extreme conditions. | Dr Andrew Thomson & Prof John Brodholt | Impact: AWE/UCL | |
| Amara Reed | Reconstructing Plio-Pleistocene mammal migrations in east and southern Africa. | Dr Phil Hopley & Dr David Wilson | NERC - DTP | |
| Abigail Robinson | Machine Learning for Real Time Volcano Seismic Monitoring. | Prof James Hammond (Birkbeck) & Dr Alexander Steele | NERC - DTP | |
| Elias Rugen | Understanding Earth’s carbon cycle through the Proterozoic | Prof Graham Shields Dr Susan Little & Imran Rahman, NHM | NERC - DTP | |
| Alex Saoulis | Prof Ana Ferreira | STFC Data intensive science | ||
| Perth Sethapanichsakul | An Investigation of the Taxonomy, Evolutionary Relationships, and Biogeography of Southeast Asian Sauropod Dinosaurs. | Prof Paul Upchurch & Prof Phil Mannion | Self-funded | |
| Isaac Taschimowitz | Investigating the Density of a Chondritic Melt Under High Pressure, and Implications for Earth Formation | Prof John Brodholt, Paul Scofield (NHM) & Dr Andy Thomson | NERC - DTP | |
| Maria-Jose Vera Gonzalez | Multiscale characterisation of seismic scattering, diffraction and anisotropy in the lithosphere/asthenosphere system. | Dr Alex Song | CONICYT Becas-Chile | |
| Li Wang | Temporal variations of magma movement beneath Axial Seamount. | Dr Alex Song | China Scholarship Council | |
| Zhiquan Yin | Prof Graham Shields | |||
| Lin Yuan | Investigating the history of Neoproterozoic ocean redox states: Implications for early animal evolution. | Prof Graham Shields | China Council -UCL | |
| Elena Zaharia | "Can a basal magma ocean survive in a super-Earth? | STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) – UKRI. | ||
| Alexander Zarebski | Investigating the Role of Basal Magma Oceans in the Formation of Exoplanetary Magnetic Fields | Dr Maxim Ballmer | Self-Funded | |
| Handan Zhang | Dr Alex Song | |||
| Yu Zhang | The potential influence of marine sulphate deposition on long-term climate. | Prof Graham Shields | UCL Overseas Research Scholarship & UCL Graduate Research Scholarship. |