Research students
See our student's contributions to Earth Sciences.
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 | Melt layers in the Moon and the composition of its core | Prof Lidunka Vočadlo, Prof John Brodholt, Prof Andy Thomson, and Prof Ian Wood | ||
| Ali Azimi | Developing a Seismic Risk Assessment to Enhance Earthquake Hazard Mitigation on Java Island, Indonesia | Dr Alexander Steele & Dr Penelope Wilson | LPDP Scholarship | |
| 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 | |
| Connor Burke | Exploring retrievals of sea ice and snow using the SWOT satellite and multi-frequency analysis. | Dr Rosie Willatt & Dr Harry Heorton (UCL Geography) | TREES DLA | |
| Qien Cai | Leveraging machine learning algorithms for improved Arctic sea-ice prediction using the Met Office suite of models | Dr Michel Tsamados & Davi Carneiro (Met Office), Jason McEwan (UCL MSSL) | UNRISK DFA | |
| Gabriel Adler Cancino | Linking Petrological Data with Geophysical Monitoring Data for Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador. | Dr Chiara Petrone (NHM) & Dr Liz Gaunt | NERC - DTP | |
| 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 | |
| Yifan Du | Chemical Weathering Response of New Guinea to Orbital Scale Climate Variability. | Prof Peter Clift | Royal Society | |
| Alicia Fallows | Multidisciplinary study of ice growth for polar climate change investigations: from laboratory experiments to modelling to remote sensing. | Dr Rosemary Willatt & Prof Tom Mitchell | NERC - DTP | |
| Madhvi Gor | Geochemical and Physical Evolution of Lava Flows | Dr Eleanor Jennings (BBK) & Prof Chris Kilburn | NERC - DTP | |
| Veronica Ponz Grasa | Dr Alex Steele & Dr Liz Gaunt | TREES DLA | ||
| 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 | |
| Yue He (Maisie) | The prospect of carbon capture, utilisation and storage in China to reduce CO2 emissions: Environmental impacts and related risks. | Prof. Tom Mitchell & Dr Sudeshna Basu-Gupta | self - funded | |
| Katrina Harris | High Resolution Surface Wave Tomography beneath the Macaronesian Archipelagos. | Prof Ana Ferreira | ERC | |
| Elisha Hayward | Investigating Climate, Ocean Circulation and Marine Ecosystem Changes Across the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene | Prof Bridget Wade & Prof Richard Twitchett | NERC - DTP | |
| Zarina Hewett | North Atlantic circulation during past abrupt climate events in the Holocene. | Prof. David Thornalley (Geography) and Dr David Wilson | NERC - DTP | |
| Mohamed Ismail | The initial condition for the long-term evolution of terrestrial planets. | Dr Maxim Ballmer & Dr Andy Thomson | Self-funded | |
| Jocelyn Japnanto | Beyond Earthquakes: Learning from Seismic Data with Deep Learning | Prof Ana Ferreira & Dr. Matt Graham, | 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 | ||
| Leo Le Good | Prof Bridget Wade | TREES DLA | ||
| 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 | ||
| Aamir Mehmood | The Phylogenetic, biogeographic and macroevolutionary history of living and fossil penguins (Aves: Sphenisciformes) | Prof Paul Upchurch & Prof Phil Mannion, Dr Ryan Felice (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology) | UCL Earth Sciences scholarship | |
| Robert Mansergh | Dinosaur Biogeography and the Implications of Fossil Record Bias. | Prof. Paul Upchurch & Dr. Susannah Maidment (Natural History Museum). | NERC - DTP | |
| Benjamin Mellor | Dr Michel Tsamados & Prof Chris Brierley | NERC - DTP | ||
| Becky McGanity-Smith | Reconstructing and Modelling Climate Weathering Interactions in East Australia. | Prof Peter Clift | Royal Society | |
| 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 | |
| Connor Nelson | Investigating the Arctic sea ice snowpack and modelling its interaction with microwave radiation. | Prof Julienne Stroeve & Dr Michel Tsamados | NERC - DTP | |
| 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 | |
| Sabrina Raziuddin Chang | Understanding Antarctic sea ice variability through satellite remote sensing and Southern Ocean sea ice budget analyses. | Dr Michel Tsamados & Dr Lavenia Ratnarajah, Dr Alessandro Silvano (Southampton) | European Space Agency | |
| 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 | |
| Charlie Scherer | Cranial and endocranial ontogeny in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: Implications for palaeoecology and behaviour. | Prof Paul Upchurch & Prof Paul Barrett (NHM) | UCL-RES scholarship | |
| Rachel Spanton | Susan Little & Dr Katie McFall | TREES DLA | ||
| Helen Underwood | Interglacial instability of the Greenland ice sheet and its impacts on climate. | Dr David Wilson & Prof David Thornalley (UCL,Geography) | NERC - DTP | |
| Zhiyang Wang | Taxonomic and Ecomorphological Diversity of Birds Through Deep Time. | Prof Phil Mannion, Dr Lewis Jones & Dr Ryan Felice | Self-funded | |
| Ryan Wilson | Dr Matt Fox & Dr Katie McFall | NERC - TARGET | ||
| Zhiquan Yin | Stable Isotope Records of Neoproterozoic Cap Carbonates and the Reconstruction of Post-Glacial Environments. | Prof Graham Shields | Self-funded | |
| Elena Zaharia | Exploring Tectonic Regimes on Diverse Rocky Exoplanets: Effects of Planet Mass and Magmatism. | Dr Maxim Ballmer, Prof Lidunka Vočadlo | STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) – UKRI. | |
| Mingjing Zhang | Understanding the feeding strategies of Cambrian apex predator radiodonts based on computational methods | Dr Stephen Pates & Prof Bridget Wade | CSC scholarship | |
| Alexander Zarebski | Investigating the Role of Basal Magma Oceans in the Formation of Exoplanetary Magnetic Fields | Dr Maxim Ballmer | Self-Funded | |
| Handan Zhang | Mapping Core-mantle boundary anisotropy with core-reflected P waves. | 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. |