Faculty Associates

More than 60 Oxford academics are current Faculty Associates of the Smith School, working on environmental problems and solutions in more than a dozen departments across the University.

If you are a member of Oxford University who would like to become a Faculty Associate of the Smith School please contact enquires [at] smithschool.ox.ac.uk with a suggestion of how you would like to work with us.

Professor Myles Allen
Physics, Geosystem Science, Geography and the Environment.
Myles Allen is Professor of Geosystem Science, at the School of Geography and the Environment, head of the Climate Dynamics group in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics at the University of Oxford.

Mr Christopher Allsopp
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Christopher Allsopp, CBE, is Director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), a Recognised Independent Centre of the University of Oxford.

Professor Fraser Armstrong
Chemistry
Fraser Armstrong is Professor of Chemistry, working in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford.

Professor Katherine Blundell
Physics
Katherine Blundell is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford.

Dr David Bonilla
Geography and the Environment
David Bonilla is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment (Transport Studies Unit) at the University of Oxford. He holds an MSc in macroeconomics from Queen Mary College, London, and a PhD in Japanese energy policy from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. David has worked at the Asia Pacific Energy Research Center in Tokyo and at the Climate Change Mitigation Research Center (4CMR) at the University of Cambridge, and is particularly interested in energy economics focusing on transport, the environmental impacts of freight transport, and econometric models of carbon emissions. He has examined the role of EU and Japanese energy policy regarding transport to 2030 and developed econometric models of the car market. He is currently working on freight transport and on the externalities of biofuels.

Professor Alistair Borthwick
Engineering Science
Alistair Borthwick is the Deputy Head of the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. Alastair has 30 years’ experience in environmental engineering. His research interests include flood simulation, environmental fluid mechanics, coastal processes, hazard risk management, water quality, water and wastewater treatment, multiple-objective decision-making for sustainable ecosystems, and wave-structure interaction. He has been collaborating with Peking University on environmental engineering for more than 10 years. He has authored more than 80 papers in refereed journals. In 2005, Alastair was awarded a DSc by the University of Oxford for his collected research publications 1986-2004. He is Associate Editor of Ocean Engineering and Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Institution of Civil Engineers journal Engineering and Computational Mechanics. Alastair is also a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Dr Emily Boyd
Environmental Change Institute
Emily Boyd is a James Martin 21st Century School Research Fellow and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow based at the Environment Change Institute at the University of Oxford.

Dr Christian Brand
Geography and the Environment
Christian Brand is a Senior Researcher in the Transport Studies Unit and the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.

Professor John Broome
Philosophy
John Broome is White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Before he took his first job in philosophy, as a Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, John was Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. His main work is on normativity, rationality, and reasoning, but he has also long had an interest in the ethics of climate change. His book Counting the Cost of Global Warming was published in 1992.

Dr Nick Brown
Plant Sciences
Nick Brown is University Lecturer in Forestry in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford.

Professor Simon Caney
Politics and International Relations

Professor Paul Collier
Economics
Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford.

Professor Richard Darton
Engineering Science
Richard Darton is Head of the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford.

Professor Peter Dobson
Begbroke Science Park
Professor Pete Dobson runs Oxford University’s Begbroke Science Park, which is located in Kidlington, just north of Oxford. The Park is closely linked to the University’s science and technology departments and its staff work with a wide range of companies particularly those in the energy, environment and healthcare sectors.
Professor Dobson joined the University in 1988 when he was appointed to a University Lectureship and College Fellowship at Queen’s College. He became Academic Director at Begbroke in 2002 and has set up several research institutes within Bebroke. He offers training in enterprise and entrepreneurship, advises corporate and national organisations on nanotechnology, and provides technical help to regional development agencies and other bodies on energy and environmental matters.
Professor Dobson is an active member of the Smith School’s World Forum Advisory Board, and Smith School Fellows are amongst those attending and benefiting from his lectures on energy awareness. He has also initiated links between the School and the South East England Development Agency.
His research interests are very broad, covering most aspects of nanotechnology including biotechnology and environmental technology.

Professor Peter Edwards
Chemistry
Peter Edwards is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Head of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford.

Dr Nick Eyre
Environmental Change Institute
Nick Eyre is a Jackson Senior Research Fellow and head of the Lower Carbon Futures group in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.

Dr Liz Fisher
Law
Liz Fisher is a Reader in Environmental Law in the Faculty of Law and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. She completed a BA and LLB at the University of New South Wales and an MA and DPhil at the University of Oxford. Her research interests lie in the interface between public law, risk, and public administration in a range of different legal cultures. She has published widely on risk and public law issues including Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2007) (winner of the Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, 2008) and has co-edited two collections on the precautionary principle: R. Harding & E. Fisher (eds), Perspectives on the Precautionary Principle (1999), and E. Fisher, J. Jones, & R. von Schomberg (eds), Implementing the Precautionary Principle (2006). Liz also convenes the Law Faculty’s undergraduate and postgraduate environmental law courses.

Dr Xiaolan Fu
International Development
Xiaolan Fu is University Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Oxford.

Dr Arunabha Ghosh
Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University
Arunabha Ghosh is Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton; Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford; and Faculty Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford. Arunabha currently works on the governance of the climate change regime.

Dr Moshe Givoni
Geography and the Environment
Moshe Givoni is a Senior Researcher in the Transport Studies Unit in the School of Geography and the Environment at the Univeristy of Oxford.

Professor Andrew Goudie
Geography and the Environment
Andrew Goudie is Master of St Cross College and a former head of the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, where, in 1991, he established the Environmental Change Institute. His research interests include climatic change in low latitudes, the effects of future climate change on geomorphological systems, and the importance of dust storm activity.

Professor Chris Grovenor
Materials
Chris Grovenor is Head of the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford. He has research interests in applied superconductivity, nano-structured materials for photovoltaic applications, and more generally in the processing of electronic materials. He is group leader of the team developing applications for the ultra-fine, high-resolution CAMECA NanoSIMS ion microprobe, particularly in the study of degradation mechanisms in critical materials for the nuclear industry. Chris is also part of the Solar Energy Materials Initiative, which aims to develop improved solar technology.

Dr Rajat Gupta
Architecture
Rajat Gupta is a Reader in Architecture and Climate Change in the Department of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, where he is also Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development-Low Carbon Building group.

Professor Alex Halliday
Earth Sciences
Alex Halliday is Professor of Geochemistry in the Department of Earth Sciences and Head of the Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences Division at the University of Oxford.

Professor Barbara Harriss-White
International Development
Barbara Harriss-White is University Professor of Development Studies in the Oxford Department of International Development.

Professor Dieter Helm
New College
Dieter Helm, CBE, is a Professor of Energy Policy at New College.

Professor Gideon Henderson
Earth Sciences
Gideon Henderson is Sollas Fellow and Praelector in Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford.

Professor David Hendry
Economics
David Hendry is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.

Professor Nick Jelley
Physics
Nick Jelley is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford.

Dr Helen Johnson
Earth Sciences
Dr Helen Johnson is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford.

Professor Paul Klemperer
Economics
Paul Klemperer is Edgeworth Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford.

Professor Jane Langdale
Plant Sciences
Jane Langdale is Professor of Plant Development and Head of the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford.

Professor Chris Llewllyn Smith
Physics
Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith FRS is Director of Energy Research Oxford University and a Visiting Professor in Physics. He is also President SESAME Council.

Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Environmental Change Institute
Yadvinder Malhi is Professor of Ecosystem Science in the School of Geography and the Environment and Programme Leader in Ecosystems Research at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Yadvinder’s research focuses on the impact of global atmospheric change on the ecology, structure and composition of terrestrial ecosystems, and in particular temperate and tropical forests. His research addresses fundamental questions about ecosystem function and dynamics, whilst at the same time providing outputs of direct relevance for conservation and adaptation to climate change. A particular new focus is on the role that the international carbon markets and climate change framework can play in protecting tropical forests. Yadvinder applies a range of techniques, including field physiological studies, large-scale and long-term ecological monitoring, satellite remote-sensing and geographic information systems (GIS), ecosystem modelling, and micrometeorological techniques. The work has a particular focus on tropical forests, and Yadvinder’s group has an extensive ongoing research programme in Asia, Africa, and particularly across the Amazon and Andes region. He also has an expanding network of research in temperate woodlands in the Upper Thames region.

Professor David Marshall
Physics
David Marshall is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics at the University of Oxford.

Dr Malcolm McCulloch
Engineering Science
Malcolm McCulloch is University Lecturer in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford.

Dr Rachael McDonnell
Geography and the Environment
Rachael McDonnell is Senior Research Scientist at the Oxford Centre for Water Research at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment.

Dr Benito Mueller
Philosophy
Benito Mueller is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford.

Dr Mark New
Geography and the Environment
Mark New is Reader in Climate Science in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

Dr Rafael Ramírez
Saïd Business School
Rafael Ramírez is Professor of Management at HEC-Paris, Senior Research Fellow in Futures at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford University’s Said Business School, and Fellow in Strategy at the School. He holds a PhD in Social Systems Science from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Master’s in Environmental Studies from York University (Toronto), an MA from Oxford, and a BSc in Geography and the International Baccalaureate from Atlantic College. Rafael is the author of numerous scientific and management publications, including his latest book, Business Planning in Turbulent Times: New Methods for Applying Scenarios, co-edited with John Selsky and Kees van der Heijden (Earthscan 2008). He is co-founder of the ‘Coaching and Consulting for Change’ joint programme between HEC and Oxford, founder of the Oxford Scenarios Programme (for executives), the Oxford Scenarios Masterclass, and the Oxford Futures Forum. He was recently named Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s global council on strategic foresight. Previously Rafael has worked at the Management and Behavioural Science Centre of the Wharton School, the York University Action Learning Group in Toronto, the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and was Visiting Professor of Scenarios and Corporate Strategy at Shell International from 2000 to 2003.

Dr Rosalind Rickaby
Earth Sciences
Rosalind Rickaby is University Lecturer in Biogeochemistry in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford.

Dr Laura Rival
International Development
Laura Rival is University Lecturer in Anthropology and Development at the Oxford Department of International Development.

Dr Heike Schroeder
Environmental Change Institute
Heike Schroeder is a Tyndall Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Her departmental webpage can be found here.

Professor Andrew Smith
Plant Sciences
Andrew Smith is a professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford.

Dr Philip Stier
Physics
Philip Stier is University Lecturer in Climate Change and Earth Observation Physics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford.

Professor Richard Stone
Engineering Science
Richard Stone is a professor in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford.

Professor David Thomas
Geography and the Environment
David Thomas is Professor of Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment.

Professor Ian Thompson
Engineering Science
Ian Thompson is a professor in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford.

Mr Martino Tran
Environmental Change Institute
Martino Tran is a Research Fellow in the Lower Carbon Futures research group in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.

Professor Rick van der Ploeg
Economics
Rick van der Ploeg is Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre) at the University of Oxford. Rick is a former State Secretary of Education, Culture, and Science and Member of Parliament of the Netherlands. His main research interests are in environmental and natural resource economics, macroeconomics, and public finance. He has worked on sustainable growth, environmental tax reform, the adverse effects of natural resource dependence on economic development, and on how to harness windfall revenue in developing economies.

Professor Tony Venables
Economics
Tony Venables is BP Professor of Economics and Director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies at the University of Oxford.

Professor Paul Whitehead
Geography and the Environment
Paul Whitehead is Professor of Water Science and Director of Research at the Oxford Centre for Water Research in the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. Prior to coming to Oxford, Paul worked at the University of Reading as Professor and Director of the Aquatic Environments Research Centre. Paul’s research interests have focused on dynamic behaviour of river, lakes, wetlands and catchments and the interactions between hydrology, water quality, and ecology. He has a special interest in modelling, including the development of dynamic, stochastic, and planning models, and his INCA suite of dynamic models have been applied widely across the world.
Paul has served on several senior NERC committees and has also been an environmental research advisor to the EU, European governments, and UNESCO, and has worked in Nepal, Thailand, India, China, Taiwan, Brazil, Australia, and the USA. He has published widely, with over 90 papers in the refereed literature. He is currently on the executive committee of Euro-limpacs, Europe’s largest research project on the impacts of climate change on river, lake, and wetland ecosystems across Europe.

Professor Kathy Willis
Geography and the Environment
Kathy Willis is Professor of Long-Term Ecology in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

Professor Roger Zetter
International Development
Roger Zetter is Professor of Refugee Studies and Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the Oxford Department of International Development.

Dr Jimin Zhao
Environmental Change Institute
Jimin Zhao is a James Martin 21st Century School Research Fellow based at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.

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