People
Jonathan Abra
Knowledge Transfer Manager
Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network
Jonathan’s area of expertise lies in water and waste water management, and contaminated soil remediation. He is interested in the marketing of environmental goods and services, and supports the ESKTN in developing company-based Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.
Lakshmi Manjoosha Adapa
DPhil Researcher
Department of Engineering Science
Lakshmi’s research focuses on metal adsorption and distribution in bacterial biofilms in order to investigate the adsorption behaviour of metals singly and in combination, and to ascertain whether metals are adsorbed onto bacterial surfaces or are taken into the cytoplasm. This will inform further studies into the recovery of metals from biofilms and on bioprocess optimisation. Supervisor: Professor Ian Thompson
Dr Duane Ager
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Department of Engineering Science
Duane Ager’s research interests are in sustainability and resource recovery using biological and hybrid systems. Current commercial and academic projects include resource and water recovery from large scale industrial waste streams.
Dr Sabina Alkire
Director of Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Department of International Development
Sabina Alkire directs the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the Department of International Development. She is co-author of the Multidimensional Poverty Index – an international measure of acute poverty with three dimensions: health, education and living standards. Access to safe drinking water is one of the MPI indicators in the living standards dimension.
Professor Myles Allen
Professor of Geosystem Science; Head of Climate Dynamics Group
School of Geography and the Environment
Myles Allen examines how human and natural influences on climate contribute to observed climate change and risks of extreme weather and in quantifying their implications for long-range climate forecasts.