Research Department

Members of the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences are involved in conducting world class research funded by national and international granting agencies.

Research activities include laboratory and fieldwork based projects in addition to theoretical and high performance computing focused studies. The training of highly qualified physical scientists is a key mission within the department and interested graduate school applicants are encouraged to contact appropriate departmental faculty members.

Departmental research activities focus on chemistry, environmental science and planetary physics.

Research Opportunities

View our research opportunities here.

Specific areas of interest include

G. Arhonditsis	Aquatic biogeochemical modelling & plankton ecology
P. Artymowicz	Origin and evolution of planetary systems
M. Dittrich	Microorganism-Mineral Interactions,Geomicrobiology, Biogeochemistry
J. Donaldson	Atmospheric and Physical Chemistry
C. Dyer	Relativistic Astrophysics, Black Holes and Cosmology
N. Eyles	The last 4 billion years; Earth’s glacial history
R. Fulthorpe	Microbial Ecology
W. Gough	Climate change, meterology and ocean modelling
B. Greenwood	Coastal Research
K. Howard	Groundwater research
M. Isaac	Agroecology; Plant-soil interactions; Biogeochemical cycling; Environment and Development
A. Izmaylov	Theoretical Physical Chemistry
K. Kerman	Analytical and Biological Chemistry
B. Kraatz	Bioinorganic and Biological Chemistry, Electrochemistry
J.Lowman	Mantle convection and planetary interior dynamics
M. Meriano	Hydrogeology
C. Mitchell	Hydrology, biogeochemistry, mercury and metals cycling
A. Simpson	Analytical environmental chemistry
M. Simpson	Environmental and analytical geochemistry
F. Wania	Environmental organic chemistry
M. Wells	Environmental fluid dynamics
X.A. Zhang	Biological, organic and bioinorganic chemistry; molecular imaging