Staff Profiles

Cold and Palaeo Environments

Dr Benjamin Brock
Reader in Remote Sensing
PhD MSc BSc FHEA
I am a physical geographer with expertise in the following areas: • Glacier-climate relationships • Remote sensing and numerical melt modelling of snow and ice masses • Meteorology and water resources... more>>

Dr Stuart Dunning
Senior Lecturer
BSc (Hons) PhD
My primary research focus is the study of landslides in mountainous regions and the quantification of their contribution to landscape development, and how their signal propagates through the landscape.... more>>

Dr Vasile Ersek
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
BSc (Hons) MSc, PhD
2013-present: Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Northumbria University2011-2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford University2009-2011: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University2008-2009: Fixed-Term... more>>

Dr Emma Hocking (nee Watcham)
Lecturer in Physical Geography
BSc, MSc, PhD (Dunelm)
2011-present: Lecturer, Geography and Environment, Northumbria University 2009-2011: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geography, Durham University 2006-2010: PhD Geography, Durham University2005-2006:... more>>

Dr Michael Lim
Research Fellow
PhD
My research is focused on providing a quantitative understanding of geomorphic processes, with particular emphasis on slope behaviour. My main areas of application investigate the processes and mechanisms... more>>

Dr Paul James Mann
Anniversary Research Fellow
BSc, MSc, PhD
I joined Northumbria University in 2013 after completing three years as a post-doctoral researcher in Woods Hole, USA. During this time, I had the opportunity to study some of the world’s largest river... more>>

Dr Matthew Pound
Research Fellow in Physical Geography PhD, MSci (Hons) 2013- Research Fellow in Physical Geography, Northumbria University2012-2013 Research Assistant in Physical Geography, Northumbria University2008 - 2012 PhD "Middle to Late Miocene terrestrial biota and... more>>

Dr Nick Rutter
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
BA DPhil After doing an undergraduate degree in Geography I became interested in the hydrology of cold terrestrial environments.  I first developed on this interest through PhD study into water flow through an Alpine... more>>

Professor Ulrich Salzmann
Professor of Palaeoecology
PhD MSc
Since 2010 Geography, Northumbria University, UK 2005 - 2009 Senior Palynologist, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK 2005 - 2003 Research Fellow, Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology,... more>>

Dr Leanne Mary Wake
Anniversary Research Fellow
MSc, PhD
I joined the Cold and Palaeo Environments research group at Northumbria in 2013 after two years spent as a postdoctoral researcher in Calgary, Alberta. My interest in earth system science was stimulated... more>>

Professor John Woodward
Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) and Professor of Physical Geography
BSc MSc PhD
• Professor of Physical Geography, Northumbria University, 2013–present.

• Director of Research, Department of Geography, 2010-present.

• Reader in Physical Geography, Northumbria University, 2008–2013... more>>