Research Topics

We study a range of environmental processes at the interface between engineering and ecology, to discover how they work and to determine their environmental and societal effects. Through our research, we aim to contribute to generating the knowledge that will help better understand and manage the environment, particularly in the face of ongoing climate change.


Bacterial motility & Chemotaxis

#chemotaxis, motility, ocean, biological carbon pump, symbiosis, microfluidics, microscopy, field deployments

Microbial Ecosystems

#microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, population dynamics, microbial growth scaling law

Symbiosis

#microbial interactions, phytoplankton, phycosphere, symbiosis, chemotaxis, attachment

Leaf Microbiome

#microbial interactions, phyllosphere, leaf morphology, water dynamics

Ecohydraulics

#river hydraulics, hydropower, fish passage, habitat modelling, environmental flows, hydropeaking

Biofilms

#bacterial biofilms, biofilm assembly, biofilm dynamics, biofilm rheology, fluid flow

Soil Microbiome

#porous media, chemical transport, microbial behaviour

Encounters

#encounter rates, encounter kernels, microbial interactions, interaction timescales

Physiology

#cell growth, cell morphology, proteomics, biomass