| Title |
Name |
Surname |
Position |
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Research interests |
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| School of Biology and Environmental Science | ||||||
| Dr |
Sobia |
Ajaz |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
Microbiome, nutrient exchange, nutrient cycling, morphological characteristics, soil moisture content |
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| Dr |
Saule |
Akhmetkaliyeva |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
Organic carbon, organic biomarkers, saltmarsh, deglaciated landscape, blue carbon |
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| Dr |
Nida |
Amin |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
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| Dr |
Nicholas |
Brereton |
Lecturer |
Phytoremediation, metagenomics, meta-transcriptomics, exudate metabolomics, astrobiology |
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| Dr |
Tancredi |
Caruso |
Associate Professor |
Soil Biodiversity, plant-soil interactions, plant-microbe interactions, networks, soil food web |
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| Dr |
Andrea |
Fuchs |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
Carbon stocks, biogeochemistry, greenhouse gases, sedimentation, soil characteristics |
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| Ms |
Elaine |
Haskins |
PhD researcher |
Plants, soil, microbes, networks, community |
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| Dr |
Rainer |
Meltzer |
Lecturer |
Microbiome, biostimulants, greenhouse gas emissions |
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| Prof. |
Christoph |
Mueller |
Visiting Professor |
Climate change, gross elemental transformations, plant-microbe interactions, |
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| Dr |
Florence |
Renou-Wilson |
Project Manager |
Peat, carbon stock, nutrient stock, water table management, greenhouse gas |
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| Stefania |
Sabau |
PhD Researcher |
Rhizosphere interactions, symbioses, root architecture, plant physiology, co-cropping |
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| Mr |
Ryan |
Smazal |
Research Assistant pending Viva |
Carbon, palaeoclimate, palaeoecology, geochemistry, stable isotopes |
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| School of Agriculture and Food Science |
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| Mr |
Renaud |
Bulpa |
Early-Stage Researcher |
Root development, root–soil interaction, soil compaction, AI-based RSA analysis |
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| Dr |
Thomas |
Cummins |
Lecturer |
Soil history, soil monitoring, urban soils, anthropogenic soils, soil mapping |
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| Eva |
Cunningham |
Graduate Researcher |
Water quality, sward type, runoff/leaching, infiltration, microorganisms |
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| Luke |
Dowd |
PhD Researcher |
Forestry, peat, carbon, resilience |
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| Angela Agyemang |
Duah |
PhD Researcher |
Greenhouse gas, nitrogen cycling, climate change, fertiliser, nitrogen management, |
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| Dr |
Gary |
Gillespie |
Lecturer |
Compaction, cultivation, trafficking, tillage systems, crop establishment |
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| Dr |
Mary |
Harty |
Lecturer |
Greenhouse gases, nutrient cycling, soil health, horticulture, sensor technology |
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| Dr |
Ibrahim |
Khalil |
Senior Research Fellow |
Soil biogeochemistry, soil health, greenhouse gases, carbon sequestration, modelling |
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| Katie |
Martin |
PhD Researcher |
Roots, earthworms, microorganisms, nutrients, agriculture |
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| Dr |
Aisling |
Moffat |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
Biodiversity, geochemistry, soil pests, entomology, meso fauna |
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| Patricia | Morris | Phd Researcher | (opens in a new window)patricia.morris1@ucdconnect.ie | Peat, horticulture, novel growing media, roots, rhizosphere |
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| Prof. |
Paul |
Murphy |
Associate Professor |
Soil nutrient cycling, greenhouse gas emissions, water quality, soil water |
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| Dr |
Magdalena |
Necpalova |
Lecturer |
Soil carbon, ecosystem modelling, soil GHG emissions, soil management, climate change impacts |
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| Ernest |
Osei-Asante |
PhD Researcher |
Nutrient cycling and management, climate change, greenhouse gases and ammonia emissions, livestock production, urine patches |
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| Prof. |
Olaf |
Schmidt |
Professor |
Soil biology, soil ecology, soil biodiversity, soil functions, soil management |
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| Mr |
Denis-Florentin |
Sfrangeu |
Early-Stage Researcher |
(opens in a new window)denis-florentin.sfrangeu@ucdconnect.ie |
Soil physics, soil health, soil management, soil microbiome, soil analysis. |
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| Saoirse |
Sheehy Ariff |
PhD Researcher |
Nitrogen, micronutrients, fertiliser, wheat, pollution |
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| Dr |
Brian |
Tobin |
Lecturer |
Forest, ecosystem, rhizosphere, rooting architecture, carbon |
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| Gabrielle |
Young |
PhD Researcher |
Sustainability, fungi, agriculture, crop-production, materials |
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| School of Civil Engineering |
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| Dr |
Geetanjali |
Das |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
Soil stabilization, soil strength, soil permeability, soil porosity, sustainable geotechnical soil structure |
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| Prof. |
Mike |
Long |
Associate Professor |
Engineering aspects, laboratory testing, field testing, geophysics, strength, stiffness, soil characterisation (e.g. does it behave as a clay, silt, peat etc.) |
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| Mhlengi Khaya Luke |
Masango |
PhD Researcher |
Soil improvement, coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical process in soils, geomaterials micromechanics, behaviour of geotechnical structures |
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| Dr |
Budi |
Zhao |
Lecturer |
Strength, hydraulic, contamination transport |
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| School of Earth Sciences |
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| Prof. |
Eoghan |
Holohan |
Associate Professor |
Peat, bogs, remote sensing, instability, ground motion |
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| Dr |
Ruadhan |
Magee |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
Enhanced weathering, soil organic carbon, greenhouse gas fluxes, fertiliser management, pH adjustment |
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| Prof. |
Frank |
McDermott |
Full Professor |
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| School of Archaeology |
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| Prof. |
Helen |
Lewis |
Associate Professor |
Geoarchaeology, soil and sediment micromorphology, land use, landscape, palaeoenvironments |
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| Prof. |
Meriel |
McClatchie |
Associate Professor |
Archaeology, tillage, crops and arable weeds, manure fertiliser, soil health |
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| Library / Information systems |
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| Ms |
Jane |
Nolan |
Assistant Librarian |
Datasets, GIS, mapping, soil maps |
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| School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering |
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| Dr | Raghu Krishna | Moorthy | Postdoctoral Fellow |
Biological transport, mathematical modeling of porous media, microfluidics, microsystems for health monitoring | ||
| School of Biosystems and Food Engineering |
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| Dr |
Eva Achata |
Gonzales |
School Laboratory Manager |
technical, laboratory |
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| Conor | Kehoe | PhD Researcher | (opens in a new window)conor.kehoe1@ucdconnect.ie | Soil moisture, crop establishment, soil sensors, compaction, soil vulnerability |
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| Jacob |
Matovu |
PhD Researcher |
Greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration, modelling, suistainability |
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| Dr |
Sharon |
O'Rourke |
Lecturer |
Soil carbon, vis-NIR/MIR spectroscopy, nutrient management, soil microbiology, soil imaging |
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| Gafaru |
Sumaila |
PhD Researcher |
Soil carbon sequestration, soil nutrient cycling, soil response to land use, soil-based climate change mitigation strategies, alternative soil management practices |
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| Teagasc |
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| Longnan |
Shi |
PhD Researcher |
Soil carbon sequestration, spectroscopy, modelling |
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| School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering |
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| Dr |
Ramon |
Varghese |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
Soil-structure interaction, soil improvement, soil investigation |
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