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Former Group members:

Postdoctoral fellows:

Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco worked in Leeds as a EU Marie Curie Fellow between 2007 and 2012 on: The kinetics and mechanisms of calcium carbonates nucleation and growth from solution.; he is now an Assistant Professor at the at the NanoGeoScience Centre at the University of Copenhagen

Zongbo Shi worked in Leeds on a NERC grant between 2007 and 2011 on: Iron in Saharan dust and links to atmospheric processing; he is now a Birmingham University Fellow/NERC Research Fellow at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham

Teresa Roncal-Herrero worked in Leeds as a EU Marie Curie Fellow on the "The Nucleation and growth of phosphates" (part of her PhD) and on "Evaporitic carbonate formation processes" (as a postdoc); currently writing up and working for an international consulting company;

Steeve Bonneville worked on the UK NERC Weathering Consortium project and focused on Nanoscale interactions in fungal weathering processes (in Leeds between 2006-2010); now a Lecturer at the Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l’Environnement at the Université Libre de Bruxelles Belgium

Imad Ahmed worked on Green Rust; (2006-2009) now a postdoctoral fellow at Lancaster University in the Aquatic Chemistry and Environmental Radioactivity Group

Jenny Rivas worked on Iron oxide stability and transformation (2005 - 2007); now a Faculty Research Staff Development Officer in the School of Earth and Environment in Leeds;

Stefan Hunger worked on Greigite formation kinetics (in Leeds between 2003 and 2006); he is a teacher in Germany

Konstantin Tarasov worked on The stability of Jarosite (in Leeds in 2003); now at the Institute of Solid State Chemistry & Mechanochemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia

Nathan Yee worked on Biogenic silicification (2001 and 2003); now at Rutgers University, USA

PhD Students:

Andrew Bennett: (PhD in Leeds: 2001 - 2005); working at STFC Innovations.

Lois Davidson: (PhD in Leeds: 2003-2007; Environmental Consultant in Australia);

Dominique Tobler (PhD in Leeds: 2005 - 2008; EPSRC Postdoc in Glasgow and now Research Fellow at the NanoGeoScience Centre at the University of Copenhagen)

Marek Stibal (PhD in Bristol; partly co-supervised in Leeds; at present working for The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Alexandra Xylouri (PhD in Leeds; 2005-2009); at present teacher in Greece

Hong Phuc Vu (PhD in Leeds; 2006-2010; now a McKenzie Fellow at Melbourne University in the Geobiology lab of John Moreau)

Loredana Brinza (PhD in Leeds; 2005-2010; at present Postdoctoral research associate at station I 18 at Diamond Light Source)

Cristina Moisescu (PhD at the Institute of Biology at the Romanian Academy of Sciences; exchange student in Leeds between 2007-2010; at present staff member at the Institute of Biology at the Romanian Academy of Sciences)

Gabriella Kakonyi (PhD in Leeds; 2006-2011; now Research Associate at the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Sheffield)

Verity Payne (PhD in Leeds; 2006-2011; at present Science Writer for Carbon Brief)

Adriana Matamoros Veloza (PhD in Leeds; 2006-2012) currently Analytical Research Fellow in charge of the AAS in the Cohen Laboratory Suite in the School of Earth and Environment in Leeds.

Pieter Bots (PhD in Leeds; 2008-2012) currently Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Manchester working on the BIG_RAD project

Former Visiting Fellows

Kleopatra Detsi (in Leeds in 2007; PhD at the Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Teresa Roncal Herrero (in Leeds in 2008-2009; PhD at University Paul Sabatier/CNRS, Toulouse, France);

Karina Krarup Sand (in Leeds in 2009; PhD at the Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen, Denmark);

Cristina Moisescu (in Leeds for ~ 15 months between 2007 and 2009; PhD at the Romanian Academy of Sciences and University of Leeds)

Former MSc Students

2008-2009: Andrew Bray (currently PhD in Leeds- see above).
2004-2005: Vu Hong Phuc (PhD in Leeds see above)

2003-2004:    (a) Helen Cope (PhD at Edinburgh University)
                        (b) Catriona Neat (now consultant at ARUP)
                     (c) Chris Adams (PhD at the University of East Anglia)

2002-2003: (a) Belinda Troup, Environmental Consultant
(b) Thu Hien Nguyen (PhD, Chemistry Leeds)

2001-2002: Paul Craddock (PhD at MIT/WHOI)

2000-2001:      (a) David Worton (PhD at University of East Anglia),
                         (b) Katherine Manser,
                         (c) Shaun Lavis (PhD at University of Cardiff)

1999-2000:     Catherine Ashton, Maggie Gorringe (PhD in Nottingham),
                       Pavel Goudochnikov (PhD in Institute for Materials Research, Leeds)
                     Iain Pitcairn (PhD at Southampton).

Research Students: Ken Amor (2002) - PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford

Current PhD Students
Andrew Bray Project title: Mineral weathering and soil formation: the role of organic compounds Funding body: UK-Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Consortium Grant: WUN WSC Weathering Science Consortium Co-supervised by Steeve Bonneville (Brussels) and Eric Oelkers (Toulouse) Start date: Oct 2009
Carlos Castillo-Zacarias Project Title: Cyto-toxicity of bacterial communities Funding : The National Council for Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACyT) Co-supervised by Caroline Peacock Start date: July 2011
Stefanie Lutz Project title: Cryo-life habitability on arctic polythermal glaciers Funding body: School of Earth and Environment and Liane Co-supervised by Alexandre Anesio (Bristol) and Dr Fiona Gill Start date: October 2012
Daniela Meier Project title: Silica precipitation under geothermal conditions Funding body: FP7 Marie Curie Training Network - MINSC - Mineral Scale Formation Co-supervised by Caroline Peacock Start date: October 2012
Taher Rabizadeh personal web page Project title: Sulfate and sulfide precipitation in the presence of additives Funding body: FP7 Marie Curie Training Network - MINSC - Mineral Scale Formation Co-supervised by Caroline Peacock Start date: January 2013
Mercedes Ossorio Peralta PhD 20011-2014; Funded by Spanish Government Fellowship Project title: Calcium sulphate precipitation (PhD at CSIC in Granada and in the Cohen Laboratories in Leeds)
Aryani Sumoondur personal web page Project Title: Magnetite formation in reducing environments. Funding : MIR - Mineral-fluid Interface Reactivity, Early-Stage Training (EST) Fellowship Co-supervised by Sam Shaw (Manchester) Start date: October 2006