I’ve been lucky to collaborate with some amazing PhD students and postdocs. I can only hope they learned as much from me as I learned from them.
Current Students and postdocs
| Noorzalianee Ghazali | Profile | Mangrove change. |
| Marina Ruiz Sánchez-Oro | Profile | Climate and landscape evolution. |
| Donny Wahyudi | Profile | Tectonic geomorphology. Co-supervised with Mikael Attal. |
| Saraswati Thapa | Profile | Flooding and sediment transport. Co-supervised with Hugh Sinclair and Mikael Attal. |
| Prakash Pokhrel | Tectonic geomorphology of the Kathmandu Basin. Co-supervised with Hugh Sinclair and Mikael Attal. | |
| Anthony Hoskins | Drainage reorganization in South Baja California. Co-supervised with Mikael Attal, David Sanderson (SUERC), and Miguel Castillo (UNAM). | |
| Anya Towers | Research site | Grain sizes in Scotland. Co-supervised with Mikael Attal and Hugh Sinclair. |
| Qiuyang Chen | River meandering and vegetation Co supervised with Mikael Attal and Stephen Hancock | |
| Zidong Yao | Pollutant sources, transport and fate. Co-supervised with Mikael Attal. |
Current visitors
| Wenfang Shi | Tectonic geomorphology. Visiting from the Chinese Earthquake Administration | |
| Chorkei Long | Mangrove change. State Key Laboratory of Coasts and Estuarine, East China Normal University |
Former PhD students, postdocs and researchers
| Lynsey MacLeary (nee Callaghan) | PhD in 2012. Vegetation and landscape evolution. Now an environmental consultant. | |
| Martin D. Hurst | Scholar Profile | PhD in 2013. Hillslope and coastal geomorphlogy. Now senior lecturer Glasgow University. |
| David T. Milodowski | Scholar Profile | PhD in 2016. Vegetation, topographic analysis, lidar, geomorphlogy. Now research scientist at Edinburgh University. |
| Stuart W.D. Grieve | Scholar Profile | PhD in 2016. Hillslope geomorphology, natural hazards, topographic analysis. Now senior lecturer at Queen Mary University London |
| Fiona J. Clubb | Scholar Profile | PhD in 2017. Topographic analysis, hydrology, landscape evolution, geomorphology. Now assistant professor at Durham University |
| John Preston | PhD in 2017. Coastal landscape evolution and Vikings. Now environmental consultant. | |
| Calum Bradbury | Masters by research in 2018. Controls on channel steepness in the Himalyas. Now environmental consultant in New Zealand. | |
| Dan Hobley | Scholar Profile | Postdoc in 2013, on project with Hugh Sinclair. Numerical modelling, landscape evolution, planetary geomorphology, sedimentology. Now software engineer |
| Marie-Alice Harel | Profile | Postdoc in 2015. Cosmogenics, landscape evolution, and hillslope hydrology. Now an illustrator. |
| Declan Valters | Scholar Profile | Landscape evolution, hydrology. Declan was an MEarthSci student at Edinburgh and during his PhD at Manchester and as a research software engineer helped develop LSDTopoTools. Now research software engineer at British Geological Survey |
| Guillaume Goodwin | Scholar Profile | Salt marsh evolution. Now at Fish-pass, and environmental consultancy |
| Boris Gailleton | Scholar Profile | Tectonic evolution of the Carpathians and topographic analysis. Co-supervised with Hugh Sinclair. Now at CNRS Rennes |
| Wang Yanzai | Soil erosion and tectonic geomorphology, Congqing Normal University | |
| Yan Luobin | Scholar | Evolution of sandstone landscapes. Southwest University |
| Callum Strong | Profile | Evolution of African drainage systems. Co-supervised with Mikael Attal and Hugh Sinclair. Now at Forestry and Land Scotland |
| Justine Domingo | Profile | Sediment and pollutant transport in the Philippines. Co-supervised with Mikael Attal and Bryne Ngwenya. Now at Univesity of Glasgow |
| Louis Kinnear | Profile | Soil weathering fluxes and clay formation rates as a function of erosion. |
| Veronica Chiarini | Department website | Terraces in karst. Now at the University of Padova Researchgate |
| Keyu Qin | Scholar | Landscape and ecosystem change, visitor from Chinese Academy of Sciences. |
| Jingya Liu | Scholar | Ecosystem services, visitor from Chinese Academy of Sciences.Researchgate |
Opportunities in the Land Surface Dynamics Group
Studentships
Our group has a wide range of both PhD and Master by research students. Our students often work collaboratively (see our publication lists: frequently papers have more than one student author) and our vibrant group meets weekly for informal talks, paper discussions, etc. We are open to enquiries about PhD projects. If you are considering doing a PhD with us, please don’t hesitate to contact some of our past or current students.
PhD
The main source of funding for our PhD students is through the E4 Doctoral Training Partnership: E4DTP
E4 studentships are open to any nationality, but there are a limited number of places for studnets who are not resident in the UK. Please see the following website for details: Applications for non UK residents
There are several other sources of potential PhD funding, and information about these can be found here: Funding sources for PhD
Masters by research
We are open to students doing a Masters by research, but we cannot supply funding for this so you will need to secure your own funding. See this link: Funding for MSc by research
Taught Masters
We welcome students in taught Masters who wish to do a thesis on topics in geomorphology. To apply for taught masters, see this website: Taught master’s at Edinburgh
Post-doctoral and Staff opportunities
If you have a PhD and want a research position with us, there are three options:
- Competitive fellowships
- Post-docs linked to funding we have received
- Funding from your country
Fellowships
We welcome enquiries about fellowships. One thing to note is that all of these fellowships are very competitive. You will need both a strong proposal and an excellent publication record. The most common fellowships are (please see links for deadlines)
- NERC fellowships. Most potential fellows apply to the Independent Research fellowships but note that other schemes have higher success rates. See the NERC website: NERC Fellowships
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships. Again, these are both prestigious and very competitive. See information here: M S-C fellowships
- Leverhulme fellowships: Leverhulme fellowship information
- Newton International fellowships: Newton fellowship information
- Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowships: RSE fellowship information
- If you are from the United States, the NSF considers post-doctoral fellowships that are based abroad. See this website for information: NSF fellowship information
Post-docs linked to Land Surface Dynamics funded projects
We occasionally have funding for post-doctoral researchers. The best way to see if any are available is to follow our twitter account: Edinburgh landsurf twitter
Funding from your country
There are many opportunities for funding from other countries (China, in particular, has many funding opportunities): if your native country has researcher funding we are happy to discuss letters of support and co-developed projects.
Visiting Students
We frequently host visiting students, researchers and staff. See this website for information: visiting student information. Please get in touch about the organising a visit. Note that we do not have funding for visitors.
Collaborations
We welcome collaborative proposals. Come and see us at conferences or drop us an e-mail!