Affiliates

In addition to core staff, 4CMR has a number of Affiliates - located elsewhere at the University of Cambridge and at other institutions - who bring a wealth of expertise and experience that are not fully available amongst the core staff. Affiliates are not members of 4CMR staff, although many hold formal appointments elsewhere at the University of Cambridge. They connect us to organisations outside 4CMR with whom we partner in research. Affiliates carry no formal responsibilities to 4CMR, but they are our first invitees to participate in 4CMR events, collaborate in research proposals, jointly conduct research, draw on 4CMR facilities and resources to conduct that research where approved by the Director, develop Briefing Papers from their ideas and findings, and co-supervise students (if they are members of the research or teaching staff of the University of Cambridge).

Professor Chris Howe: Christopher Howe is Professor of Plant and Microbial Biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge. He has thirty years' research experience in the biochemistry and molecular biology of photosynthetic organisms. He is particularly interested in the processes of photosynthetic electron transfer by which plants and algae are able to turn light energy into chemical energy. He was a founder member of the Algal Bioenergy Consortium, where his research aims to understand how photosynthesis in algal cells can be manipulated to enhance their use for renewable energy production.

Professor David Newbery: David Newbery is an Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge and Research Director of the Cambridge Electricity Policy Research Group. Educated at Cambridge with degrees in Mathematics and Economics, President of the European Economic Association in 1996, awarded the IAEE 2002 Outstanding Contributions to the Profession of Energy Economics Award. Formerly economic advisor to Ofgem, Ofwat, and to the Office of Rail Regulation, member of the Competition Commission, chairman of the Dutch Electricity Market Surveillance Committee, currently member of the academic panel of environmental economists, DEFRA. He has recently advised DECC and the House of Commons on Electricity Market Reform, and Ofgem on transmission price reforms. He has managed research projects on utility privatisation and regulation, electricity restructuring and market design, transmission access pricing, and has active research on climate change policies, merger analysis in energy markets and the design of energy policy and energy taxation. Recent books include A European Market for Electricity? (with others), and Privatization, Restructuring and Regulation of Network Utilities. He is guest editor of The Energy Journal (2005) issue on European electricity liberalisation, and recently honoured with Papers in Honor of David Newbery: The future of electricity¸ in The Energy Journal (2008).

Dr Andrew Friend: Andrew Friend is a plant ecophysiologist who has spent much of his career developing process-based models of how plants and ecosystem function in order to address questions ranging from physiological controls on the allocation of carbon and nitrogen within individuals to global feedbacks between terrestrial ecosystems and climate. His interests concern controls on terrestrial vegetation type, structure, and productivity over a wide range of time and space scales and the effects of vegetation on atmospheric processes through land surface energy partitioning and carbon fluxes. He develops numerical models in order to test our understanding of processes through the ability of these models to faithfully simulate real-world phenomena, as well as address concerns regarding the effects of global change on terrestrial ecosystems and potential future atmospheric feedbacks. He continues to develop an individual-based model of vegetation dynamics, HYBRID, with the aim of producing processed-based representations of land surface processes for coupling to global-scale atmospheric models. His current work is particularly concerned with the representation of physiological differences between plant types and species, the representation of competition, and the global-scale dynamics of biogeochemistry-climate interactions. He is also working on the development of simple approaches to modelling global climate-biogeochemistry feedbacks over different timescales. Visit his website.

Professor Phil Gibbard: Phil Gibbard is Professor of Quaternary Palaeoenvironments at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. His main interest is in Pleistocene and Neogene Geology, sedimentation and the construction of stratigraphy using appropriate litho-, bio- and chronostratigraphical methods to establish the changing palaeogeography and palaeoenvironment for any particular area. As a geologist, Phil is principally involved with the Quaternary and late Neogene, including its palaeogeographical and palaeoenvironmental evolution, with interests spanning the terrestrial (glacial, fluvial and lacustrine) and shallow marine realms. His studies have mainly focused on Europe, but he has conducted research in North America, the Mediterranean, South Asia and South America. His approach is based on the rigorous stratigraphy of sedimentary sequences, using a wide range of techniques, and its purpose is to develop detailed frameworks which have provided the basis for palaeoenvironmental, palaeoecological and palaeogeographical reconstructions. Visit his website.

Dr Markus Gehring: Markus Gehring is Deputy Director at the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) and Tutor in Sustainable Development Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. He also serves as Lead Counsel for Trade, Investment and Financial Law with the Centre of International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Montreal and he holds an ad personam Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. He is also a Fellow in Law at Robinson College. He represented the CISDL at climate negotiations in The Hague, Milan, Montreal, Copenhagen & Cancun and several other international conferences. He served on the Research Committee of the IUCN Academy for Environmental Law. Dr Gehring has published on various aspects of economic, European and climate change law. He has published several books including most recently with MC Cordonier Segger and Andrew Newcombe, Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (Kluwer Law International 2010).

Professor Peter Wadhams: Peter Wadhams is Professor of Ocean Physics at DAMTP and formerly Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute. He is a specialist on sea ice and polar oceanography and has run a research group in this area for 35 years, with a strong emphasis on field operations (he has led 43 field expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic). His work has ranged over the properties of the marginal ice zone; the interaction of ocean waves with ice; the dynamics of icebergs; polar water masses, currents and eddies; sea ice physical properties; the mechanisms of deep ocean convection at high latitudes; and the thickness of sea ice. His main current interest is in the ice thickness distribution in the Arctic and the reasons for sea ice thinning and retreat. He has pioneered the use of AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) to measure under-ice topography and has worked with the Royal Navy since the 1970s in carrying out ice thickness measurement work from Navy submarines on Arctic deployments. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, Copenhagen.

Professor Hans-F Graf: Hans-F Graf significantly contributed to progress in three fields: Volcanic impact on climate, global scale atmospheric dynamics, and clouds and aerosols. His most influential work is in volcanic effects on climate and atmospheric composition. Early analysis and simulations predicted “continental winter warming” as a consequence of big tropical volcanic eruptions that was later confirmed by many other authors. Investigations of processes within volcanic plumes were performed with ATHAM, the very high resolving model developed in
HFG's group at MPI for Meteorology, also covering biomass burning. The papers on the effect of silent and weakly eruptive volcanic emissions had a strong impact on volcanologists and atmospheric chemists alike. In 1990 he started working with Judith Perlwitz on the dynamical coupling of troposphere and stratosphere and its relevance for the North Atlantic Oscillation. He also very early investigated, using coupled climate models, the individual and combined effects of El Niño and volcanic eruptions. Currently he is working on different effects of two types of El Nino on mainly European weather and climate and the underlyiing mechanisms. The current end-product of his research on improved cloud modelling capacities is the Convective Cloud Field Model, a new convection parametrization based on self-organization principles.

Dr Mike Bithell: Mike Bithell's current research is based on computational techniques for the representation and analysis of systems consisting of interacting discrete components, including smooth particle hydrodynamic fluid, individual-based ecological and agent-based social systems models. The aim is to work toward understanding the interaction of environmental processes with human systems, and the adaptation of social dynamics to environmental change.

Dr Aideen Foley: Aideen Foley is a post-doctoral researcher (Marie Curie Experienced Researcher) within the Department of Geography in Cambridge. She has a background in mathematics and physics, and a PhD from the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. Her doctoral research focused on evaluation of regional climate models. Her current research utilizes Earth system models to determine the extent to which various biogeochemical and socioeconomic processes contribute to uncertainty in the evolution of the coupled Earth
system.

Dr. Şerban Scrieciu: Serban Scrieciu is currently a project manager on climate economics and methodology development for climate policy planning at the United Nations Environment Programme in Paris. He has a background in development economics, and a PhD from The University of Manchester on the economy and the environment in the agricultural sector during transition in Romania. Prior to UNEP, Serban has been working on macro-econometric hybrid modelling of climate mitigation policies at 4CMR, University of Cambridge. His research interests include: the epistemology of economic theories and implications for more sustainable development pathways; the economics of climate change mitigation and adaptation; deforestation, agricultural development and collective action; and the economics of post-Communist transition. He is particularly interested in the evolution of new economics elements into mainstream economics and the potential for stronger interdisciplinary links particularly with sociology and ecology.

Michael Herzog: Michael Herzog is an atmospheric scientist with a background in physics and a PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany. Before joining the Department of Geography as University lecturer in Cambridge he worked for a number of years as a research scientist at the University of Michigan and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey. His research interests develop around the interactions between dynamical and microphysical processes in the atmosphere. To study those interactions he applies and develops numerical models and process modules. Research activities include the development of atmospheric models from local to global scales, the modelling of convective clouds and plumes, the role of convection in the climate system, and the impact of aerosols on dynamical and microphysical processes.

Jan Fehse: Jan Fehse is an ecologist who has spent over ten years working directly in relation to carbon forestry projects in the framework of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and voluntary carbon standards, being closely involved with project design and formulation, carbon modeling, financial structuring and credit commercialization. Jan worked for 10 years with leading carbon project aggregator and broker EcoSecurities and is now an independent consultant. Jan has on-the-ground field experience with the technical and scientific aspects of quantification and monitoring of carbon dynamics in forest systems. In addition, Jan has in-depth knowledge of the global carbon market and global climate change policy, in particular in relation to the land use and forestry sector, and has run various courses and workshops in this field. He has worked with numerous carbon forestry projects around the world, for a wide range of clients from governments, multilateral and development organizations, to NGOs and the private sector. In addition, Jan has led on or has otherwise been involved in various market studies, policy analyses, and technical studies related to carbon forestry and ecosystem services markets.

Dr Emily Shuckburgh: Emily Shuckburgh leads the Open Oceans research group at the British Antarctic Survey, which is focused on understanding the role of the polar oceans in the global climate system. She is a climate scientist who has worked at Ecole Normal Superieure in Paris and at MIT, as well as at the University of Cambridge. Her personal research concerns atmosphere and ocean dynamics. She is currently focusing her efforts on understanding the circulation of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica and of the Arctic Ocean and their influences on global climate. She taken part in a number of observational campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctic and is at present leading an assessment of the representation of southern hemisphere atmosphere and ocean processes in the climate models to be included in the next IPCC report. At the University of Cambridge she is a faculty member of the Climate Leadership Programme and teaches on a range of courses offered by the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership. At present she is undertaking a part-time secondment as a scientific advisor to the UK Government's Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Dr Neil Harris: Neil Harris' research interests have been based around the analysis and understanding of atmospheric measurements. Areas of interest include long-term trends in ozone, chemical depletion of stratospheric ozone in polar regions (particularly the Arctic), structure of the tropical atmosphere and measurements of trace gases. Until 2010 his main responsibility was the coordination of European research on stratospheric ozone and the UTLS. Currently, his main research interest is the atmospheric chemistry of short-lived halocarbons in the tropical atmosphere, with an emphasis on our own measurement of short-lived halocarbon concentrations in the marine boundary layer in the SE Asian and West Pacific region, iinterpreted in the framework of other measurements sets and with models. He is developing a technique to verify agricultural emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) as the basis for estimating agricultural emission reductions as anticipated after 2018.

Dr Catherine MacKenzie: Catherine MacKenzie is University Lecturer in International Environmental Law at the University of Cambridge. She is also an Academic Fellow of the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple. A member of the Bar of England and Wales and Australia, she has practised law in UK, Hong Kong and Australia and been employed by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and United Nations. Her research focuses the relationship between international law and environmental protection and she has particular interests in international forest law, climate change obligations, and the implementation and enforcement of environmental obligations by international courts and tribunals. She coordinates the Cambridge MPhil and LLM paper in International Environmental Law, supervises PhD research, and lectures on the Masters in Sustainability Leadership.

Professor Mike Bickle: Mike Bickle is Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, with a specialism in tectonics and geochemistry. His research combines field based, petrological and geochemical research projects with physical modelling in order to understand better the important processes which control global evolution. Most of the research has been related to tectonic processes within the solid Earth but most recently he has been working on solid earth-hydrosphere-atmosphere interactions. This work investigates the controls on long-term climate change through an understanding of river chemistry. The major long-term mechanism for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is through weathering of silicates on the continents with the CO2 transported by rivers to the ocean where it is deposited as a carbonate. This research examines how much the erosive exhumation of the Himalayas is responsible for climatic cooling over the last 50 myr.

Dr Rachel Warren: Rachel Warren is NERC Fellow Leader, Community Integrated Assessment System (CIAS) & Leader of Ecosystem Services at the Tyndall Centre of the University of East Anglia. She has a longstanding interest in policy-relevant environmental science, particularly the application of integratedmodelling to the study of the economics and environmental benefits of climate policy. She contributed to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process, and sits on the UK Climate Impacts Program Steering Committee. She also contributed to the selection of appropriate replacements for ozone-depleting substances, the inclusion of fully fluorinated compounds in the Kyoto protocol, and influenced the scientific design of the UN Economic Commission for Europe’s Oslo and Gothenburg Protocols. She has published over 30 peer reviewed papers and chapters in edited books and produced over 25 policy relevant reports for HM Treasury, UN ECE, DEFRA, and the Environment Agency.

Dr Rosamund Thomas: Rosamund Thomas is Director of the Centre for Business and Public Sector Ethics, Cambridge. She has researched and edited a major pioneering book entitled “Environmental Ethics” which covers a range of ethical and other dilemmas facing environmental and energy decision-makers. Currently, Dr Thomas is beginning research on a follow -up book in this “Environmental Ethics” series, which will focus on new competing and conflicting environmental interests in need of reconciliation. She is a member of the International Bar Association and Chair of a Research Group of the International Political Science Association, as well as a life member of Cambridge University. Visit the Centre for Business and Public Sector Ethics website.

David Fell: David Fell is director and co-founder of the London-based research and strategy consultancy Brook Lyndhurst. He is an economist with more than 20 years' research and strategy experience for clients in the government, private and not-for-profit sectors. His work is concerned, in particular, with the development of strategies and policies for promoting changes in individual and institutional behaviour to bring about a more sustainable economy. His recent work has included investigations of: how the public's understanding of climate change feeds through to their everyday behaviours; the nature and extent of environmental inequalities; the meaning of, and potential development paths towards, a 'green economy'; how future lifestyles might impact on the environment; the nature and significance of the 'gap' between expressed preferences and observed behaviour; and the factors that influence how new environmental behaviours do or do not diffuse through social networks. Visit his website.

Dr Dabo Guan: Dabo Guan is a Senior Lecturer at Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, and Senior Member and Director of Studies in Economics of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge with good experience of sustainability studies and a proven track record of high quality publications in international peer reviewed journals. He specialises in international climate change policies for mitigation, climate change adaptation, scenario analysis on environmental impacts, water resources accounting and management, input-output modelling and their applications in both developed and developing countries. He is a Lead Author for the Working Group III (WG III) to the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Chapter 14 on “Regional Development and Cooperation”.

Dr Stanislav Shmelev: Stanislav Shmelev is an ecological economist whose research interests are in the areas of theoretical and applied aspects of ecological economics, macro-sustainability assessment, ecological-economic modelling at international, national and regional levels, sustainable urban and regional development, sustainable energy and waste management, corporate sustainability, complex systems science, as well as sustainable development in the European Union and Russia. Dr Shmelev was a Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford (2008-2009), held Visiting Professorships at the University of Paris (2009) and the University of Geneva (2007). He is collaborating with a range of international organizations:OECD, UNEP, UNDP, IUCN and has given invited lectures in Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Switzerland and the UK. His two new books on Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice, and Sustainability Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach may be seen at his website.

Dr Elisabete Silva: Elisabete Silva's research interests are centred on the application of new technologies in spatial planning, in particular city and metropolitan dynamic modelling through time using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), other Planning Support Systems (PPS) and AI Models (CA/ABM/GA). She is a University Lecturer in Planning at the Department of Land Economy (University of Cambridge), a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Charter Surveyors (FRICS) and a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI).

Jasper Sky: Jasper Sky is a project manager whose interests are in ‘triple-win’ policy strategies: policies that are constructive on environmental, social welfare, and economic prosperity criteria. After recently completing three years at the University of Oxford’s School of Geography and Environment as coordinator of the Dangerous Climate Change Assessment Project, which collected views of scientific experts on the vulnerability of several major Earth systems to climate change driven phase transitions (see report), he is now collaborating with Prof. Steve Keen (UWS) and others in a drive to develop realist macro-economic models (stock-flow non-equilibrium systems dynamics models) that will enable the testing of economic policy hypotheses – specifically, the characterisation of the macro-economic and environmental impacts of specific proposed ‘green growth’ financial mechanisms, in an effort to identify promising triple-win policies. Jasper has an MSc in resource and environmental management (SFU), and a BSc in maths and physics (UBC). He is a Fellow of E3 Foundation.