Visitors and Fellows
LEC welcomes research visitors and fellows from all over the world. Please contact the Research Director, Prof Kevin Jones, directly to discuss your interests and needs.
Current visitors/fellows
Dr Ashraf Hassanin
Visitor funded by the Egyptian Government, with interests in contaminants in foodstuffs.
Dr Jun Li
Academic visitor from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou. Research interests, air-surface exchange of contaminants.
Dr Julio Louzada
Academic visitor from the University of Lavras, Brasil. Research interests, biodiversity and tropical systems management.
Ana Martin-Vertedor
PhD student at the Agricultural Research Centre “Finca La Orden” (Badajoz-Spain) and her ongoing research focuses on irrigation scheduling, water needs and physiological responses of deciduous fruit trees in semi-arid regions. She is interested in the study of root signalling in dry soils and she is currently visiting the Plant Water Stress Research Group to investigate manipulating root signalling by altering root placement in cereals
Dr Luca Nizzetto
Marie Curie Research Fellow from Italy. Research interests, interactions between pollutants and the carbon cycle.
Dr Kate Orwin
Research fellow from New Zealand. Research interests, soil biodiversity and system functioning.
Dr Juan Gabriel Pérez-Pérez
Research Fellow at the Instituto Murciano de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario y Alimentario (Murcia, Spain) who is interested in improving water use efficiency in citrus by applying regulated deficit irrigation and partial root zone drying strategies . His visit to the , Plant Water Stress Research Group (28 September 2009 - 31 March 2010), to conduct research aimed at optimising to optimising partial rootzone drying as an irrigation technique, is funded by Fundación Séneca
Dr Mor Salomon
Royal Society-funded post-doctoral fellow working with Felix Wackers on the nutritional mechanism of food switching by an omnivorous mite and its implications for biological control. Previous work used nutrition of spiders to answer behavioural questions relating to maternal care.
Prof Omar Abdullah Al-Amoudi
A visitor from Saudi Arabia and professor in plant physiology in the Biology Department at Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He has an interest in nitrogen nutrition and assimilation in plant with the response to saline stress. He came as a visiting scientist to Lancaster University based for the excellent reputation of LEC. He is in partnership with Professor Brian Forde and Dr Ian Dodd in investigating transgenerational plasticity in plants.