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Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary collaborative network which is made up of over 430 academic members from across all the University’s faculties.

Emeritus Professor Keith Fox

Research interests

  • DNA Interactions
  • Triplex DNA
  • Quadruplex DNA
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Professor Keith Godfrey

Associate Dean Enterprise
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Dr Kelvin Peh

Assoc Professor of Conservation Science

Research interests

  • Kelvin Peh’s interests range from forest ecology to urban wildlife in respect of diversity and distribution. He is interested in all areas of wildlife-human conflicts and wildlife ecology in human-dominated landscapes, and in the application of his research results to the conservation/management of biological resources.
  • Tropical Forest Ecology – Kelvin’s work on monodominance in tropical tree-dominated systems - has helped rekindle scientific interest in this fascinating, yet relatively unexplored phenomenon in tropical forests. He is the principal editor of the “Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology Second Edition”, published by Routledge under its “Earthscan” imprint on 7 October 2024 (available at www.routledge.com/9781032348384).
  • Ecosystem Services – Kelvin is best known for his leading role in the development of TESSA (Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment). TESSA v3.0, published on 31 Oct 2022, is now available at https://www.birdlife.org/tessa-tools/. For the impacts of TESSA, see: https://bit.ly/4ccpken. He continues working on this ecosystem service assessment project to develop and test novel tools for rapidly assessing the net impact of site-based conservation on the provision of ecosystem services. This project runs in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, BirdLife International, Tropical Biology Association, Anglia Ruskin University and UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Currently, he is leading the ecosystem service task team of the Asian Development Bank’s Regional Flyway Initiative.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Kif Liakath-Ali MSc, MPhil, PhD.

Lecturer in Advanced Cell Biology

Research interests

  • Regulation of RNA splicing
  • RNA Splicing Misregulation in Neurodegeneration
  • Ribosomes and Alternative Splicing

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Kirsten Poore

Principal Teaching Fellow
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Professor Koushik Maharatna PhD

Prof Signal Processing System Design
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Dr Leisle Ezekiel PhD

Lecturer

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Lex Kraaijeveld

Principal Teaching Fellow
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Dr Libo Li

Lecturer in Business Analytics

Research interests

  • Time-to-event analysis
  • Text analytics
  • Network analytics 

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Liku Tezera BM, MSc , PhD, FHEA

Senior Research Fellow
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