Our people
Led by Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael Arthur and the senior officers, the University brings together 8,000 leading academics and talented support staff, all of whom have a vital part to play in our success. Here are some of their stories.
Dr Ben Murray
Leads an ERC funded, €1.66 million five-year research project – Ice Crystallisation Experiments (ICE).
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Tracy Hemingway
Joint Gold winner of inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Health and Safety was Tracy Hemingway, team leader at the Ziff Café, who tested and designed a soup cup holder for catering staff.
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Professor Jaafar Elmirghani
The funding for the INTERNET project offers us the stability and flexibility needed to address the major challenges associated with energy utilisation in telecommunication networks.
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Mollie Van Der Gucht
Tells us how she manages the new £23 million School of Earth and Environment (SEE) building.
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Chris Clegg
Putting people at the heart of systems, buildings and process design is the aim of the Centre for Socio-Technical Systems Design (CSTSD).
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Lúcia Nagib
“The Centre for World Cinemas project began in 2000, with the MA in World Cinema being introduced in 2003,” explains Professor Nagib.
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Nina Quinlan
Nina Quinlan is part of a team which is working to create a ‘well University’ – a concept which is based on the idea that the University is a community with shared values – and thinking about what a community needs to thrive.
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Phil Murphy
Earthquake activity around the world is being monitored by pupils in Yorkshire schools, thanks to specialist equipment and training provided by a team from the University’s School of Earth and Environment.
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Georgia Mavria
The new Leeds CRUK Cancer Centre is helping to coordinate all cancer research activity at the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to provide the best possible results for cancer patients worldwide.
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Brendan Davies
“Formal, internal peer review definitely leads to better grant applications and that has to have a positive impact on success rates,” says Professor Brendan Davies of the Centre for Plant Sciences (CPS).
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Edmund Linfield
Research into terahertz technology at the University has received a major boost with a €2.5 million Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council.
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Jennifer Parr and Steve Pearson
Improved risk assessment procedures mean that undergraduate international health medical students are now carrying out important fieldwork in foreign countries with more safely and with less risk to their health.
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Dr Andy Wilson
A range of designer drugs that can specifically target protein-protein interactions causing cancer is the aim behind new research being carried out by Dr Andy Wilson.
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Lisa Brannan
A new bike hub to encourage and support staff and student who wish to cycle to and from campus got off to a tremendous start.
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