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Join us for an exciting event in room 4013 in the Centenary Building at the University of Southampton, where we will be hosting a series of engaging lectures from newly appointed Professors at the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences.
During the event, our Professors will present a lecture to highlight their research, real-world impact and future research directions.
At our first event on Thursday 10th April 2025, Professor Joanna Nield from the School of Geography and Environmental Science and Professor Ivo Tews from the School of Biological Sciences will be presenting their research.
Professor Jo Nield is an Aeolian Geomorphologist who has pioneered the use of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) to understand dynamic processes in aeolian environments (both dune fields and dusty landscapes), recognised by the Royal Geographical Society’s Gill Memorial Award in 2016 for ‘outstanding early career research in aeolian processes and arid landform development’.
In 2007 she moved to Southampton to start a Lectureship and continued her interests in aeolian landscapes initially via modelling and later with fieldwork. She has been leading the second year BSc field course to Tenerife for over a decade which won the Most Innovative and Creative Virtual Learning Environment Award in 2022 when the field course switched to an online Namibia version during the pandemic.
She is currently President Elect for the International Society for Aeolian Research, having served on several British Society for Geomorphology committees, as a science officer for the EGU Geomorphology Division and also as an Associate Editor for three international journals.
Ivo Tews is Professor in Structural Biology and actively involved in methods development for macro-molecular crystallography, working together with the Diamond Light Source (Harwell), the UK-XFEL hub, and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France.
He presently chairs the Collaborative Computing Project No. 4 (CCP4) in software development with more than 20,000 academic and over 160 industrial licensees worldwide.
At Southampton, he built the facility for Macromolecular Crystallisation in Biology, and works together with colleagues in the National Biofilms Innovation Centre, in Oceanography, the National Crystallography Service in Chemistry, and with Medicine, with particularly strong links to the Centre for Cancer Immunology.
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