Team

Current Team

Dr Otti Croze (Principal investigator)

Jason Bains (DTP PhD scholar)

Caitlin de Vries (One Planet DTP PhD scholar)

Ellen Green (MSP summer student)

2026 team. Jason Bains, Caitlin De Vries, Ellen Green, OAC (Photo by C. Sutcliffe)
2025 team. Front row: Mark Carter, Alex Johnson (honorary member), Caitlin De Vries. Back row: OAC and Jason Bains (Photo by C. Sutcliffe)
2024 team. Left to right: Alex Johnson, Jason Bains, Stephen Donegan, OAC, Kez Rebekah, Lewis Hunter. (Photo by C. Sutcliffe)

Collaborators in Newcastle and beyond

Dr Gary Caldwell (School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University)

Dr Melody Sandells (Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University)

Dr Adam Wollman (Newcastle University Biosciences Institute)

Dr Andrew Baggaley (School of Mathematical Sciences, Lancaster University)

Dr Matt Davey (Scottish Association for Marine Science)

Prof Martin Bees (Department of Mathematics, University of York)

Dr Laurence Wilson (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York)

Alumni

PhD students and fellows

Dr Praneet Prakash (Newton Bhabha Fellow at at the Cavendish Laboratory, now Assistant Professor at IIT Kanpur)

Dr Theresa Jakuszeit (PhD student at the Cavendish Laboratory, now Postdoc Fellow at the Insitut Curie)

Dr Hannah Laeverenz Schlogelhofer (PhD student at the Cavendish Laboratory, now Postdoc Fellow at the Living Systems Institute, Exeter)

Dr Di Jin (PhD student at the Cavendish Laboratory, now Assistant Professor at the City University of Honk Hong)

Stephen Donegan (Bell Burnell PhD scholar)

Project students

Mark Carter (MPhys Physics project student)

Kez Rebekah (BSc Physics project student)

Lewis Hunter (BSc Physics project student)

Nicole Kirkbride (BSci Physics project student)

Alfie Masters (BSci Physics project student)

Summer students

Ealish Green (One Planet summer student, in collaboration with Mel Sandells)