SIMBIOS Team

The SIMBIOS team is a multidisciplinary group of scientists working at the bio-physical interfaces related to environmental & ecological challenges. SIMBIOS comprises physicists, mathematicians, biologists and biophysicists, covering theory and experimental aspects of environmental research.

Professor Wilfred Otten

Chair of Biophysics of Soil Ecosystems
Director of the SIMBIOS Centre

E: w.otten@abertay.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1382 308533

Professor Philippe C. Baveye

Chair of Soil Ecosystems Modelling
The SIMBIOS Centre, and

Kodak Professor of Environmental Engineering
Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

E: p.baveye@abertay.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1382 308646

Dr Andrew Spiers

Reader
Environmental & Molecular Microbiology

E: a.spiers@abertay.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1382 308730

Dr Simona M. Hapca

Lecturer in Statistics

E: s.hapca@abertay.ac.uk
T:
+44 (0)1382 308695

Dr Ruth E. Falconer

Lecturer in Modelling and Visualization

E: r.falconer@abertay.ac.uk
T:
+44 (0)1382 308459

Dr Francisco J Perez-Reche

Lecturer in Soil and Environmental Systems

E: p.perezreche@abertay.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1382 308106. Mob: 07772013781

Dr Veronica Morales

Postdoctoral Research Associate

E: v.morales@abertay.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1382 308534

Dr Jiujiang Zhu

RCUK Academic Fellow in Environmental Fluid Dynamics

E: j.zhu@abertay.ac.uk
T:
+44 (0)1382 308611

Patricia Dello Sterpaio

X-ray CT Operations Manager/Teaching Fellow

E: p.d.sterpaio@abertay.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1382 308153

John Isaacs

UWTC/SIMBIOS

Research Officer in Visualization

E: J.Isaacs@abertay.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1382 308479

Sonja Schmidt

X-ray CT Operations Manager and PDRA soil physics

E: s.schmidt@abertay.ac.uk
T:+44 1382 308329

Alasdair Houston

PhD student

E: a.houston@abertay.ac.uk
T: +44 1382 308142

Radoslaw Pajor

PhD student and Research Associate

E: r.pajor@abertay.ac.uk
T: +44 1382 308769

Helen Downie

PhD student

E: Helen.Downie@scri.ac.uk
T:+44 1382 562731

Anna Koza

Former PhD student

E: a.koza@abertay.ac.uk

Associated members

Professor Jim Bown

Institute of Arts, Media and Computer Games

Chair of Systems Biology

E: j.bown@abertay.ac.uk
T:
+44 (0)1382 308471

Michael Idowu

Researcher/PhD Student in Modelling and Complex Network Dynamics

E: m.idowu@abertay.ac.uk
T:+44 01382 30 8453