Dr Philip Collins
Deputy Dean (Academic Affairs)/Reader
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
Topics
- Soil mechanics and change
- Ice growth impacts on soil properties
- Quaternary geology and landforms
- Sea level change
- Engineering materials
Research supervision
Komeil Valipourian (1st supervisor) - PhD in progress - Soil modification, stability and change
Megs Watfa (2md supervisor) - PhD in progress - Igneous petrological evaluation of mantle/crustal evolution
Ammar Alhalaki - PhD in progress - Behaviour of reinforced alkali-activated concrete beams under long-term loading
Amy Flynn (1st supervisor) - PhD 2022 - Evaluation of superficial hollows in the London Basin.
Alaa Al-Isawi (1st supervisor) - PhD 2021 - Soil-Structure Interaction of High-Rise Building resting on clay Soil
Hassan Ahmad (2nd supervisor) - PhD 2021 - Novel composite materials
Georgios Chatzopoulos (1st supervisor) - PhD 2019- Geodynamic and Seismological Investigation of the South Hellenic Arc Structure
Fauzi Saeed (2nd supervisor) - PhD 2019 - Fundamental study to quantify the combined interaction of tyre-water-pavement on asphalt surface performance
Assel Sarembayeva (1st supervisor) - PhD 2017 - Evaluation of de-icing chemicals and moisture mass transfer in freezing soils.
Samantha Bromfield (external supervisor) - PhD 2017 - Assessing the genesis of Relict Periglacial Ramparted Depressions (RDRDs) by characterising internal structures macroscopically and microscopically. (University of Brighton)
Ghadeer Alfandi (2nd supervisor) - PhD 2106 - Identification and initial risk assessment of housing projects in Kuwait
Alaeddin Ghamsi (2nd supervisor) - PhD 2016 - Assessment of the impact of contract type on project success in Libya
Buba Apagu (2nd supervisor) - PhD 2014 - Assessment and exploitation of groundwater resources from shallow wells, Nigeria
Nihad Salih (1st Supervisor) - PhD 2013 - Stability of dams on problematic substrates
Dasong Dai (2nd Supervisor) - PhD 2012 - Development of novel construction materials using nano technology
Despina Kalisperi (2nd Supervisor) - PhD 2010 - Geophysical assessment of salinization of a coastal aquifer, Crete.
Charlotte Miller (2nd Supervisor) - MPhil 2010 - Sedimentary record of high magnitude events in the Sea of Oman
Margarita Moisidi (2nd Supervisor) - PhD 2010 - Geophysical assessment of active faults, western Crete, Greece.
Andy Moir (2nd Supervisor) - PhD 2008 - The Dendroclimatology of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in the peatlands of Northern Scotland
Phillip Teasdale (1st Supervisor) - PhD 2005 - The Late Holocene evolution of coastal wetlands in Argyll, Western Scotland (a radiometric dating and geochemical study)
Simon Turner (1st Supervisor) - PhD 2000 - High resolution reconstruction of microtidal wetlands, south east Sicily, over the last 100 years.