People
The Earth Evolution Modelling group is made up of staff and students at the University of Leeds, in Yorkshire, UK. We welcome applications to join our group for paid summer internships, PhD study or postdoctoral fellowships. See the join page for more information.
Professor Benjamin Mills // Chair in Earth System Evolution
Ben has led the group since it was founded in 2016. He introduced the SCION model – the first 3D Earth System Model to operate over planertary timescales.
Dr Khushboo Gurung // Research Fellow
Khushboo is a vegetation modeller who uses linked climate-biogeochemistry-ecology simulations to explore the coupled evolution of plants and the Earth.
Dr Zhen (Jane) Xu // Research Fellow
Jane is a palaeobotanist who reconstructs ancient plant biospheres, with a particular interest in plant extinction events, and biosphere response to environmental change.
Dr Alexander Krause // Research Fellow
Alex is a biogeochemical modeller who explores the major changes in Earth’s oxygen, carbon and sulfur cycles, as well as the critical process of continental weathering.
Dr Stephen Hunter // Research Fellow
Steve is a physical climate modeller who is an expert in fully-coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models and their application to deep time.
Dr Frederick Bowyer // Research Fellow
Fred is a geochemist and stratigrapher who studies ancient global environmental changes and their relationship to increases in biospheric complexity.
Dr Yinggang Zhang // Research Fellow
Yinggang is a geochemist and biogeochemical modeller who is investigating major changes in Earth’s environment during the early evolution of animals.
Chiara Krewer // PhD student
Chiara’s PhD project focuses on changes to ocean redox and nutrient cycling during Cretaceous ocean anoxic events.
Yuxuan Wang // PhD student
Yuxuan’s PhD project is centered around anoxic events and isotope excursions in the Paleozoic.
Chong He // PhD student
Chong’s PhD project focuses on the mid Proterozoic, and how lower atmospheric oxygen levels may have impacted nutrient cycling and biosphere productivity.
Nicholas Hadjigavriel // PhD student
Nicholas’s PhD project aims to combine models for animal ecology and evolutionwith our current Earth Evolution modelling approaches to explore evolution of animal size over the Phanerozoic.