Department of Geography Visiting Academics

The aim of a visiting academic is to discuss and share ideas with another academic in our department who works within the same field of interest. From this mutual collaboration may come ideas and, possibly, future projects.

Our visiting academics have a PhD degree, are carrying out research and looking to collaborate with academics in another University while they are taking a sabbatical from their home institution. However we can exceptionally accept some PhD students provided they wish to visit the Department to spend time collaborating with other academics and not as a formal element of their study programme.

The Department of Geography accepts visiting academics from a wide range of backgrounds and research fields. They can be either supported by their institutions or self-funded.

We cannot provide visiting academics with any help finding accommodation, setting up childcare facilities, or other personal welfare. Please note that the University of Cambridge does not provide childcare support to visitors. The University Accommodation service may be able to help with accommodation.

In order to be an academic visitor in the Department you need to be invited by a member of the Department academic staff.

Read about how to apply to be a Visiting Academic.

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Work Permits - If you are from a non-EU country, you need to check with your British Embassy regarding the necessity of a visa and/or work permit. The Home Office has recently changed its rules for visitors and has not yet provided a specific new channel through which a potential visitor may apply.

Current Visiting Academics in the Department:

		Ms Samia Akram Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Cavadonga Aldamiz-echevarria Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Ursula Allitt Research: (Details to follow)
		Mrs Julie Boreham, collaborating with Dr Steve Boreham Research: Julie Boreham is a Geoarchaeologist with a special interest in British Prehistory and Native American palaeo-environments of the Southwest USA. Her current research, in collaboration with Dr Steve Boreham and other members of the Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group, involves the development of new techniques and methodologies for the impregnation and thin sectioning of traditionally difficult and challenging soils and sediments using polymer-based resins.
		Ms Umera Dogar Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Betsy Donald Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Christopher Jeans, collaborating with Prof Philip Gibbard and Cambridge Quaternary Research: A geologist who specialises in Clay Mineralogy
		Dr Jianfeng Li Research: (Details to follow)
		Mr Minsu Liang Research: (Details to follow)
		Ms Lu Liu Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Anna McIvor, collaborating with Dr Tom Spencer Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Christopher Mcowen, collaborating with Dr Tom Spencer Research: (Details to follow)
		Ms Franziska Rupprecht Research: (Details to follow)
		Mrs Patricia Saunders, collaborating with Prof Keith Richards Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Jungyul Sohn, collaborating with Prof Bob Haining Research: (Details to follow)
		Mr Chunqiao Song Research: (Details to follow)

Previous Visiting Academics:

		Prof Hema Achyuthan Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Akbar Ahmed Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Sara Ahmed Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Freddy Alvarez Gonzalez Research: (Details to follow)
		Mr Shafqaat Anjum, collaborating with Prof Bob Haining Research: Research Interests: Spatial patterns of disease, Disease clustering, Spatial analysis and GIS
		Dr Evangelia Apostolopoulou Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Glenn Athey Research: Specialist in local, urban and regional economics and spatial economic policy. Currently researching the political economy of international economic development and lessons for local and regional economic development in the UK.
		Prof Mazlan Bin Hashim, collaborating with Dr Bernard Devereux Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Albertas Bitinas Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Ron Boschma, collaborating with The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (HPSS) Research: Cultural and Historical areas
		Prof Marjolein Broese van Groenou, collaborating with Prof Emily Grundy Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Dana Cerman-Stefanova, collaborating with Prof Richard Smith and The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (HPSS) Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Fei Chen Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr JiangPing Chen, collaborating with Prof Bob Haining Research: Spatial Analysis in GIS
		Dr Anne-Lise Chenet, collaborating with Prof Hans-F. Graf and Dr Clive Oppenheimer Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Sung-Eui Cho, collaborating with Prof Robert Bennett Research: Customer needs of geographical accessibility in electronic commerce; Information technology use and globalization in service industry; the role of knowledge hub and innovation in industrial clusters
		Dr Federico Cinquepalmi, collaborating with Dr Gloria Pungetti Research: Technological support to integrated coastal management, biodiversity conservation and impact assessment of human activities. Establishment and management of coastal protected areas, safeguard of landscape and seascape in coastal zones. Bio-cultural diversity conservation with particular attention to the Mediterranean Basin
		Dr Karenjit Clare Research: (Details to follow)
		Ms Hilary Cooper, collaborating with Prof Richard Smith Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Catherine Corson, collaborating with Prof Bill Adams Research: Biodiversity in Madagascar; Institutional Ethnographies of Bilateral Foreign Aid Agencies; Transnational Biodiversity Politics
		Dr Shari Daya Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Xiang Deng, collaborating with Prof Bob Haining Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Renzo Derosas Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Lisa Dillon, collaborating with The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (HPSS) Research: Cultural and Historical areas
		Prof Shihong Du, collaborating with Prof Bob Haining Research: Spatial-temporal reasoning and analysis, especially the scale and undertain issues in spatial reasoning and analysis
		Dr Shelly Egoz, collaborating with Dr Gloria Pungetti Research: (Details to follow)
		Miss Ge Erjia, collaborating with Prof Bob Haining Research: Spatial and temporal analysis of the spread of avian influenza A H5N1
		Ms Barbara Revuelta Eugercios, collaborating with Prof Richard Smith and The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (HPSS) Research: Cultural and Historical areas
		Mr Andrew Friedman, collaborating with Dr Michael Herzog Research: Atmospheric Processes
		Prof Xiang Gao, collaborating with Prof Bob Haining Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Emmanuel Garnier Research: (Details to follow)
		Ms Lydia Gentsch, collaborating with Dr Andrew Friend Research: (Details to follow)
		Mr Tobias Gerken, collaborating with Prof Hans-F. Graf Research: Mesoscale modelling of atmospheric flow, clouds, precipitation and radiation within the framework of the Tibetan Plateau research Project (TiP).
		Prof Katherine Gough, collaborating with Dr Tim Bayliss-Smith Research: Urban, social and economic geography of developing countries, with fieldwork in West Africa, Latin America and, most recently, Solomon Islands. In Cambridge she worked with Tim Bayliss-Smith on continuity and change in Ontong Java atoll, 1970-2006.
		Dr Max Graham Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Huang Guangyao, collaborating with Prof Richard Smith Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Annelise Hagan, collaborating with Dr Tom Spencer Research: (Details to follow)
		Ms Sarah Hamylton, collaborating with Dr Tom Spencer Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Rafael Herrer, collaborating with Prof Richard Smith and The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (HPSS) Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Philip Hughes, collaborating with Prof Philip Gibbard and Cambridge Quaternary Research: Glacial geomorphology and Quaternary Science - The glacial history of the Mediterranean mountains - Developing a project on the glacial history of the Atlas Mountains, North Africa
		Prof Marcia Inhorn Research: (Details to follow)
		Mr Adriaan Janszen Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Sheila Jasanoff, collaborating with Prof Susan Owens and The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (HPSS) Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Allen Kabagenyi Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Jan Kalvoda, collaborating with Prof Keith Richards and Prof Philip Gibbard and Cambridge Quaternary Research: Physical geography in relation to geomorphology
		Prof Cindi Katz Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Ruth Kerry, collaborating with Prof Bob Haining Research: Ruth Kerry is researching the application of geostatistical methods to crime data with Professor Haining. They are currently editing a special issue of Geographical Analysis showing the application of a range geostatistical methods for problem solving in Geography, particularly in those areas where the data has traditionally been thought unsuitable. Her other research involves the application of geostatistical methods to soil and imagery data, especially for problem solving in precision agriculture. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Geography from the University of Oxford and MSc and PhD degrees in Soil Spatial Analysis from the University of Reading. She is currently an Associate Lecturer in Geography at Brigham Young University, Utah, USA.
		Ms Ingrid Kielland, collaborating with Dr Mia Gray Research: Ingrid is working on a PhD-project regarding constructions of place and citizenship in connection to place branding. The empirical focus is on Tromsø, the largest town and regional centre of Northern Norway, and its bid for hosting the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. The research will explore how citizenship and place is represented and negotiated through the local debate over the Olympic bid. One basic premise of the project is that place and citizenship are seen constitutive and constructive of each other.
		Mr Jonathan 'Yotti' Kingsley, collaborating with Dr Steve Trudgill Research: PhD student at Deakin University in Australia with Associate Professor Mardie Townsend on the health and wellbeing benefit of the natural environment with a focus on marginalised groups. Whilst he is here in the UK, he has a specific idea for a project to develop a tool that can measure the wellbeing benefits of the natural landscape that is culturally appropriate to a number of different groups in England and Australia. He has previously worked for the state government in Victoria (Australia) as a Senior Policy Officer (Indigenous Health) and has been working for the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled health Organisation setting up a public health unit. He completed a First class honours and masters in ecological health with a focus on Aboriginal Australians connection to their Traditional land, and has also been published in peer-reviewed journals on the health benefits of the natural landscape.
		Miss Zsofia Kugler Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Thijs Lambrecht, collaborating with Prof Richard Smith and The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (HPSS) Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Sarachchandra Lele, collaborating with Dr Bhaskar Vira Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Han She Lim, collaborating with Prof Keith Richards Research: (Details to follow)
		Mr Ming Luo Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Catherine MacKinnon Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Vasiliki Margari, collaborating with Prof Philip Gibbard and Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group (QPG) Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Jordi Marti-Henneberg Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Virginie Martin, collaborating with Dr Mia Gray Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr David Mayhew Research: (Details to follow)
		Ms Isabel Melo Vasquez Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Shangxiong Meng Research: (Details to follow)
		Mr William Nash Research: (Details to follow)
		Mr Tobias Nyumba Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Jerome Ogee, collaborating with Dr Andrew Friend Research: (Details to follow)
		Antti Pasanen, collaborating with Prof Philip Gibbard Research: (Details to follow)
		Ms Marta Pasquato, collaborating with Dr Andrew Friend Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Bo Poulsen, collaborating with The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (HPSS) Research: Cultural and Historical areas
		Dr Gloria Pungetti Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Bingwen Qiu, collaborating with Prof Bob Haining Research: Geograpical Information Sciences; main focus on spatial variation of multi-resolution imagery and multi-scale land use change analysis and modelling.
		Dr Mizanur Rahaman, collaborating with Prof Keith Richards Research: My research focuses on integrated water resources management, transboundary river basin institutions, environmental conflicts and global water policies. Geographical focuses of my research include Central Asia, South Asia and Europe. I am currently involved in following projects: 1. Integrated Water Resources Management in Large Asian River Basins (Funded by Academy of Finland) 2. Shared Water, Shared Opportunities (Funded by Soil and Water Foundation, Finland)
		Dr Filippo Randelli, collaborating with Prof Ron Martin Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Rosangela Reis, collaborating with Prof Keith Richards Research: Remote sensing and GIS applied to the understanding of physical processes in basins, especially sediment production and transportation.
		Dr Eddie Rhodes, collaborating with Prof Philip Gibbard Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Felix Riede Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr John Robinson, collaborating with Prof Nigel Leader-Williams Research: Chief Conservation Officer and Executive Vice-President, Conservation and Science, Joan L.Tweedy Chair in Conservation Strategy (The Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York)
		Ms Sushmita Saha, collaborating with Prof Keith Richards Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Osamu Saito, collaborating with Prof Richard Smith and Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor and The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (HPSS) Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Khairulmaini Salleh, collaborating with Prof Keith Richards Research: Transnational Environmental Issues and Policy Implications
		Prof Veli-Pekka Salonen Research: (Details to follow)
		Mr Wilko Schroeter, collaborating with The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (HPSS) Research: Cultural and Historical areas
		Dr Kristina Schulz Research: (Details to follow)
		Mr Pablo Sendra, collaborating with Prof Ash Amin Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Tokihiko Settsu Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Zhou Shi Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Yoshifumi Shimizu Research: Learning how to reconstruct a parish by using the parish register and census schedule in the UK
		Prof Sergei Snizhko, collaborating with Prof Hans-F. Graf Research: Atmospheric Processes
		Mr Dominik Sperlich Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Aki Suzuki, collaborating with Dr Philip Howell and The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (HPSS) Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Francisco Tapiador, collaborating with Prof Richard Smith Research: (Details to follow)
		Ms Monica Tongya Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Maryline Vautravers, collaborating with Prof Philip Gibbard Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Carlos Vilalta, collaborating with Prof Bob Haining Research: I examine the spatial and temporal elements of criminal behavior and fear of crime. My current project, Geography of Crime in Mexico, is a public funded academic program that combines teaching, research, and the development of GIS for crime policy purposes. I am preparing several papers on journey-to-crime estimation, the spatiality of judicial data, and writing a reference book on statistics for social science students. I obtained a Ph.D. in Urban Studies from Portland State University. I am an Associate Professor at the Centre for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) in Mexico City.
		Dr Amanda Vincent Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Jinfeng Wang Research: (Details to follow)
		Ms Lingxiao Wang Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Douglas Wiebe, collaborating with Prof Bob Haining Research: Injury epidemiology and the impact of daily activities and geography on health risks
		Mr Matteo Willeit Research: (Details to follow)
		Alice Wolfram Research: (Details to follow)
		Dr Chiaki Yamamoto, collaborating with Prof Richard Smith and Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor and The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (HPSS) Research: Economic History with a special interest in living standards and job opportunities of female rural workers in the early nineteenth century
		Dr Jian Yang, collaborating with Dr Michael Herzog Research: (Details to follow)
		Ms Anna Zavadskaya Research: (Details to follow)
		Ms Chen Zeng Research: (Details to follow)
		Mr Wei Zhang, collaborating with Prof Hans-F. Graf Research: (Details to follow)
		Prof Tong-qian Zhao, collaborating with Prof Keith Richards Research: Hydrological and ecological processes of small watershed and riparian wetland; production of surface runoff and teh agricultural non-point source pollution in catchment by field investigation and modelling.