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| Dr Paul Race | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Biological Chemistry, School of Biochemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in natural products synthesised by the polyketide and related non-ribosomal peptide pathways. My research... |
| Keywords: | structure function and engineering of polyketide synthases | hybrid polyketide/non-ribosomal peptide antibiotics and anticancer drugs | polyketide based cholesterol lowering agents |
| Professor Jonas Rademacker | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Physics, School of Physics |
| Areas of expertise: | My particle physics research focuses on "quark flavour physics" at the LHCb experiment at CERN and the (now closed) CLEO-c... |
| Keywords: | LHCb | Flavour Physics | B physics | CP violation | Charm Physics | Dalitz Plots | matter antimatter asymmetry | CKM matrix |
| Professor Andy Radford | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Behavioural Ecology, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am primarily interested in behavioural ecology and bioacoustics. My research group currently pursue two main themes. The... |
| Keywords: | social behaviour | vocal communication | anthropogenic noise | information use | group decision-making | bird behaviour | development of behaviour | group-living |
| Professor Athimalaipet Ramanan | |
| Post(s): | Honorary Professor, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My current research focus is on novel biological therapies for children with arthritis and Uveitis. I am also working on... |
| Keywords: | Randomised controlled trials in paediatric rheumatology | Paediatric Uveitis Immunomodulatory therapy | Trials of novel biological agents including using adaptive designs | musculoskeletal problems in children | kawasaki disease |
| Professor Kuda Ranatunga | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | Our research is aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms of muscle contraction through experimental work and modelling.... |
| Keywords: | muscle contraction | cyclical interaction of myosin motors | muscle visco-elasticity | Shortening and lengthening muscle | temperature effects on muscle |
| Professor Andy Randall | |
| Post(s): | Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Our group is interested in the neurophysiological changes associated with neurological disease, in particular Alzheimer’s... |
| Keywords: | neurophysiological changes | neurological disease | Alzheimer's disease | epilepsy | estrogen-receptor signalling | CNS nicotinic receptors | group I metabotropic glutamate receptors |
| Dr Sean Rands | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research explores how evolution has shaped the behaviour and life histories of animals and plants, using a mixture of... |
| Keywords: | behaviour | evolution | sociality in animals | predation | ecology | decision-making | wildlife biology | behavioural ecology |
| Professor John Rarity | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Optical Communication Systems, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a quantum optician. I develop technologies for single photon optics, sources and detectors. My colleagues and I have... |
| Keywords: | quantum cryptography | free space optics | entanglement | quantum gates | linear quantum gates | optical quantum computing | single photon optics | quantum interference |
| Dr Oliver Ray | |
| Post(s): | Lecturer, Department of Computer Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a member of the Intelligent Systems research group. I am interested in the integration of abductive and inductive inference... |
| Keywords: | integration of abductive inference with application to systems biology | non-monotonic induction of action theories with application to requirements engineering | formalisation and automation of scientific method | exabyte informatics |
| Professor Emily Rayfield | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Palaeobiology, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I research how living and fossil animal skeletons function, examine why skeletons are shaped in a particular way, and track... |
| Keywords: | dinosaurs | fossils | biomechanics |
| Professor Gino Raymond | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Modern French Studies, Department of French |
| Areas of expertise: | I have published widely on politics and society in France. In recent years my research has focused on issues of citizenship,... |
| Keywords: | France | France and Europe | French foreign policy | Franco-British relations | religion and society in France | French politics | contemporary French society | modern French history |
| Dr Niamh Redmond | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
| Areas of expertise: | I have an interest in a variety of human health research topics and my area of expertise is setting up, conducting and managing... |
| Keywords: | healthcare | clinical trials | screening programme | fragility fractures | paracetamol | ibuprofen | low back pain |
| Professor Barnaby Reeves | |
| Post(s): | Professorial Research Fellow in Health Services Research, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | The Unit carries out: (a) studies to evaluate the effects of treatments and risk factors in patients with cardiovascular... |
| Keywords: | cardiovascular disease | risk factors | methodology | observational studies | study designs |
| Professor Jonathan Reid | |
| Post(s): | Professor, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | Research in the Particle Dynamics Group is focussed on understanding the chemical and physical dynamics of single aerosol... |
| Keywords: | single aerosol particles | aerosol particles | optical tweezers | heat and mass transfer | climate change | atmospheric chemistry | combustion aerosol | laser techniques |
| Dr Thomas Rendall | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is now focussed on CFD for moving objects. The goal is to advance current methods to the point where it will... |
| Keywords: | interpolation | aeroelastics | aerodynamics | Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| Professor Hans Reul | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Neuroscience, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My research group investigates how the organism responds and adapts to stressful events. Major research interests are: · The... |
| Keywords: | stressful events | stress | hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis | autonomic nervous system | glucocorticoid | signalling pathways |
| Dr Claire Rice | |
| Post(s): | Consultant Senior Lecturer in Multiple Sclerosis Neurology, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | Stem cells are primitive cells capable of developing into a number of different mature cell types. Increasingly, adult human... |
| Keywords: | stem cells | disease | transplant material | human bone marrow |
| Professor Arthur Richards | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Robotics and Control, Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | My work develops mathematical methods to control the movement of aircraft and spacecraft. The goal is to make them more... |
| Keywords: | robust model predictive control | control of autonomous vehicles | distributed control | trajectory optimization | air traffic management | spacecraft control | unmanned air vehicles |
| Dr Ian Richardson | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Veterinary School |
| Areas of expertise: | Over 20 years working primarily with meat as a food. Expertise in post-mortem events controlling meat quality including... |
| Keywords: | meat science | meat quality | meat composition | packaging | shelf life | waste reduction | sensory analysis |
| Dr Tom Richardson | |
| Post(s): | Warden, Residential and Hospitality Services Senior Lecturer in Flight Mechanics, Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I currently lecture in Flight Mechanics and Control. My principal research interest is Control, ranging from classical flight... |
| Keywords: | flight control | flight mechanics | unmanned air vehicles | UAV |
| Professor Jeremy Rickard | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Mathematics, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | -Modular representation theory of finite groups and related areas. -Homological algebra. -Representation theory of finite-dimensional... |
| Keywords: | representation theory |
| Dr Miguel Rico-Ramirez | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Radar Hydrology and Hydroinformatics, Department of Civil Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | My main research interests are the application of digital signal processing techniques to remote sensing, in particular to... |
| Keywords: | remote sensing | digital signal processing | weather radar systems | vertical radar reflectivity | precipitation events | dual-polarization radar |
| Professor Andy Ridgwell | |
| Post(s): | Professorial Research Fellow, School of Geographical Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | The global carbon cycle and regulation of atmospheric CO2; past, present, and future. Interaction of carbon cycle with climate.... |
| Keywords: | climate change | global warming | ocean acidification | glacial | geoengineering | carbon cycle | CO2 | global biogeochemical cycles |
| Professor Julian Rivers | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Bristol Law School |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests lie mainly in the area of legal and constitutional theory, with a particular interest in the legal... |
| Keywords: | legal & constitutional theory | legal regulation of religions |
| Professor Jonathan Robbins | |
| Post(s): | Head of School, School of Mathematics Professor of Mathematics, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Materials Science: liquid crystals, particularly in confined polyhedral geometries; applications to displays. Partial... |
| Keywords: | materials science | liquid crystals | partial differential equations | quantum chaos | Maslov indices | nonrelativistic quantum mechanics |
| Professor Daniel Robert | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Bionanoscience, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research concentrates on the comparative study of the behavioural biology, biomechanics and evolution of auditory systems.... |
| Keywords: | behavioural biology | biomechanics | evolution | auditory systems | sensory adaptation | hearing | insects |
| Professor Alan Roberts | |
| Post(s): | Senior Research Fellow in Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences Emeritus Professor, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Function of simple nervous systems of invertebrates like worms and lobsters and lower vertebrates like fish, frogs and toads. |
| Keywords: | simple nervous systems | invertebrates |
| Professor Nicholas Roberts | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Sensory Ecology, School of Biological Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I am primarily interested the detection of light and colour in nature. My research is focused on investigating optical mechanisms... |
| Keywords: | animal vision | light and colour in nature | polarized light | photoreceptor biology | stomatopods / mantis shrimps |
| Professor Peter Roberts | |
| Post(s): | Emeritus Professor, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | Neuropharmacologist with 30 years experience of investigating drugs affecting neurotransmission in the brain. Particular... |
| Keywords: | neurodegenerative diseases | drugs and the brain | drugs |
| Miss Veronica Roberts | |
| Post(s): | Senior Clinical Fellow in Equine Medicine, Companion Animal Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | All areas of equine medicine. Research interest in headshaking. |
| Keywords: | equine medicine | headshaking |
| Dr Douglas Robinson | |
| Post(s): | Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My research is in the field of very low-grade metamorphism, and aims to establish if geochemical and mineralogical changes... |
| Keywords: | metamorphism | mineralogical changes | geochemical changes | crustal development | crust | the Earth | rocks |
| Professor Emma Robinson | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Psychopharmacology, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience |
| Areas of expertise: | Neural and neurochemical mediators of behaviour and their role in psychiatric disorders Work in our laboratory uses behavioural... |
| Keywords: | neurochemical mediators | neural mediators | psychiatric disorders | behavioural studies | neuropharmacology | neurochemical systems | behaviour | psychiatric conditions |
| Professor Laura Robinson | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Geochemistry, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | My current research interests are: -Timing of Pleistocene climate change events -Palaeoclimate reconstructions -Impact... |
| Keywords: | pleistocene | paleoclimate reconstructions | biomineralisation | climate | ocean |
| Professor Katharine Robson Brown | |
| Post(s): | Director of the Jean Golding Institute, Research and Enterprise Development Professor of Biological Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology |
| Areas of expertise: | I am currently serving as a Lay representative for the Severn Deanery. This is an NHS appointment. The Deanery delivers medical... |
| Keywords: | human evolution, and functional anatomy at the level of microstructure | osteoarchaeology, and the african diaspora | postcranial morphological variation within modern human populations | biomechanics of the spine | microct technology and its application to archaeology and anthropology | impact of tissue regulation on research | public display of archaeological human remains in the museums, galleries and university sectors |
| Professor Chris Rogers | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests include methods for: (a) monitoring outcomes after surgery, (b) predicting short and long term outcomes... |
| Keywords: | surgery | heart surgery | heart transplantation | Cox regression modelling | lung transplantation | low volume operations |
| Professor Peter Rogers | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Biological Psychology, School of Psychological Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a psychologist with an academic background in biological sciences. Broadly speaking, my current research is concerned... |
| Keywords: | weight control | food choice | nutrition, health and behaviour | psychopharmacology | caffeine | craving and addiction | human classical conditioning | mood and cognitive performance |
| Dr Paco Romero Salvado | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Modern Spanish History, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
| Areas of expertise: | My main focus of research is the analysis of the social and political origins of the Spanish Civil War. I have written extensively... |
| Keywords: | Spanish Civil War | modern Spanish history | modern Spanish politics | Left-wing social and political mobilization | state identity |
| Dr Nicola Rooney | |
| Post(s): | Senior Teaching Fellow & Programme Director of Global Wildlife Health, Bristol Veterinary School Teaching Fellow, Farm Animal Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I am interested in applied aspects of the interactions between humans and animals including the follow areas: • Development... |
| Keywords: | animals | interactions between humans and animals | animal welfare | dogs | domestic animals | play behaviour | working dogs | breeds of domestic dog |
| Professor Judy Rorison | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Optoelectronics, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a member of the Photonics Group within the Centre for Communications Research. My Research focusses on semiconductor... |
| Keywords: | semicondutor materials and devices | edge-emitting and vcsels | highly-mismatched alloys and quantum dot materials | electronic transport | optoelectronics |
| Dr Jo Rose | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education |
| Areas of expertise: | Research Interests Collaborative decision making; inter-professional working; partnerships Biography I come from... |
| Keywords: | collaborative decision making | inter-professional working | partnerships | cooperative decision making | inter-professional collaboration | school effectiveness | teacher effectiveness | teacher professional development. |
| Professor Jonathan Rossiter | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Robotics, Department of Engineering Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | My research interests include bio-mimetics, artificial intelligence, robotics and sensors. Bio-mimetics is an engineering... |
| Keywords: | robotics | artificial muscles | electroactive polymers | bio-mimetics | artificial intelligence | medical Imaging | MRI |
| Professor Jonathan Rougier | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Statistical Science, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | Model-based inference for complex systems: combining observational data, evaluations of models, and expert judgements. How... |
| Keywords: | computer experiment | complex systems | uncertainty | climate | natural hazards |
| Dr Angela Rowe | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Social Cognitive Psychology, School of Psychological Science |
| Areas of expertise: | I study the way that prior close relationship experiences (represented in attachment relational schemas) become activated... |
| Keywords: | adult attachment | love | personal relationships |
| Professor CP Royall | |
| Post(s): | Professor of Chemical Physics, School of Physics Professor of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | I am a Royal Society University Research Fellow independent researcher. I tackle key outstanding questions in condensed matter... |
| Keywords: | soft matter and statistical mechanics | colloid and interface science |
| Dr Misha Rudnev | |
| Post(s): | Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics |
| Areas of expertise: | My research profile embraces problems that lie at the intersection of harmonic analysis, geometric and additive combinatorics,... |
| Keywords: | number theory | geometric incidence theory | Hamiltonian dynamics | integrability | harmonic analysis | geometrics |
| Dr Chris Russell | |
| Post(s): | Reader, School of Chemistry |
| Areas of expertise: | The aim of our work is to investigate making new molecules and probing novel synthetic methods. Our target molecules are... |
| Keywords: | new molecules | novel synthetic methods | synthetic methods | molecules | ligand design | catalysis |
| Dr Alison Rust | |
| Post(s): | Reader in Physical Volcanology, School of Earth Sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | I study the dynamics of volcanic processes using a combination of laboratory experiments, theoretical fluid mechanics, fieldwork... |
| Keywords: | volcanic processes | petrology | theoretical fluid mechanics | crystals | volcanic problems | magma convection | volcanoes |
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