Professor Martin Tillotson

Profile

I spent the first 16 years of my career working in research and innovation in the UK water sector. In 2011 I moved into academia to take up the position of Director of water@leeds, a large interdisciplinary water research and training centre at the University of Leeds. In 2014 I was appointed Chair in Water Management and was also elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. I have also held Visiting Professor positions in the School of Geography, University of Leeds and School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University. As well as research and teaching interests I have held a number of external advisory/peer review positions, including:

• EPSRC Peer Review College, and membership of the Process Engineering & Sustainability Strategic Advisoty Teams (SATs, 2005-2014)
• Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) Panel Member, UoA14 Civil & Construction Engineering (2011-2014)
• External Examiner, Water Science Institute, Cranfield University (2011-2014)
• Teachnology Advisory Group member for a water technology start-up (2017-2019)
• Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) Institutional Level Environment Pilot Panel (ILEPP) Panel Member (2018-2022).

I have also held a number of internal advisory/peer review and leadership positions:

• Deputy Director of Research & Innovation, School of Civil Engineering (2015-2022)
• Member of University Impact Group (2018-2022)
• Member of Impact & Knowledge Exchange Group, School of Earth & Environment (2022-ongoing).

Responsibilities

• Director of water@leeds
• Co-Director WaterWISER CDT

Research interests

I am interested in water research and innovation, mainly in the areas of water and wastewater treatment, sludge processing and water resource management. I currently supervise PhD research students with interests in water resource management in the sub-tropics, retrofit SuDS, mitigation of invasive species in raw water transfer, advanced oxidation processes for wastewater treatment and 2D filtration of industrial (textile) wastewaters. I am happy to discuss PhD/MPhil/MSc research supervision with prospective students.

• Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery from Waste (C-VORR)

Qualifications

• PhD Inorganic Chemistry, University of Liverpool (1997)
• MSc Surface Science & Catalysis, University of Liverpool (1992)
• BSc (Hons) Chemistry, University of Liverpool (1991)

Professional memberships

• Chartered Chemist & Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (CChem FRSC)

Student education

I am an Academic Personal Tutor in the School of Civil Engineering. I also supervise BEng/MEng and MSc project students in the Schools of Civil Engineering and Earth & Environment.

Research groups and institutes

• Water, Public Health and Environmental Engineering
• Cities, Infrastructure and Energy

Current postgraduate researchers

• James Exley
• Hafizul Aimme
• Qian Ye