Dr Tristan Rees-White 

Research Fellow

Dr Tristan Rees-White is Research Fellow within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.

Tristan Rees-White completed his PhD in landfill leachate management systems in 2007. Prior to this, after finishing a Masters degree in Geology at the University of Wales Cardiff, he was employed as a geologist/engineer for Cleanaway Ltd (now Veolia Environmental Services Ltd), overseeing the construction and maintenance of leachate management systems in south east England.

He has worked within the EPSRC-funded ‘Science and Strategies for the long-term management and remediation of landfills’ project as a full time researcher, designing and carrying out numerous large-scale experiments in both the laboratory and field. The focus of the research has been on the effectiveness of contaminant removal through flushing, by carrying out full-scale tracer test experiments at a number of field site across the UK and in Europe.

Other research areas have included those into the aerobic treatment of wastes, and landfill gas monitoring and augmentation.

He is a member of the University of Southampton’s Waste Management Research Group and a Fellow of the Geological Society.