Professor Andy Cundy BSc, PhD, FGS, FRGS
Professor of Environmental Radioactivity
My main research interests lie in the areas of applied and environmental geochemistry and environmental radioactivity, and cover a range of areas including sediment geochemistry, contaminated land and water management, and environmental applications of nanotechnologies. The key questions that drive my research are:
What are the controls on radionuclide, heavy metal and organic contaminant dispersion and accumulation in the surface and near-surface environment?
How can we use radio- and geo-chemical studies of the recent sedimentary record to assess topics such as earthquake and tsunami hazard, coastal and shelf-sea processes, sea-level change and its sedimentary impacts, and environmental pollution and degradation?
How can we use naturally-occurring geo- and radio-chemical reactions to develop cost-effective and novel ways of dealing with our legacy of environmental pollution (including nuclear industry and military legacy pollution), and with currently emerging contaminants?
Academic history
Professor of Environmental Radioactivity, University of Southampton, 2016 – present.
Professor of Geosciences (Applied Geochemistry), University of Brighton, 2006 – 2016, Head of School (interim), 2015-2016.
Senior Lecturer, then Reader, in Environmental Science (Geochemistry), University of Sussex, 2004 – 2006.
Lecturer in Environmental Science (Geochemistry), University of Sussex, 2000 – 2004.
Senior Research Fellow, Southampton Oceanography Centre, 1999 - 2000.
Lecturer in Physical Geography and Earth Sciences, Brunel University, 1995 – 1999.
Research Fellow, Brunel University College. Project: Tectonics and Late Quaternary sea level change in Eastern Sicily, 1994 – 1995.