Professor of Environmental Data Science and Head of Centre, Cranfield Environment Centre at Cranfield University. The Environment Centre is focussed on the development of sensor technology and their application, modelling, informatics, data and decision sciences. The Centre covers research on air quality and climate change, soil quality, crop growth and monitoring, natural capital, resilience, ecosystem goods and services and on urban systems. The Centre has a long track record in research on the resilience and viability of built infrastructure to natural hazards (flooding, landslides, subsidence) and how this is changing and projected to change as a consequence of climate change. 

Professor Ron Corstanje’s research programme broadly covers the development and application of modelling, informatics and statistical methods to current problems in agriculture and in the environmental sciences, ranging from fundamental methodological developments to their application in these fields. He has applied this to understanding the importance of green space infrastructure on urban systems, both in Europe and South East Asia, understanding how rapid urban expansion impacts and affects the spatial configuration of greenspace and its benefits to the urban population. Conversely he currently leads a research programme that is looking into the nature, type and value of greenspace interventions in Urban Systems and their benefits to air quality but also ecosystem services and considering social benefits.