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Dr Lena Ciric
Chadwick 117
UCL Civil Environmental & Geomatic Engineering
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
Appointment
- Senior Lecturer
- Dept of Civil, Environ &Geomatic Eng
- Faculty of Engineering Science
Biography
Lena completed her first degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford in 2000. She then went on to work as a research assistant at the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) in Oxford, where she also completed a CASE PhD Studentship hosted at Napier University Edinburgh investigating the bacterial community dynamics in diesel degrading consortia in 2006. Lena moved to the UCL Eastman Dental Institute in 2007 and worked on two EU funded postdoctoral projects. Lena took up a permanent post at UCL CEGE in October 2012 and runs the Healthy Infrastructure Research Group there.
Research Groups
- Centre for Resource Efficiency & the Environment (CREE)
- Centre for Transport Studies (CTS)
- Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience (USAR)
- CircEL (Circular Economy Laboratory)
- Healthy Infrastructure Research Group (HIRG)
- Institute of Healthcare Engineering
- Microbial Diseases
- UCL Urban Laboratory
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Research Summary
Lena's research expertise lies in the application of molecular biology techniques to the profiling of microbial communities found in various built environments, from the communities present in the air in theatres to those residing on high touch surfaces in hospitals. She also studies bacterial antibiotic resistance mechanisms and their modes of transfer among different communities. Lena leads the Healthy Infrastructure Research Group at UCL CEGE. The group investigates how microbial communities interact with the built environment and engineering solutions that reduce the spread of pathogens and improve environmental health. She has received over £3M in research funding from UKRI, Wellcome, the British Council and the Healthcare Infection Society.
Teaching Summary
Dr. Ciric is the the coordinator of the Environmental Systems module (CEGE0015) and contributes to the delivery of the Engineering Impact Assessment module (CEGE0099). She supervises yearly MSc group projects as part of the Collaborative Environmental Systems Project module (CEGE0029). She has also successfully supervised over 40 MSc and over ten final-year UG research projects. She has successfully graduated eight PhD students and is currently supervising six doctoral students. She is involved in the People and Nature Lab at UCL East and has contributed to the design of a number of new modules the lab will be delivering.
Appointments
| 02-JUL-2007 – 26-OCT-2012 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Microbial Diseases | UCL Eastman Dental Institute, United Kingdom |
| 04-JAN-2006 – 30-APR-2006 | Higher Scientific Officer | Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Oxford, United Kingdom | |
| 01-OCT-2000 – 30-SEP-2002 | Research Assistant | Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Oxford, United Kingdom |
Academic Background
| 2007 | Doctor of Philosophy | Napier University , Edinburgh | |
| 2000 | Bachelor of Arts | University of Oxford |
