Background

Professional and academic qualifications:

2012 – Certificate in Management and Leadership (Chartered Management Institute)

2012 – Project management, PRINCE 2 (Projects in controlled environments) Practitioner (APM-Group)

2005 – 2010 – Methanogenic and methanotrophic processes in temperate and high latitude environments (PhD, Newcastle University)

2004 -2005 – Environmental Biogeochemistry (MSc, Newcastle University)

1997-2001 –Biological Sciences: Developmental Biology (BSc, Edinburgh University) 

Reviewer:

International Science Council (2016 - present)

British Council Newton Fund (2018 - present)

Memberships:

Microbiology society

BBSRC AD network

Awards:

2016 - Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development award from the United Nations University for my community engagement work leading Cinema Politica Newcastle (http://www.cinemapolitica.org/newcastle) an organisation which provides a platform for under represented social and environmental issues, providing a safe space for discussion and debate. 

Previous projects:

'Sustainability options for Multi-storey communities', Funded by Northern Power Grid, Northern Gas Networks, and Impact Acceleration Account funding (2015-2016) Co-Investigator

Nature and Nurture: Linking causative agents in the environments with increased incidence of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC),  Institute for Sustainability funded (2014 -2015) Co-Investigator

'Determining biogenic and non-biogenic mass components in MSW streams by thermal decomposition' TSB funded, and Institute for Sustainability funded (2012) Industrial lead.

'Optimising biogas production through anaerobic digestion'  TSB funded (2009 -2012) Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate

 'Methanogenic and methanotrophic processes in temperate and high latitude environments'  EPSRC funded (2005 -2010) Post Graduate Researcher

Research

Previous projects:

'Sustainability options for Multi-storey communities', Funded by Northern Power Grid, Northern Gas Networks, and Impact Acceleration Account funding (2015-2016) Co-Investigator

Nature and Nurture: Linking causative agents in the environments with increased incidence of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC),  Institute for Sustainability funded (2014 -2015) Co-Investigator

'Determining biogenic and non-biogenic mass components in MSW streams by thermal decomposition' TSB funded, and Institute for Sustainability funded (2012) Industrial lead.

'Optimising biogas production through anaerobic digestion'  TSB funded (2009 -2012) Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate

 'Methanogenic and methanotrophic processes in temperate and high latitude environments'  EPSRC funded (2005 -2010) Post Graduate Researcher

Teaching

Undergraduate

Research methods for Environmental Pollution (CEG2609) - Principle lecturer (2016 -2017)

Geographies of Sustainability (GEO3134) -  Guest lecturer (Municipal Solid Waste) (2015 -2016)

Postgraduate

Research Methods (CEG8601) - Guest lecturer  (Science and Society; disciplinary to interdisciplinary research) (2014 -2016)

Publications

• Johnson KL, Banwart SA, Peacock CL, Blake LI. Heat and Soil vie for waste to cut emissions. Nature 2018, 563, 626.
• Probert PM, Leitch AC, Dunn MP, Meyer SK, Palmer JM, Abdelghany TM, Lakey AF, Cooke MP, Talbot H, Wills C, McFarlane W, Blake LI, Rosenmai AK, Oskarsson A, Figueiredo R, Wilson C, Kass GE, Jones DE, Blain PG, Wright MC. Identification of a xenobiotic as a potential environmental trigger in primary biliary cholangitis. Journal of Hepatology 2018, 69(5), 1123-1135.
• Bell E, Blake LI, Sherry A, Head IM, Hubert C. Distribution of thermophilic endospores in a temperate estuary indicate that dispersal history structures sediment microbial communities. Environmental Microbiology 2018, 20(3), 1134-1147.
• Blake LI, Halim FA, Gray C, Mair R, Manning DA, Sallis P, Hutchinson H, Gray ND. Evaluating an anaerobic digestion (AD) feedstock derived from a novel non-source segregated municipal solid waste (MSW) product. Waste Management 2017, 59, 149-159.
• Meyer SK, Probert PME, Lakey AK, Leitch A, Blake LI, Jowsey PA, Cooke MP, Blain PG, Wright MC. Environmental xenoestrogens super-activate a variant murine ER beta in cholangiocytes. Toxicological Sciences 2017, 156(1), 54-71.
• Powells G, Blake L. Urban Science Networks and Local Economy: The Case of Newcastle Upon Tyne. In: Evans, J; Karvonen, A; Raven, R, ed. The Experimental City. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016, pp.137-149.
• Rezaei M, Blake L. ERR. Gateshead: Mariam Rezaei, 2016.
• Blake LI, Tveit A, Øvreås L, Head IM, Gray ND. Response of methanogens in Arctic sediments to temperature and methanogenic substrate availability. PLoS One 2015, 10(6), e0129733.
• Broudic M, Voellmy I, Dobbins D, Robinson S, Berggren P, Laing S, Blake L, Radford A, Lepper P, Pace F, Neves S, Simpson S, Bruintjes R. Underwater noise emission from the NOAH's drilling operation at the NaREC site, Blyth, UK. In: 2nd International Conference on Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewable Energy Technologies. 2014, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
• Blake L, Sallis P, Gray N. Industrial report: Characterisation and anaerobic digestion (AD) potential of a novel product derived from Municipal Solid Waste. 2010.