Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the fields of
- Agricultural biotechnology (biological control)
- Astrobiology (including limits for life)
- Pathogen biology (including human microbiome)
- Tropical forest systems (including tree physiology, trophic interactions, microbial saprotrophs)
Public outreach & key achievements
JEH has been a member of expert panels for European Space Agency, COSPAR and NASA in recent years; has Guest Edited a number of journal special issues; been on the Organising Committees and an Invited Speaker of international conferences on in the fields of fungal stress, halophiles, environmental sustainability, geomicrobiology, and astrobiology; works with the European Research Agency as reviewer and evaluator; and has lived and worked in England, Scotland, India, Japan and South Africa. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles.
Research students
Some of his research students are highly published, with 8-13 papers from their PhD work: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=DHYqxyMAAAAJ&hl=en
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=1MakwN4AAAAJ&hl=en