Dr Arwyn EdwardsPrincipal Investigator
Aberystwyth University
Arwyn Edwards is Reader in Biosciences in the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences and Director of the Aberystwyth University interdisciplinary Centre for Environmental Microbiology. His research interests focus on the interactions between microbes in the environment and global challenges, and he has applied novel methods for genomics-based analyses of microbial communities across the world. He is currently an advisor to the Welsh Government on environmental science aspects of COVID-19. He has published over 60 papers since his 2009 PhD and currently leads two UKRI funded projects. Arwyn is leading the microbial source tracking component of ACCLIMATIZE.
This project has been part funded by the ERDF though the Ireland Wales Programme 2014 -2020.
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