Judith Thornton

Judith is a Low Carbon Manager in the Institue of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS). Her main interest is in future plant based economies, and how we might make better use of plants in the future. She sits on the Welsh Government Agriculture Industry Climate Change Forum, and is an expert advisor on the Labour/Plaid Cymru Net Zero 2035 challenge group.

Judith has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Leeds (water footprinting and water efficiency), and Cardiff University (low carbon futures, water history). She has also had teaching positions at the University of Padua (Potable Water System Engineering) and was an MSc tutor at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT, Machynlleth). Judith spent a number of years working on small scale water and sewage systems and wrote national water efficiency standards for the AECB and a book on private water supplies, as well as desigining/installing water and sewage treatment systems and undertaking consultancy work including for Energy Savings Trust, Environment Agency, and the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Her personal blog is at https://lowcarbonbuildings.wordpress.com/.