Independent Research Fellow: P3 & Energy 2050, University of Sheffield (present) Senior Research Fellow & Co-investigator: Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Nottingham (2014) Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow: APS University of Sheffield (2008) Research Associate: APS University of Sheffield (2004) PhD: APS University of Sheffield (2002) BSc (1st Class Hons) Plant Science: University of Liverpool (1996)

My research is primarily focused on plant physiological responses to atmospheric carbon dioxide: impacts on plant processes (productivity, anatomy and biochemistry, disease, soil processes). More recently I have engaged in applied research on climate change mitigation: Carbon Capture Storage and Transport (CCS) effects on vegetation and the soil environment as well as research into low carbon solutions for industry: biomass substitute for fossil fuels in the steel industry. I work closely with industry to effect best practice as we move towards mitigating effects of climate change.

Lomax, B.H., Hilton, J., Bateman, R.M., Upchurch, G.R., Lake, J.A., Leitch, I.J., Cromwell, A., Knight, C.A. (2014) Reconstructing relative genome size of vascular plants through geological time. New Phytologist : doi: 10.1111/nph.12523

Lake, J.A., Smith, K., Steven, M., Lomax, B.H. (2013) COOLTRANS: The environmental impact of a hypothetical leakage of CO2 into the soil environment. Proceedings of the 4th International Forum on the Transportation of CO2 by Pipeline. June 2013, Gateshead, UK.

Lake, J.A., Smith, K., Steven, M., Lomax, B.H. (2012) COOLTRANS: The environmental impact of hypothetical leakage of CO2 onto the ground surface. Journal of Pipeline Engineering 11(3): 239-248

Lomax, B.H., Knight, C., Lake, J.A. (2012) An experimental evaluation of the use of δ13C plant tissue as a proxy for the paleoatmospheric δ13CO2 signature of air. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 13(1): (doi:10.1029/2012GC004174)

Hubbart, S., Bird, S., Lake, J.A., Murchie, E.H. (2012) Does growth under elevated CO2 moderate photoacclimation in rice? Physiologia Plantarum (doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2012.01702.x)

Field, K.J., Lake, J.A. (2011) Environmental metabolomics links genotype to phenotype and predicts genotype abundance in wild plant populations. Physiologia Plantarum 142: 352-360 (doi:10.1111/j.1399-3054.2011.01480.x)