I will be at AGU for the whole week. On Monday afternoon I will presenting work we have been doing combining new Fe-XANES observations and thermodynamic models of mantle […]

Geologist
The mantle is an important, yet poorly understood, part of Earth’s carbon cycle, which interacts with Earth’s surface through volcanism and subduction. The CO2 flux in to and out of […]
Basalts are our window into Earth’s chemical structure, and being a product of mantle melting and transport, constrain the processes by which it continues to differentiate. However, to interpret the […]
There is abundant evidence for extreme chemical heterogeneity in the Earth’s mantle, resulting from billions of years of differentiation during magma production, and the subsequent recycling of these crustal rocks […]
The basalts sampled at mid-ocean ridges and ocean islands provide critical insight into the chemical evolution of the Earth: with their isotope ratio and trace element abundances capturing processes as […]
Our understanding of the mantle, long thought to be largely homogeneous in its major element composition, has undergone significant revision in the last decade as increasing evidence points towards it containing lithological […]
I am a University Lecturer at the University Cambridge, working jointly between the Institute of Astronomy and Department of Earth Sciences to understand the evolution and habitability of terrestrial planets in the solar system and around other stars.
I have recently returned to Cambridge from The Devision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech where I was the Geology Option Postdoctoral Research Fellow. I study the chemical and dynamic processes occurring in the planetary interiors and crusts through a combination of fieldwork, geochemical analysis and modelling.
I have spent much of my academic life at The University of Cambridge, first as an undergraduate on the Natural Sciences Tripos, then as a PhD student in the Department of Earth Sciences and then as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College. In addition to Caltech, during my postdoc I have also travelled to Japan as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow, working with colleagues in the Institute for the Study of the Earth's Interior.
Descriptions of my research can be found on this site, along with with links to journal papers and conference abstracts. My Google scholar profile contains article metrics.
I will be at AGU for the whole week. On Monday afternoon I will presenting work we have been doing combining new Fe-XANES observations and thermodynamic models of mantle […]