Research Interests:

My research is driven by understanding how inorganic carbon and carbon dioxide are cycled on the surface of our planet. I use geochemical techniques and tools to measure directly (and by proxy) how carbon moves between the atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere, and the specific chemical reactions which sequester, or release, inorganic carbon between these reservoirs.My research is highly interdisciplinary moving between the fields of environmental chemistry, geology, expedition fieldwork and modern CO2 removal strategies.

• Geochemistry and low temperature weathering
• River sampling from small High Arctic streams to Asian mega rivers
  
• Mass Spectrometry and geochemical method development
  

Career:

2024 to Present:
Researcher, Section 3.3 Earth Surface Geochemistry
GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung

2017 to 2024:         
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences
University of Cambridge UK

2015 to 2017:        
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Research Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences
University of Cambridge UK       

2013 to 2015:         
Turner Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth and Envirnmental Sciences
University of Michigan USA

Education:

DPhil Earth Science, University of Oxford
MChem Chemsitry with Hons Environmental Chemistry, University of Edinburghdinburgh

Awards:

2025: Keynote speaker: Chemical Weathering, Climate Change and the Global Carbon Cycle conference, The Geological Society

2023: Uppsala–Durham Strategic Development Fund €19,993 (Co-PI)

2021: Awarded the Early Career Researcher Prominent Lecture Program by the Geochemistry Group of the Mineralogical Society and of the Geological Society

2020: INTERACT TA Grant: CarbFlux3: Fieldwork grant €10,000

2019: Mount Everest Foundation: Fieldwork award, £3250, British Soil Science Society: Field equipment award, £974.89

2018: Royal Geographical Society Gilchrist Fieldwork Award, CarbFlux2: Fieldwork grant £15,000 (Co-PI with Dr Mel Murphy),  INTERACT TA Grant: CarbFlux2: Fieldwork grant €14,420 (Co-PI with Dr Mel Murphy),  INTERACT TA Ambassador

2017: INTERACT TA Grant: CarbFlux: Fieldwork grant €12,360, College Research Associate, Magdalene College Cambridge, Sêr Cymru II Fellowship £174,000, Cardiff University (not claimed)

2015: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Independent Research Fellowship €184,000,  DISCCRS: ‘New Generation of Polar Researchers’: National Science Foundation.

2014: ‘Young Polar Scientist’ Awarded by the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists and Canada Goose

2012: Turner Postdoctoral Fellowship $120,000, University of Michigan

2008: Undergraduate prizes: Gillie’s Prize (Most distinguished performance in Masters study), Hope Prize Scholarship (Awarded to top student in Chemistry), EaStChem PhD Scholarship (Awarded to best graduating student) Class medal (finishing top of Master’s in Chemistry class), Ames prize (Outstanding academic performance).