MY CV

POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS HELD

ITER / INVOLCAN

Jan 2018 -

Post-Doctoral Researcher

• Developing in-situ non-destructive X-ray imaging techniques for application to geoscience

• Led the design, budget allocation and setup of a new Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometer and accompanying clean lab, MicroMill, and supporting rock preparation equipment.

• Working to translate high-order patterns in petrological information into real-time volcano monitoring.

• Investigating the role of mineralogy in the Earth’s atmosphere and hydrosphere through time.

• Using 3D and 4D X-ray micro-computed tomography to test paradigms of igneous petrogenesis

DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE / UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

Post-doctoral Researcher

• 4D X-ray experiments at magmatic temperatures. (NERC funded: PIs Burton, Lee; Manchester/UCL)

• Used brilliant-source X-rays to image crystalisation, vesiculation in-situ

• Image processing

Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

AXA RESEARCH FUND / UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

Jan 2015 - Jan 2017

Fellowship

• Obtaining eruption-specific petrology in near-real-time.

• Adapting qualitative miroCT into a quantitative and reproducible analytical toolkit.

• Developing machine learning techniques to efficiently extract petrographic information and petrological meaning.

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

Jan 2013 - Jan 2014

Post-doctoral Research assistant

• Eyjafjallajökull 2010: chronology of magmatic processes and their linkage to unrest signals and eruption behaviour (NERC funded: PI Morgan, Leeds).

• Generated the most integrated and largest crystal disequilibrium database currently published.

• Worked with colleagues at British Geological Survey, University of Iceland and University of Edinburgh