Before I moved into the nuclear industry I was an academic researching the formation of the Solar System 4.6-billion years ago via mass spectrometry.

I was awarded a PhD in
isotope cosmochemistry
from the University of Bristol in 2019
where I researched meteorites.

I was also affiliated with the Natural History Museum (London) and the British Geological Survey (Nottingham).

Prior to that, I was awarded a
First Class Master’s
in Geology with Planetary Science from the University of Manchester (2015).

I also completed a summer internship at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (2014).

My academic years focused on using natural radioactive clocks in meteorites to measure how old they are.

I was awarded the Gordon A. MacKay Award by the Meteoritical Society for my talk in July 2018 at the 81st Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society.

Selected awards

• Geological Society President's Award. [March 2020]. For ‘showing significant early promise and being judged to have potential to be future leaders in their fields’.

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and University of Nottingham NanoPrime grant. [July 2019] £1950 worth of instrument time (TOF-SIMS) to study the microstructure of chondrules at the University of Nottingham’s Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre.

• Minerals Travel Award. [April 2019]. £615 of travel costs towards my attendance at the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston (Texas, USA).

• Europlanet Grant. [Feb 2019]. One week of ion microprobe time at CNRS (Nancy, France) to measure the in-situ oxygen isotope composition of refractory olivine grains in unequilibrated chondrites.

• Gordon A. McKay Award. [Sep 2018]. Best student talk at the 81st Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society.

• Postgraduate Demonstrator of the Year Award. [May 2018]. Voted demonstrator of the year by first year undergraduates.

• Bristol Alumni Foundation Grant. [Nov 2017]. £1900. To purchase a meteorite collection for public outreach activities.

• Service to the School of Earth Science. [July 2015]. University of Manchester, School of Earth Sciences.

• Highest Scoring MEarthSci Student. [July 2015]. University of Manchester, School of Earth Sciences.

• Best MEarthSci Project. [July 2015]. University of Manchester, School of Earth Sciences.

• Undergraduate of the Year Award. [April 2015]. University of Manchester, School of Earth Sciences.