My Ph.D. project is on the mechanisms of amphibole deformation (working in the DUSC Lab at the University of Southern California). I am exploring how amphibole deforms in both naturally and experimentally deformed samples.

My Master's project was on the microphysical mechanisms underpinning transient creep of olivine (in the Microgeodynamics Group at Cambridge). I explored the effect of environmental factors, such as oxygen fugacity, on the rate of transient creep and modelled transient creep in a range of geodynamic settings.

My Ph.D. field areas are in northern Norway, primarily on Ringvassøya. I have also been on a few field trips elsewhere in Europe.

I accumulated a lot of thin-section photomicrographs during my undergraduate degree, including those from my undergraduate project on the Scottish Barrovian zones.