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 using 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 the University of 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 the West Troms Basement Complex, in northern Norway.

I have a collection of thin-section photomicrographs, including those from my undergraduate project on the Barrovian zones in the Grampian Highlands of Scotland.