Experience

• Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit)

  2024-present: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Germany

  – Teaching activities: Igneous Petrology, Volcanology, Microscopy, Geomaterials

• FNRS Research Fellow (Chargé de recherches)

  2020-2024: Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  – Based in the G-Time Laboratory (Geochemistry/Geophysics: Tephra, Isotopes, Minerals, Elements)

  – Principal Investigator: Assessing the role of magma volatiles on explosive silicic peralkaline eruptions along the East African Rift (VOLATEAR)

  

• Lecturer in Geology

  2019-2020: University of Liverpool, UK

  – Module manager of volcanology, tectonics and geohazard courses

• Research Excellence Framework (REF) Impact Case Researcher

  2019: University of Liverpool & INSIVUMEH (Guatemala)

  – Consolidating impact partnerships: resilience strategies for volcanic hazards

• Research Assistant

  2018-2019: University of Liverpool, UK

  – Based in the experimental volcanology and geothermal laboratory

  – Geochemical and geophysical investigation of explosions at Santiaguito, Guatemala

• Visiting Researcher

  2017: University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) – Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO)

  – Based in the Experimental Petrology Laboratory performing high temperature-high pressure disequilibrium experiments

• Teaching Assistant/Demonstrator

  2015-2018: University of Liverpool, UK

  – Roles: Teaching in class, practical demonstrations, fieldwork and student supervision

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Volcanology

  2015-2019: University of Liverpool, UK

  – Dissertation: “Dynamic petrology and rheology of ascending magma during lava dome eruptions: effusive–explosive activity”

  – Based in the Experimental Volcanology and Geothermal Laboratory

  – Supervisors: Prof. Y. Lavallée, Dr. J.E. Kendrick & Dr. S.H. De Angelis

  – Defense committee: Prof. B. Kennedy (volcanologist at University of Canterbury, NZ) & Prof. R. Worden (geochemist at University of Liverpool, UK)

• Master of Geology (Honours)

  2011-2015: University of Plymouth, UK

  – First class (Hons)

  – Master’s thesis: “Vulcanian explosions at the type locality at Vulcano, Sicily”

  – BSc thesis: “A geological analysis of the Isle of Kerrera, NW Scotland”

  – Supervisors: Dr. P.D. Cole, Dr. A. Dijkstra & Dr. G.K. Taylor

• A-Level Awards

  2009-2011: Southam College, Warwickshire, UK

  – Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Sociology

Teaching & Supervision

Master’s Modules
Geohazards and Risk Mitigation (module leader)
Research Methods
Advanced Geology Research Project
Workshop on “melt viscometry and magma rheology”
Bachelor’s Modules
Volcanology and Geohazards (module leader)
Earth Structure and Plate Tectonics (module leader)
Field Mapping Techniques (Almeria, SE Spain)
Igneous petrology and rock textures
Crust and Mantle Evolution
Minerals, Magmas and Volcanoes
Geology for Civil Engineers
Introduction to Geoscience
Student Supervision
MSc project: “Magma mixing in the Inyo volcanic chain, USA”
4 x Geological mapping students (BSc Dissertation)
10 x BSc Geology student tutees
Training users on analytical and experimental equipment

Workshops Attended

Modelling volatile behaviour in magmas, IAVCEI, Rotorua, New Zealand, 2023
Thermodynamic Modeling of Volcanic Systems using MELTS, IAVCEI, Rotorua, New Zealand, 2023
Melts, Glasses, Magmas (MGM), LMU-Munich, Germany, 2017
Melts, Glasses, Magmas (MGM), LMU-Munich, Germany, 2015
Laser Ablation (LA-ICP-MS) mapping workshop, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2015
NERC ATSC advanced fundamentals of EPMA, University of Bristol, UK, 2017
NERC advanced EPMA training, University of Oxford, UK, 2018
Communicating volcano science using narratives and storytelling, VMSG, Plymouth, UK, 2019
Science communication, IAVCEI, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2017
Chemical changes in rocks: Driving forces & mechanisms, University of Liverpool, UK, 2018

Conferences Attended

(>50 oral/poster presentations)

IAVCEI, Rotorua, New Zealand (2023)
American Geophysical Union (AGU), New Orleans, USA (2021)
Volcanic & Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG), Virtual, UK (2021)
Volcanic & Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG), Plymouth, UK (2020)
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Montreal, Canada (2019)
Cities on Volcanoes (CoV) 10, Napoli, Italy (2018)
Joint Tectonic & Metamorphic Studies Group (TSG & MSG), Plymouth, UK (2018)
American Geophysical Union (AGU), New Orleans, USA (2017)
IAVCEI, Portland, Oregon, USA (2017)
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (2017)
Joint Assembly, VMSG-TSG-MSG, Liverpool, UK (2017)
Session convenor: Magma genesis, storage and transport
European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria (2016)
Volcanic & Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG), Dublin, Ireland (2016)

Funding & Academic Awards

Financial awards
2022 – FNRS 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship
2019 – UoL Earth Science Research Grant
– IUGG travel grant
2018 – Liverpool Doctoral College scholarship
– EGU travel grant
2017 – VMSG travel grant
2016 – EGU travel grant

Research acknowledgments
2020 – Awarded PhD with no corrections
2019 – Editor’s Choice for Wallace et al. Journal of Petrology
2018 – Tectonic Studies Group presentation honours
2016 – VMSG presentation honours
2015 – University Bookseller Prize: Best degree performance
– Placed on the Dean’s list of academic excellence (Plymouth)