CV

Royal Society University Research Fellow, 
University of Bristol, 2013-

•  Research Lecturer in Climate System Science, Cardiff University and Climate Change Consortium of Wales (Jan 2011 – Sept 2013)
   
• Postdoctoral Investigator Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (April 2011 – December 2011
  
  
• Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher Columbia University (April 2011 – September 2011)
   
• Doherty Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Oct 2009 – March 2011)
   
• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Oxford (July 2008 – Sept 2009)
  
  
  DPhil Earth Sciences (2004-2008), Hertford College, University of Oxford. The behaviour of trace elements in sea-ice brine and microalgae: reconstructing the Antarctic sea-ice environment.
  Supervisor: Dr R. Rickaby. Examiners: Prof G. Henderson, Prof T. Jickell.
  
  
  MA MSci Natural Sciences (2000-2004), Queens’ College, Cambridge University (1st class honours)
  
  Postgraduate Certificate in Undergraduate Teaching and Learning, Cardiff University (distinctive pass; fellowship of the High Education Academy) 
  
  
  Grants and academic awards: 
   
• Royal Society Research Grant (2014) "From Micro to Macro: The fractionation of silicon isotopes during biogenic opal formation"
• University Research Fellowship, Royal Society (awarded May 2013)
• United States Antarctic Program Antarctic Service Medal (2013)
• Challenger Fellowship for Marine Geology (2012)
• Principal Investigator on a Leverhulme Research Project grant (2012) “Southern Ocean Sponges: The link between biogeography and geochemistry”
• NERC Steering Committee grant (2012)
• Principal Investigator on NERC New Investigator grant (2011) “Unravelling the carbon cycle using silicon isotopes in the oceans”
• Researcher Co-Investigator on National Science Foundation (NSF) Marine Geology and Geophysics grant (2010)
• Principal Investigator on Antarctic Science Bursaries (2008, 2010)
• Oxford University Merit Review Award (2008-2009)
• Challenger Meeting Speaker Award (Sept 2009, highly commended Sept 2010)
• Harkness Prize (2004); Venn Prize (2003); Wiltshire Prize, University of Cambridge (2002)
• Joshua King Prize, Queens’ College, Cambridge (2004)
• Palaeontology Association prizes (2002, 2004)
• Prizes in Natural Sciences, Queen’ College, Cambridge, parts IA, IB, II and III (2001-2004)
• Principal Investigator on a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (2012) “Barium cycling in Antarctic waters: Understanding present and past ocean processes”

Relevant work experience:

• Research cruise on RSS James Cook (Oct-Nov 2013)
• Research cruises with US Antarctic Program on the R/V Nathaniel B Palmer (2008, 2011)
• Participant for three field seasons with the British Antarctic Survey on the West Antarctic Peninsula (2005-2007), including three cruises with the British Antarctic Survey (2005-2006) on the RRS James Clark Ross (Collection and processing of seawater, sediment cores, and biological samples)
• Research assistant with the British Antarctic Survey/Godwin Laboratory (2003-2004).
• Field assistant with Cambridge University (2004) and US Geological Survey (2002-2003)
• Laboratory assistant with National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in Wellington, New Zealand (2001)
• Researcher for Greenforce in Yadua, Fiji, including coral reef surveys (2000)
• Industrial trainee at the National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, UK (1999)