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Biography

Research interests: my research focusses on the use of geochemistry for understanding the evolution of the Earth's mantle and the processes that create heterogeneity in the compositions of magmas that erupt at different tectonic settings.

Projects

Selenium in Volcanic Environments

Finding the missing evidence for Earth's magma ocean: a novel stable isotope approach

Selenium and Tellurium

From Arc Magmas to Ores (FAMOS): A mineral systems approach

Enrichment of Critical Elements in Granites: melting process or protolith

Mantle Volatiles: Contemporary Processes, Reservoirs And Fluxes (Project Student)

Mantle volatiles: contemporary processes, reservoirs and fluxes

Study of the ore-forming process of purphyry ore system in Iran in the deep crust

Publications

Book Chapter

The use of geochemistry for placing constraints on mantle melting processes and the evolution of mantle heterogeneity (2025)

Chalcophile Elements: Systematics and Relevance (2021)

Episodic Eoarchaean crustal accretion (3.87 to 3.66 Ga) in West Greenland (Itsaq Gneiss Complex) and in northeastern China: review and synthesis (2009)

Journal Article

The effect of diffusion on lithium isotope ratios in Icelandic basalts (2024)

Chalcophile element degassing at an active continental arc volcano (2024)

Sulfide saturation and resorption modulates sulfur and metal availability during the 2014–15 Holuhraun eruption, Iceland (2024)

Trace Element Emissions Vary With Lava Flow Age and Thermal Evolution During the Fagradalsfjall 2021–2023 Eruptions, Iceland (2024)

Sulfide resorption contributes to porphyry deposit formation in collisional settings (2023)

Evolution of the crustal phosphorus reservoir (2023)

Effects of mantle flow on the chemistry of Coriolis Troughs backarc magmas (2022)

Tracing Volatiles, Halogens, and Chalcophile Metals During Melt Evolution at the Tolbachik Monogenetic Field, Kamchatka (2022)

Arc crust formation of Lesser Antilles revealed by crustal xenoliths from Petit St. Vincent (2022)

Ancient and recycled sulfur sampled by the Iceland mantle plume (2022)

Explosive activity on Kīlauea's Lower East Rift Zone fuelled by a volatile‐rich, dacitic melt (2022)

The Influence of Ridge Subduction on the Geochemistry of Vanuatu Arc Magmas (2022)

Global Ba/Nb systematics in arc magmas reflect the depths of mineral dehydration in subducted slabs (2022)

Critical metal enrichment in crustal melts: the role of metamorphic mica (2022)

Phosphorus mineral evolution and prebiotic chemistry: From minerals to microbes (2021)

Amphibole Control on Copper Systematics in Arcs: Insights from the Analysis of Global Datasets (2021)

Reconstructing Magma Storage Depths for the 2018 Kı̄lauean Eruption from Melt inclusion CO2 Contents: The Importance of Vapor Bubbles (2021)

Petrologic monitoring at Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala (2020)

Chalcophile elements track the fate of sulfur at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai’i (2020)

Elevated magma fluxes deliver high-Cu magmas to the upper crust (2020)

Chalcophile element processing beneath a continental arc stratovolcano (2019)

Deep roots for mid-ocean-ridge volcanoes revealed by plagioclase-hosted melt inclusions (2019)

Diamondites: evidence for a distinct tectono-thermal diamond-forming event beneath the Kaapvaal craton (2019)

Widespread tephra dispersal and ignimbrite emplacement from a subglacial volcano (Torfajökull, Iceland) (2019)

Sulfide resorption during crustal ascent and degassing of oceanic plateau basalts (2019)

Crystal scavenging from mush piles recorded by melt inclusions (2019)

Cumulate causes for the low contents of sulfide-loving elements in the continental crust (2017)

Fractionation of Li, Be, Ga, Nb, Ta, In, Sn, Sb, W and Bi in the peraluminous Early Permian Variscan granites of the Cornubian Batholith: precursor processes to magmatic-hydrothermal mineralisation (2017)

Geodynamic implications for zonal and meridional isotopic patterns across the northern Lau and North Fiji Basins (2017)

Causes of the Compositional Variability among Ocean Floor Basalts (2016)

Major and Trace Element Analysis of Natural and Experimental Igneous Systems using LA–ICP–MS (2016)

The competing effects of sulfide saturation versus degassing on the behavior of the chalcophile elements during the differentiation of hydrous melts (2015)

Coupled Hf-Nd-Pb isotope co-variations of HIMU oceanic island basalts from Mangaia, Cook-Austral islands, suggest an Archean source component in the mantle transition zone (2013)

Eoarchean within-plate Basalts from southwest Greenland (2013)

The global pattern of trace-element distributions in ocean floor basalts (2012)

Mantle flow, volatiles, slab-surface temperatures, and melting dynamics in the north Tonga Arc–Lau Backarc Basin (2012)

Chalcophile element systematics in volcanic glasses from the northwestern Lau Basin (2012)

Major and trace analysis of basaltic glasses by laser-ablation ICP-MS (2012)

Analysis of 60 elements in 616 ocean floor basaltic glasses (2012)

Tungsten isotopes as tracers of core-mantle interactions: the influence of subducted sediments (2010)

The magnetite crisis in the evolution of arc-related magmas and the initial concentration of Au, Ag and Cu (2010)

Determination of selenium concentrations in NIST SRM 610, 612, 614 and geological glass reference materials using the electron probe, LA-ICP-MS and SHRIMP II (2009)

Evidence for subduction at 3.8 Ga: geochemistry of arc-like metabasalts from the southern edge of the Isua Supracrustal Belt (2009)

Other

Lithophile Elements (2018)