I'm a NERC postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. I'm currently based in the Ar-Ar and Noble Gas Research Laboratory, but am also commonly found lurking in the electron microprobe lab and the LA-ICP-MS lab.
My research centres around the evolution of mountain belts, and I am particularly interested in finding ways to improve geochronological and thermobarometric techniques in order to track where material goes during mountain building and how/where/why it comes back to the surface again.
My currrent research focusses on how high pressure continental crustal rocks exhume from mantle depths back up to the surface. I use a combination of geochronological techniques, including Ar/Ar and U-Pb, field studies and numerical modelling to try to figure out what is going on. My field areas include Oman, the Alps and Norway.
