Qualifications and Awards
Departmental Research Sabbatical (funded)
February - September 2019
Oxford Brookes University
Achievement, Contribution and Excellence (ACE) Award
Summer 2018
Oxford Brookes University
Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (PCTHE)
September 2013 - July 2014
Oxford Brookes University
Associate Lecturer Certificate
January 2013 - June 2013
Oxford Brookes University
Ph.D - Organic Geochemistry/Climate Change
"Evaluation of spore wall chemistry as a novel biochemical proxy for UV-B radiation"
October 2004 - May 2008
NERC: NER/A/S/2002/00865
The Open University
MSc. - Climate Change
October 2003 - 2004
Climatic Research Unit, The University of East Anglia
BSc. - Surveying for Resource Development
September 2002 - August 2003
The University of Glamorgan
BSc.(HONS) - Geology
September 1999 - June 2002
The University of Birmingham
February - September 2019
Oxford Brookes University
Achievement, Contribution and Excellence (ACE) Award
Summer 2018
Oxford Brookes University
Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (PCTHE)
September 2013 - July 2014
Oxford Brookes University
Associate Lecturer Certificate
January 2013 - June 2013
Oxford Brookes University
Ph.D - Organic Geochemistry/Climate Change
"Evaluation of spore wall chemistry as a novel biochemical proxy for UV-B radiation"
October 2004 - May 2008
NERC: NER/A/S/2002/00865
The Open University
MSc. - Climate Change
October 2003 - 2004
Climatic Research Unit, The University of East Anglia
BSc. - Surveying for Resource Development
September 2002 - August 2003
The University of Glamorgan
BSc.(HONS) - Geology
September 1999 - June 2002
The University of Birmingham
Professional Activity
- Member of the European Association of Geochemistry
- Member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
- Geochemistry Group special interest group of the Geological Society of London, and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland: Ordinary Committee Member. 2013-present
- Communications Officer, Geochemistry Group. 2016-present.
- Journal reviewer: Plant, Cell and Environment; Grana; New Phytologist; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution; Physiologia Plantarum; Functional Plant Biology; Proceedings of the Royal Society; Nature Scientific Reports; The Holocene; Palaeontology; Frontiers in Materials; Journal of Phycology.
- Grant reviewer: Natural Environment Research Couuncil; Czech Science Foundation; Austrian Science Fund.
- Expert Reviewer, IPCC AR6.
- Member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
- Geochemistry Group special interest group of the Geological Society of London, and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland: Ordinary Committee Member. 2013-present
- Communications Officer, Geochemistry Group. 2016-present.
- Journal reviewer: Plant, Cell and Environment; Grana; New Phytologist; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution; Physiologia Plantarum; Functional Plant Biology; Proceedings of the Royal Society; Nature Scientific Reports; The Holocene; Palaeontology; Frontiers in Materials; Journal of Phycology.
- Grant reviewer: Natural Environment Research Couuncil; Czech Science Foundation; Austrian Science Fund.
- Expert Reviewer, IPCC AR6.