PhD, Geomicrobiology & Biogeochemistry
ABOUT ME
ABOUT ME
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I am a geomicrobiologist/biogeochemist fascinated by the ways in which microbial life shapes the natural world. I am particularly interested in microbes that "breathe" iron, and form or dissolve minerals in the process. My group studies the physiology of these iron-metabolizing microbes and their influence on the biogeochemistry of soils, sediments, and aquatic habitats.
When I'm not swooning over rusty puddles, you'll find me enthusiastically tending my plants or settling in to my new home in Bristol where I recently became a lecturer in Environmental Geoscience.
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UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
April 2020 - present
Lecturer in Environmental Geoscience, School of Earth Sciences
UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN
January 2018- April 2020
Junior Research Group Leader in Geomicrobiology, Center for Applied Geoscience
UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN
January 2016 - December 2018
Postdoc in Geomicrobiology w/ Prof. Andreas Kappler, Center for Applied Geoscience
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
September 2011 - November 2015
PhD in Geomicrobiology and Astrobiology w/ Prof. Charles Cockell, School of Physics and Astronomy
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
September 2007 - July 2011
BSc. (Hons) Earth Science