I have been at the University of Plymouth since 2018 as an academic member of staff teaching on the geology programmes. My research is focussed on understanding tectonics, active faulting and earthquakes, particularly focussing on earthquake dynamics and interaction.

Since February 2021, I am UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and my project is "Quake4D - building physics-based, geologically-rich models for investigating earthquake interaction and seismic hazard", which will run for the next 4 years. This project will combine high-quality geological data with start-of-the-art computer simulations to generate a new approach to simulating synthetic earthquakes and quantifying seismic hazard.

Associate editor for Basin Research, 2021 - 2022.

Topical editor on Structural Geology and Tectonics for Solid Earth EGU journal, 2020 – 2022.

Early Career Representation for the Tectonics Studies Group (a Specialist Group of the Geological Society of London) 2020 - 2022.

Scientific Officer for Tectonics and Structural Geology division, European Geosciences Union, 2019 - 2023.

I currently supervise one PhD student:

Manuel Diercks (primary supervisor): Fault interaction and seismic hazard in Western Turkey 

Prizes awarded:

2023: Buller lecturer prize, awarded by the British Geophysical Association

2020: Halstead Award for early career researchers, Geologists Association, cash prize £500.

2016: JpGU Student Outstanding Presentation Award, May 2016. Title “How variable normal fault geometry affects fault interaction and stress transfer, using examples from the Italian Apennines”.

2013: BGA Postgraduate Talk, 2nd prize. September 2013. Talk title “Non-double-couple earthquakes in Krafla volcano, Iceland”

2012: Paleontological Association Prize: Awarded to the highest palaeontology mark amongst third year undergraduates, University of Cambridge.