I completed my integrated masters in Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford in June 2020. I am now a DPhil Student on the NERC DTP in Environmental Research, as part of the Department of Earth Sciences.

Postgraduate

I am now reading for a DPhil (PhD) in Earth Sciences as part of the NERC DTP in Environmental Research. I am funded by a NERC studentship alongside a prestigious Oxford-Radcliffe Scholarship. My research focusses on earthquake determinism, please see the research page for more information about my experience and interests. I passed my Transfer of Status in January 2022.

Prizes and Scholarships

  • Oxford-Radcliffe Graduate Scholarship (£50 000)
  • NERC Studentship (£50 000)
  • Seismological Society of America Travel Grant for 2021 Annual Meeting (one of 14 awardees).
  • Seismological Society of America Student Presentation Award for my talk at the 2021 meeting (one of 19 awardees).
  • Department of Earth Sciences EEDI prize
  • BGA Gray-Milne Bursary (for Travel to Cargese earthquake school) (£500)

Teaching

The Oxford undergraduate course has a large component of small group teaching in tutorials. Giving tutorials involves setting questions and marking and giving feedback on work, including through writing termly reports to their main college tutors. I gave tutorials to a number of students (groups of 2–4) in:

  • 1st year Mathematics (fundamentals of calculus, differential equations, linear algebra and scientific computing) (2020-2021, 2021-2022)
  • 1st year Physics (mechanics and thermodynamics) (2020-2021)
  • 2nd year Earthquakes and Faulting (2021-2022)
  • 2nd year Geophysical Methods (seismology) (2021-2022)

I am a graduate demonstrator for practicals in:

  • 2nd year Earthquakes and Faulting (2021-2022)

Undergraduate

MEarthSci Earth Sciences, University of Oxford (2016-2020)

Results

  • Averaged 74.1% in the First Public Examination, therefore being granted an academic prize by the college and being made a Scholar.
  • Averaged 73.3% in Second Year Examinations
  • Averaged 70.5% in Third Year Examinations
  • Seismology, Earth Structure and Vector Calculus; Volcanology and Igneous Petrogenesis; Earth Materials, Rock Deformation and Metamorphism; Climate; Natural Resources; Sedimentary Basins.
  • Courses also taken in Geodynamics and Oceanography.
  • Averaged 74.8% in Fourth Year
    • Masters’ Project – Investigating earthquake precursors: can they help to constrain earthquake nucleation processes? Applied phase coherence methods using Linux based systems and Python 3. 78%
    • Fourth Year Courses: Topics in Volcanology (67%); Rock and Palaeomagnetism (70%); Planetary Chemistry (70%); Structure and Dynamics of the Earth’s Mantle (76%).

Prizes and Scholarships

  • Awarded the Schlumberger Prize for outstanding performance in Geophysics (June 2020).
  • Awarded a Geological Remote Sensing Group travel grant to annual conference at ESRIN in Italy (December 2019).
  • Awarded an Academic Prize from Worcester College for performance in the first Public Examination (June 2017).
  • Made a scholar of Worcester College for outstanding academic performance (June 2017).