About
I explore Earth’s recent geological past to uncover how climate, landscapes, and life have evolved — and what they can teach us about our planet’s future. My research focuses on reconstructing past climates and landscapes, with a particular emphasis on loess–palaeosol deposits — windblown dust and ancient soils that preserve detailed records of environmental change. I specialise in palaeoclimatology, palaeoenvironments, geochronology, geochemistry, and sedimentology, and am interested in supervising students in these areas.
By combining geochronological techniques (Optically Stimulate Luminescence) with geochemical analyses (U–Pb zircon dating, Hf isotopes, and elemental/isotopic composition), I investigate the provenance, transport pathways, and deposition of sediments. This work sheds light on sediment production, atmospheric circulation, dust fluxes, and landscape evolution, enabling more accurate reconstructions of local, regional, and global environmental change. My work bridges field observations with laboratory analyses to produce high-resolution reconstructions of environmental change.
I work actively across disciplines and welcome collaborations that push the boundaries of sediment provenance research, advance Quaternary climate reconstruction, environmental background for archaeological research and innovate in geochronological and geochemical methods.
As the BSc Geography Programme Director, I oversee and support all BSc Geography cohorts, and lead the ongoing development of the undergraduate curriculum to ensure it remains aligned with the latest research, industry needs, and teaching innovation.
Prior to joining the University of Liverpool, I held posts at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford and at Oxford Brookes University. I completed my NERC-funded PhD at the University of Oxford on the provenance of late Quaternary loess along the middle and lower Danube, following an MSc in Quaternary Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a BSc in Geography and Environmental Management at the University of the West of England.