Positions held

September 2014 – present

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

September 2013 – August 2014

Marie Curie Actions International Outgoing Fellow

Joint postdoctoral project at Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, U.S.A. and Department of Chemistry, University College London, U.K.

June 2011 – August 2013

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Postdoctoral Researcher

Institut für Mineralogie, University of Münster, Germany.

February 2011

Industry Internship based at Sibelco Nordic AS and in association with Geode AS, Oslo, Norway.

March and September 2009

Global-COE Internship Student with “Global-COE Internship Program for Earth Planetary Sciences”

Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

October 2007 – September 2010

Guest Researcher Fellowship through Marie Curie Initial Training Network “MIN-GRO”

Institut für Mineralogie, University of Münster, Germany.

Education

October 2007 – May 2011

Doctorate (Magna Cum Laude) in Mineralogy at the Institut für Mineralogie, University of Münster, Germany.

September 2003 – June 2007

Master of Science (MSci) Second Upper Class in Chemistry, University College London, U.K.