About
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• Early Career Fellow in Nature-based Climate Solutions with focus on ERW, University of Sheffield (Sep 2024 – present).
• Leader in ERW Microbiology – I lead the metagenomics/transcriptomics efforts in the longest-running ERW trial in the world [3]. Also I have carried out work on the rock grain metagenomics of natural ecosystems – tropical rainforests in Panama [7] and Australia [23].
• Developer of one of the first biotech solutions for C capture with ERW [5].
• Discovered a novel order of Fe cycling bacteria from tropical forest soils [24].
• Developer of the first comprehensive code-free database tool for analysis of global and local patterns in Fe cycling microbes and their genes in omics data [11].
• Co-developer of key methods for measurement of ERW CO2 removal currently used in field trials [25].
• PhD advisor experience – I have supervised Dr Derek Bell (2020-2024; thesis on carbonic anhydrases & mycorrhizal symbioses in ERW) and Miss Issie Steeley (ERW with cocoa, 2023-ongoing).
• Post-doctoral research associate, Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation, University of Sheffield (Jan 2019 – July 2024).
• PhD in Biogeochemistry and Environmental Microbiology with thesis title: “Tropical legume trees and their soil-mineral microbiome: biogeochemistry and routes to enhanced mineral access” at the University of Sheffield, UK. Funding: European Research Council (Sep 2014 – Sep 2018).
• BSc Biological Sciences (Molecular Plant Sciences), The University of Edinburgh, UK (Sep 2011 – May 2014).
Joined
February 2025
