Lecturer in Geology (2024-Present)  

University of Sydney, School of Geosciences 

Lecturer in Geology and geoscience researcher, with a focus on integrating geochemical Big Data with numerical modelling of geological processes. Active projects include incorporating regional thermochronology constraints into plate tectonic and landscape evolution modelling, and applied studies in Kenya, East Africa, New Zealand and Australia. 

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Research Fellow in Tectonics & Thermochronology (2019-2024)  

University of Melbourne, School of Geography, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences 

Leader of the Melbourne Thermochronology Research Group, managing laboratories, acquiring funding, PhD  student supervision, and driving fundamental and applied research. Active projects include incorporating machine learning into digital fission track analysis protocols, and applied  studies in Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, Turkey, China, USA and Australia. 

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Research Fellow (2022-2023)

University of Adelaide, Department of Earth Sciences  

Member of the Tectonics & Earth Systems (TES) Group investigating the interplay between tectonics, climate, and resources during the upper crustal thermal evolution of Gondwana in  response to continental breakup over the last 200 million years.  

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Platform Architecture Advisor (2019-present)

AuScope Geochemistry Network 

A leading member of the AuScope Geochemistry Network, an Australian consortium of Earth Science Institutes cooperating to develop national geochemistry infrastructure. Their flagship  project is the development of AusGeochem, a FAIR data platform enabling researchers to solve geoscience challenges through geospatial interrogation of geochemistry Big Data. 

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Postdoctoral Researcher (2018-2019)  

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institute of Geosciences, Germany 

Applying isotope geochemistry to constrain the interrelationships of Archean basement  terranes from East Africa, Madagascar and India prior to and during the amalgamation of the  Gondwana supercontinent. 

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Graduate (PhD) Researcher (2014-2018)

The University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences  

Investigated rift inception and propagation processes in East Africa through integration of field observation, structural geology, fission track, (U-Th)/He, EPMA geochemistry and thermal history modelling techniques.

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Researcher (2014-2015) 

Iolite Software, Australia 

Tested product and wrote user manual for the laser ablation ICP-MS data reduction software, Iolite V3.  

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Graduate (MSc) Researcher (2012-2013)

The University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences  

Investigated the thermal signature of an ancient Cretaceous aquifer system in central Australia using low-temperature thermochronology.

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Research Assistant (2011)

University of Bremen, Department of Geosciences, Germany 

Aided Simon Elfert, under the direction of Prof. Cornelia Spiegel, in apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He dating and designing an exhumation simulation for the Lepontine Dome, southwestern Alps, using the Pecube finite-element code.