My work adopts a cross-disciplinary approach, investigating large-scale planetary processes by studying the physics and chemistry of geomaterials.

This typically involves using large-volume, high-pressure apparatus to replicate conditions of planetary deep interiors, and analytical techniques such as in-situ diffraction and tomographic imaging, vibrational spectroscopy and various electron/ion beam methods. My research interests include constraining the processes of planetary differentiation in the early solar system, determining how volatiles are incorporated in planetary interiors and recycled through large-scale melting and tectonic processes, the role of plate tectonics in geochemical recycling within the Earth, and developing new techniques for visualising melt processes under extreme conditions.