STEM Faculty

I am the Microbiology Lab Manager, within the school of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, STEM Faculty. My role is to lead the lab support team assisting users of the lab area and take the lead on H&S within the lab areas.

My background is geology and geochemistry, having worked in the labs in EEES at the OU for since finishing my PhD in 2011. After supervising noble gas geochemistry labs and a secondment as Lab Manager for Life, Health and Chemical Sciences (2024) I moved into a H&S support role and now into this role as Lab Manager for Microbiology.

I am a Biological Safety Officer,  Radiation Protection Supervisor and Laser Protection Supervisor and have completed a a Nebosh General Certificate in Occupational Heath and Safety (2019) and a Biosafety Practitioner Level 1 course (BTI, 2025)

PhD Student Supervision

Sander Hoogendoorn: Completed 2024

Simone Cogliati: Completed 2019

Eleni Wood: Completed 2019

Previous Research

• 2011 – 2013: Project Officer The Open University, Timing of volcanism and intrusive activity in and around the Faroe Islands
• PhD 2011, The Open University “PhD: Paleocene-Eocene Time-Stratigraphic Calibration in the North Atlantic Igneous Province with Focus on the Faroes-Shetland Basin Area”