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Biography

I have a BSc in Environmental and Resource Geology (2007) and a PhD in Earth Science (2012) from the University of Manchester. After my PhD, I was a Research Fellow at Aberystwyth University, then a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield where I held a . My children were born in 2016 and 2019 and I had career breaks around those years. In 2022, I was the Fondation Herbette visiting professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in Switzerland. In 2025, I was a Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. I am Editor-in-Chief of the . My ORCID is

I am responsible for the courses:

GEOV225 Field Course in Quaternary Geology and Palaeoclimate

GEOV181 Introduction to Earth Science and Informatics

I contribute to the course:

GEOV230 Glacial Geology and Geomorphology

A complete list of publications is available from ORCID:

Current research projects: 

2026–2030 Swiss National Science Foundation Project Funding (Co-I) (How) do glaciers buzzsaw? Spatial and temporal variability of glacial erosion and relief development. (PI: Georgina King, UNIL).

2024–2027 NERC Pushing the Frontiers (Project Co-Lead International) Losing their Cool: Are high elevation heat exchanges warming Himalayan glaciers? (PI: Duncan Quincey, Leeds)

2025–2026 Quaternary Research Association/Mount Everest Foundation (PI) An Erosion Rate for Everest (pilot project)

2024–2027 HK-Dir UTFORSK (Co-I) CO-INVENT: Cooperative project between India and Norway on studying cryo-climatology of the glaciated Himalayan region. (PI: Ben Robson, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´)

Current PhD candidate supervision: 

(ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´) is observing the evolution of rock glaciers over large spatial scales using Deep Learning techniques applied to remote datasets. 

(ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´) is researching how palaeoclimate signals are recorded in ice-marginal moraines in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. 

George Young (ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´) is exploring differences in glaciation between the westerly and monsoon-influenced Himalaya.

(NTNU) focuses on glacier hazards evolution such as outburst floods and droughts in Norway and Switzerland.

Former PhD candidate supervision:

(University of Sheffield, 2026) PhD thesis title: "Reconstructing the Holocene evolution of glaciers in the Olivares Basin (33°S), Chile"

Alex Scoffield (University of Leeds, 2025) PhD thesis title: "Ice-contact lakes and their influence on Himalayan glacier evolution"

Will Wenban (University of Sheffield, 2024) PhD thesis title: "Spatio-temporal dynamics of glacial erosion in high Alpine catchments"

Josephine Hornsey (University of Sheffield, 2022) PhD thesis title: "Holocene moraine building in the monsoonal Himalaya"

Katie Miles (Aberystwyth University, 2021) PhD thesis title: "The internal structure and subsurface hydrology of a high-elevation debris-covered glacier"

Anya Schlich-Davies (University of Leeds, 2021) PhD thesis title: "The role of atmospheric forcing in the mass balance and evolution of a debris-covered Himalayan glacier"

Archana Dayal (University of Sheffield, 2021) PhD thesis title: "Seasonal Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry of Snow during Spring and Summer Melt in Svalbard"

Arminel Lovell (University of Newcastle, 2020) PhD thesis title: "Explaining recent heterogeneous glacier change in the Annapurna Conservation Area, central Himalayas"

Owen King (University of Leeds, 2018) PhD thesis title: "Characterising the evolution of Himalayan debris covered glaciers"

Morgan Gibson (Aberystwyth University, 2018) PhD thesis title: "The role of supraglacial debris in Himalaya–Karakoram debris-covered glacier systems"

Scott Watson (University of Leeds, 2017) PhD thesis title: "Ice cliff, supraglacial pond, and water storage dynamics in the Everest region of Nepal"