About Me

From an early fascination with palaeontology and later a desire to explore the mysteries of life's origins, my academic journey has been driven by a deep curiosity about Earth's ancient past. I earned my MEarthSci degree at the University of Oxford, where I immersed myself in a wide array of courses, ranging from sedimentary geology to palaeobiology, isotope geochemistry to volcanology. During my undergraduate degree, my interests centred around deciphering the interplay between biological evolution and environmental changes throughout Earth's history.​

For my Master's research, I focused on microfossils of the earliest Cambrian, examining their morphology and biostratigraphic significance. This work sparked my interest in the pivotal Ediacaran-Cambrian transition — the period when the first complex animal life flourished and began to reshape Earth's ecosystems.

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I am now pursuing a Ph.D. at Virginia Tech. My doctoral research will focus on Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary successions in China and Mongolia, regions that hold some of the most complete records from this period. By examining these successions, I aim to refine our understanding of how ecological and evolutionary innovations unfolded during this transformative interval in Earth’s history.

Looking ahead, beyond my Ph.D., I aspire to continue this line of inquiry through a postdoctoral position dedicated to early animal evolution. My long-term goal is to contribute to the broader effort of reconstructing the origins of complex life through the integration of palaeontological evidence with geochemical and stratigraphic insights in order to illuminate the processes that shaped the biosphere we inhabit today.