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, where I am exploring the evolutionary dynamics of the Ediacaran and Cambrian in order to better understand the profound impact early macroscopic animals had on environmental processes. By investigating the origins and ecological roles of these early organisms, I aim to shed light on the evolutionary innovations that define our planet's biosphere.