About me:

I am a geomorphologist using a combination of remote sensing, environmental sensor networks, and numerical modeling to investigate earth surface dynamics and hazards, predominantly in mountainous regions. I was the 2020 EGU Outstanding Early Career Scientist in Geomorphology and am an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter.

My passion for geomorphology really started during a BSc and MSc in Geography at Durham University, where I studied glacial landsystems and paraglacial dynamics in Iceland with Dave Evans. In 2009 I moved to Switzerland to do my PhD with Peter Molnar at ETH Zurich. My PhD research focused on landslide and debris flow processes in a Swiss alpine catchment and culminated in a new model, SedCas, now being applied in other catchments to model sediment cascades and debris flow hazard. Following my PhD, I moved to the USA where I worked with Josh Roering at the University of Oregon on longer term landscape evolution in northern California and particularly the role of slow moving landslides. In a second postdoc at the US Forest Service and Colorado State University (2015 – 2016), I investigated the response of catchments in the Colorado Front Range to an extreme flood event and learned a lot about fluvial geomorphology whilst roaming around the Rockies with Sandra Ryan and Sara Rathburn.

I returned to the UK in 2017 as Lecturer in Physical Geography of Natural Hazards at UEA where I took advantage of the rich, interdisciplinary nature of the School of Environmental Sciences and started to build a research group. Since late 2019, I am a Lecturer and now Associate Professor in Physical Geography at the University of Exeter. I am currently a Co I on EXCESS, SUPERSLUG and EvoFlood. I was previously PI on SENSUM, BOULDER and SCaRP and a Co I on GLOP. You can read more about these projects and my geomorphology group at my external website.

Broad research specialisms:
Mountain and Coastal Geomorphology, Landslide hazards, Environmental Sensors and Remote Sensing

Qualifications:

PhD in Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
BSc and MSc in Geography, Durham University