I graduated in 2007 with a MSci in Geography from the University of Bristol after which I completed a PhD (Awarded 2012) joint between the Schools of Geographical Sciences and Chemisty at University of Bristol, and Rothamsted Research - North Wyke. 

My NERC CASE PhD studentship research used organic biomarkers to trace the movement of cattle slurry in both dissolved and particulate forms through the soil-water system. My work provided new insights into the partitioning of cattle slurry within soil systems and how the organic and inorganic slurry components are transported through the soil system by flowing water and sediment transport. My PhD work stimulated my further research interests on the impact of agricultural pollution, both diffuse and point source, on water sources at large scales and on effective mitigation strategies.

Through my work as a postdoctoral researcher on the DEFRA-funded Demonstration Test Catchment (DTC) project I investigated these problems at the catchment scale. I was involved in advancing modelling and data analysis, working with high temporal resolution sensor data and developing a new statistical framework for quantifying data uncertainty in hydrochemical data and a new method for quantifying the hysteretic response of hydrochemical parameters during storm events. 

During my second PDRA post as part of the NERC funded DOMAINE project I have developed and tested laboratory methods for the extraction and characterisation of dissolved organic matter (DOM) using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques. I used these methods to characterise the DOM composition of water from both rivers and point sources to disentangle the complex DOM signatures in the aquatic environment.

I was awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship in 2019.