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Scroll down for information on current and previous academic positions, education, professional memberships, peer-review and mentoring activities.

Current Positions (Academic and Service)

• Assistant Research Scientist: Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-6004, USA; March 2018 – present.
• Extraterrestrial Materials Assessment Group: Vice Chair (Sept 2021 – present), At-large Member (March 2019 – Sept 2021).

Previous Academic Positions

• NASA Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow/Carnegie Postdoctoral Associate: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015-1305, USA; Sept 2013 – Sept 2015.

Primary project: Petrology of, and presolar grains and organic matter in, primitive chondrites: Effects of parent body processes.

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Hawai’i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA; 2012 – 2013.

Primary project: Compositional and isotopic links between CV and CK carbonaceous chondrites: A single asteroidal alteration sequence?

• Postdoctoral Research Associate: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Dept. of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; 2010 – 2012.

Primary projects: (1) Petrographic and compositional links between CV and CK carbonaceous chondrites: A common parent body? (2) Development of combined LIBS and LA-ICP-MS for the analysis of volatile, major, minor and trace elements in planetary materials. (3) OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission Science Team Collaborator and Education and Public Outreach Working Group Member.

• OSIRIS-REx Web Developer: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Dept. of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; 2011 – 2012.
  
• Consultant (NanoSIMS): Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, Open University, UK; Sept. – Dec 2009.
  
• Paneth Meteorite Trust Research Intern: Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, Open University, UK; June – September 2006.

Project: Characterization and analysis of micrometeorites extracted from Triassic salts.

Advisor: Monica M. Grady

Education

Ph.D. in Planetary Science and Cosmochemistry, 2009

The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute

Thesis: NanoSIMS and Beyond: Presolar grains in primitive materials and Solar System formation.

Advisors: Henner Busemann, Ian A. Franchi, Monica M. Grady

M.Sci in Geoscience, 1st Class (Honors, Dunelm), 2006

Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Department of Earth Sciences

Thesis: Petrological and geochemical constraints on the genesis of high-Ti and low-Ti basalts from the Moon.

Advisor: D. Graham Pearson

Collaborators: Larry Taylor, James Day, Eddy Hill

Memberships/Professional Bodies

The Meteoritical Society

The Geochemical Society

American Geophysical Union

Peer-review activities

American Mineralogist (1)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters (4)

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (6)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (1)

Meteoritics and Planetary Science (6)

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2)

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy (2)

Nature Astronomy (5)

Nature Communications (2)

Science Advances (3)

Mentorship Activities

I have worked with numerous students on papers (see * on publication pages) and mentored in a supervisory capacity, as follows:

Andrea Distel (2021–present; Graduate student, ASU). Primary co-supervisor (genesis of research project, implementation, and guiding student through research principles, sample preparation, data collection, data reduction, interpretation, conference abstract and future manuscript preparation) and committee member.

Xeynab Mouti (2019–present; Barrett Fellows @ CLAS Centers program, ASU; NASA Space Grant Fellow). Primary co-supervisor (genesis of research project, implementation, and guiding student through research principles, data reduction, interpretation, and preparation of a conference abstract and future manuscript). Student was awarded a NASA Space Grant Fellowship to continue initial honors college internship project.

Zachary Torrano (2019–2020; Graduate student, ASU). Advised and collaborated with student on PhD research (implementation, guiding student through data acquisition and reduction, interpretation, and preparation of two manuscripts). Resulted in two peer-reviewed manuscripts (student first author).

Jasmine Nguyen (2019–2020; Barrett Fellows @ CLAS Centers program, ASU). Primary co-supervisor. Primary co-supervisor (genesis of research project, implementation, and guiding student through research principles and data reduction that will be contributed to a future manuscript publication).

Harold Carrigan (2017–2018; Barrett Fellows @ CLAS Centers program, ASU). Research implementation, analysis, and interpretation of data that will be contributed to a future manuscript publication.

Jennifer Sierchio (2010–2011; Independent study; University of Arizona). Secondary supervisor. Research implementation, analysis, and interpretation of data that resulted in a first author abstract for the student.

Several work experience students (2006–2009; Open University). Co-supervisor. Worked with students in a laboratory environment, showed them sample preparation techniques and provided scanning electron microscope training.