I joined the faculty of IMCS as Assistant Professor this summer. MY position at Rutgers is jointly with the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. I received my M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, where I studied Mediterranean sapropels as well as hydrothermal metalliferous deposits from the mid-Atlantic ridge. 
Following a postdoc in the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my most recent appointment was as a Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California-Riverside.
My research interests are in the cycling of metals, nutrients, carbon and sulfur as they relate to the Earth's biogeochemical evolution. Although many of my colleagues probably shudder at the thought of me swinging a rock hammer, my joint appointment reflects my interest in the the ancient geological records at the dawn of life to the processes that control primary productivity in the modern ocean. To this effect I study chemical and isotopic tracers in oceans, lakes and rivers to gain a better understanding how the interactions between physical, chemical and biological processes are recorded the sedimentary archive. In particular, I have made significant contributions to the development of "heavy" stable isotopes, such as Fe and Mo, as new paleo-proxies. The development of a diverse range of paleo-proxies, and their ground-truthing in analogous modern environments, is key to unravelling the geological record of the evolving ocean and atmosphere, and the early evolution of life.