Biography

I conducted the field-work for my PhD thesis in Tropical Ecology in Panama, Central America, and was awarded two postdoctoral fellowships to continue my work on carbon cycling in tropical forest for another 4 years. I then moved to CEH Wallingford, to train in molecular methods in microbial soil ecology to further investigate soil processes. In 2012, I started my current post as Lecturer in Environmental Sciences at the Open University and I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for a 5-year research project on forest carbon dynamics under climate change.