I am an Astrobiology PhD student at the University of Westminster, with a First Class Honours degree in Planetary Science with Astronomy. My current research focus is the detection and characterisation of spectroscopic biosignatures on Mars by working with analogue samples from a number of locations on Earth.

I am an active science communicator, a member of the Astrobiology Society of Britain Committee and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

My public engagement and outreach activities involve delivering talks in Planetary Science, Astrobiology and Astronomy to children and adults, and producing events for my space science outreach project AromAtom, funded in 2017. I also design space science related activities for museums, science and discovery centres.

Please get in touch if you have any questions, if you would like me to visit your school or talk at one of your events.

Example talks:

• Martian extremophiles: Potential extinct and extant life on Mars.

• How could humans live on Mars?

• Detection of biosignatures on Mars.

• Extremophiles: Guiding the search for extraterrestrial life.

• AromAtom: A creative approach to Planetary Science outreach and public engagement.

Interviews:

• Smelling space with AromAtom, NatureVolve magazine, issue 4, pg. 33-36.

• DARK: Chats about space, the universe and beyond.

• Astrobiología y el olor del espacio (Astrobiology and the smell of space, in Spanish).

Publications:

• Infrared Spectroscopic Detection of Biosignatures at Lake Tírez, Spain: Implications for Mars.

  Journal: Astrobiology

• AromAtom: sharing science through smell.

  Astronomy & Geophysics, Oxford University Press.

• AromAtom: An Olfactory Approach to Science Communication and Public Engagement.

  The Biochemist, Portland Press Limited.

Accepted Professional Abstracts:

• The Smell of Space: A Creative Approach to Planetary Science Outreach and Public Engagement. 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) 2019, Houston.

• Infrared Spectroscopic Investigation of Biosignatures in Calcium Sulphate Deposits of Tírez Lake: Implications for Mars. Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) 2019, Seattle.

• Degradation of spectroscopic biosignatures by ionising radiation on Mars: Implications for ExoMars 2020. Biennial European Astrobiology Conference (BEACON) 2020, La Palma.