I'm a University Lecturer in this department, working on remote sensing of planetary atmospheres. I have been a co-investigator on a number of spacecraft missions, such as Cassini/CIRS, Venus Express/VIRTIS and Rosetta/VIRTIS and I'm also involved with ground-based observations of the giant planets with telescopes such as IRTF, Gemini, UKIRT and VLT. My main research interests at present are the study of the gas giants, especially the ice giants (Uranus and Neptune) and also exoplanets.
Research interests
Planetary Atmospheres
Radiative transfer and retrievals
Selected publications
Detection of hydrogen sulfide above the clouds in Uranus’s atmosphere
Nature Astronomy Nature Publishing Group 2:2018 (2018) 420-427
2.5-D retrieval of atmospheric properties from exoplanet phase curves: Application to WASP-43b observations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP)
Latitudinal variation in the abundance of methane (CH4) above the clouds in Neptune's atmosphere from VLT/MUSE Narrow Field Mode Observations
Icarus Elsevier 331 (2019) 69-82
Analysis of gaseous ammonia (NH3) absorption in the visible spectrum of Jupiter - Update
Icarus Elsevier 321 (2018) 572-582