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.
Research interests
Planetary Atmospheres
Radiative transfer and retrievals
Selected publications
Modelling the seasonal cycle of Uranus’s colour and magnitude, and comparison with Neptune
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 527:4 (2024) 11521-11538
Spectral determination of the colour and vertical structure of dark spots in Neptune's atmosphere
ArXiv 2308.12889 (2023)
Hazy blue worlds: A holistic aerosol model for Uranus and Neptune, including Dark Spots
ArXiv 2201.04516 (2022)
Detection of hydrogen sulfide above the clouds in Uranus’s atmosphere
Nature Astronomy Nature Publishing Group 2:2018 (2018) 420-427