Summary
What happened to rocky planets? This is the question which my research aims to answer. I develop numerical models for the physical-chemical processes shaping (exo)planets over their billion-year lifetimes, with a focus on atmospheric processes. A holistic understanding of planetary evolution can explain observations of exoplanets and contextualise the origin of life. My work spans sub-Neptunes, super-Earths, and terrestrial planets — including the Earth.
My PhD was supported by a Clarendon Scholarship, a Margaret Thatcher Scholarship, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
I am now a postdoc Research Associate at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.
Research interests
Exoplanets
Astrochemistry
Radiative transfer
Planet formation
Thermodynamics
Selected publications
Convective shutdown in the atmospheres of lava worlds
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 536:3 (2024) 2957-2971
Self-limited tidal heating and prolonged magma oceans in the L 98-59 system
(2025)
AGNI: A radiative-convective model for lava planet atmospheres
Journal of Open Source Software The Open Journal 10:109 (2025) 7726-7726
Temperature–chemistry coupling in the evolution of gas giant atmospheres driven by stellar flares
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 523:4 (2023) 5681-5702