Research Interests

Research interests focus on meteoritics and planetary science and terrestrial igneous petrology.

• The nature of micrometeorites and meteorites
• The formation of planetary systems
• Impact processes and rocks
• The origins of life on Earth
• Astrobiology and Mars
• The nature of metal-bearing basalts
• Carbonatite magmatism

Planetary research is conducted as part of IARC 

Biography

• Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London 2002-present
• PDRA, Meteorites Division, Natural History Museum  1994-2002
• PhD, Geological Sciences, University College London 1989-1993
• BSc, Geology, RSM, Imperial College, 1987-1989

Recent Measures of Esteem

• 2009 Imperial College Teaching Fellowship for Innovation.
• 2009 Imperial College Teaching Excellence Award
• 2009 Faculty of Engineering Award for Teaching Excellence
• 2007 Invited lecture at Meteoroids, Barcelona
• 2006 US Antarctic Service Medal
• 2006 Asteroid named in honour of Matt Genge by the International Astronomical Union
• 2004 First UK member of the NASA CAPTEM Committee of Cosmic Dust
• 2004 NASA Stardust mission preliminary investigation team
• 2003 Dorothy Hodgkin Award, British Association for Science for excellence in science communication

Positions

• Member of the cosmic dust subcommittee of NASA CAPTEM.
• Advisor to the UK Government's Near Earth Objects Information Centre.
• Member of the NASA STARDUST mission preliminary examination team.
• Webmaster of the Meteoritical Society.