VMSG - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the VMSG Committee
- Events / Outreach
Brendan is a volcanologist at the University of Manchester, interested in the behaviour of volatiles in magmatic systems and the emissions of gases into the atmosphere.
Job Titles:
- Member of the VMSG Committee
Claire is a volcanologist currently at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on volcanic instability through combining numerical modelling with laboratory deformation.
Job Titles:
- Member of the VMSG Committee
David is a geochemist and igneous petrologist at the University of Manchester, interested in the evolution and behaviour of magma reservoirs on Earth and beyond.
Job Titles:
- Member of the VMSG Committee
- Web Manager
Ed is a first year PhD student at the University of Leicester, researching caldera forming eruptions in the English Lake District. The research primarily utilises field mapping and geochemistry. He also studies virtual volcanoes in video games.
Job Titles:
- Member of the VMSG Committee
Awards & Bursaries [she/her]
Emma is a volcanologist at University College London. Her research combines fieldwork and remote sensing to explore the transport and emission of magmatic volatile elements, and the implications for volcanic hazard.
Job Titles:
- Member of the VMSG Committee
- Social Media & Website [He / Him]
James is Earth Risk Research Lead for insurance broker WTW's Research Network, working with a range of academic and industrial partners. His research collaborations centre around geohazards such as volcanic eruption, earthquake, landslide and tsunami.
Job Titles:
- Treasurer of the VMSG Committee
James is a volcanologist at the University of Exeter. His primary research interests are in the processes controlling the dynamics of active and restless volcanoes and the geophysical and geochemical signals they produce, with an overarching aim of helping to improve eruption forecasting and hazard assessment capabilities.
Job Titles:
- Member of the VMSG Committee
- Equality & Diversity [She / Her
Katie is a volcanologist at Swansea University. Her research is focused on resolving volcanic stratigraphies and eruption histories, eruption dynamics, and pre-eruptive magmatic processes, by integrating field studies with a variety of petrological, geochronological and geochemical techniques.
Job Titles:
- Member of the VMSG Committee
- Student Rep [She / Her]
Kerys is a PhD student at the University of Birmingham. Her research aims to explore how magma-reservoirs evolve following edifice destruction, particularly looking at the volcanoes of Anak Krakatau and Ritter Island.
Job Titles:
- Member of the VMSG Committee
Lara is a social volcanologist at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on evidence-based education and outreach for volcanic and global catastrophic risks. She is also interested in exploring the societal impacts of high-impact eruption scenarios.
Job Titles:
- Member of the VMSG Committee
Pete is a volcanologist at the University of the West of England. His research focusses on exploring pyroclastic density current behaviours and deposits, and the resilience of volcanic materials to deformation and slope failure.
Job Titles:
- Member of the VMSG Committee
- Student Rep
Rahul is a PhD student at the University of Manchester, who employs both petrological and geochemical techniques to study actively evolving mush systems.
Job Titles:
- Member of the VMSG Committee
- Treasurer
- Treasurer ( Out - Going ) [He / Him]
Sami wants to understand how the interior of a planet affects and controls the composition of its surface, and how volcanic degassing relates to long-term habitability. His research at the University of St Andrews combines isotopic and petrological investigations of natural samples alongside high-pressure and high-temperature experimental and theoretical geochemistry.
Job Titles:
- Secretary of the VMSG Committee
Seb is a volcanologist at the University of Birmingham. His research investigates the physical and chemical processes that control the behavior and long-term development of volcanoes. Most of this work focuses on volcanism in subduction zones.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chairman of the VMSG Committee
Tamsin is a volcanologist at the University of Oxford. Her current research includes studying the environmental effects of volcanoes in the present-day and over geological time and seeking to understand their internal plumbing, behaviour and hazards using petrological, geochemical, geophysical and satellite measurements.