CO₂ mineralisation, CO₂ capture and storage (CCS), climate change mitigation technologies, geothermal energy, noble gas and stable isotope geochemistry monitoring of unconventional gas

I am a Professor of Geochemistry in the School of GeoSciences, at University of Edinburgh. I was educated in Earth Science at the University of Glasgow (BSc) and Geology at the University of Manchester (PhD), and have 19 years of post-PhD experience of innovative geochemical research in CO₂ origins and its geological storage. I have developed a means of fingerprinting CO₂ in order to track its movement and means of storage in subsurface reservoirs, as part of efforts to develop carbon capture and storage technologies. More recently, I have applied my expertise to the emerging GeoEnergy sector through novel monitoring of unconventional gas extraction, CO₂ contamination in, and connectivity of, hydrocarbon fields and in-situ mineral storage of CO₂. I have a keen interest in all areas of utilising the subsurface for energy production or storage and am currently the Programme Director for the GeoEnergy MSc course at Edinburgh, which I co-developed.