About Me

I am a researcher working in the field of lunar resources, with a particular interest in accessing and utilising water and oxygen on the Moon. I started out studying physics for my undergraduate degree at the University of Sheffield and graduated in 2013. I then completed my teacher training in 2014 at Loughborough University and worked as a physics/science teacher in the Midlands. I returned to University to obtain my masters degree in Space Exploration Systems at the University of Leicester. Next, I moved on to the Open University where I completed my PhD in Planetary Science in 2020. My research was focussed on a technique to produce oxygen/water from lunar soils. The experiment I worked on will be trialled on the Moon with the ProSPA instrument being developed at the OU. During my PhD I worked as an intern at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston Texas as part of the 2018 Exploration Science Summer Intern program. Upon completion of my PhD I continued to work at the OU as a postdoctoral researcher with the LUVMI-X rover team where I worked on optimising the mass spectrometer design and protecting the instrument from the hazardous lunar dust. More recently, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Central Florida where I was involved in a number of space resources projects using the regolith simulants produced by Exolith. I now work at the University of Leicester as a Research Fellow. Here I am working with the Space Nuclear Power team and finding novel applications for nuclear power in extreme environments. As part of this work, I am the principle investigator for a UK Space Agency International Bilateral Fund project working with partners in the US, Japan, and Luxembourg. I have recently been appointed as Director of Space Missions and Technology Applications for the spin-out company Perpetual Atomics. In this role I am leading all of the international partner interfacing that spans industry and academia.​