The core of my research involves performing experiments guided by petrological, geochronological and geochemical work on natural samples, with the ultimate goal of understanding the processes responsible for the physical and chemical evolution of the Earth and planetary bodies. I am particularly interested in studying the timescales of igneous and metamorphic processes through a combination of diffusion chronometry, thermobarometry, high-temperature thermochronology and textural analysis. In practice, this often involves experimentally quantifying the diffusion kinetic parameters of various elements and/or isotopes in both major rock-forming and accessory minerals, and then applying the results to make quantitative interpretations of a wide variety of data collected from field samples.
Since 2017, I have been working as an independent postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne, funded through an Ambizione grant I received from the Swiss National Science Foundation. My Ph.D. was completed in 2013 at the University of Arizona, and was followed by postdoctoral appointments at the University of Oregon (2014-2015) and the University of Lausanne (2015-2017).