Chair of the Environmental Mineralogy Group special interest group of the Mineralogical Society of UK and Ireland (https://www.minersoc.org/emg.html)
Web editor and committee member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Group (https://www.envchemgroup.com/)
PhD committee/examiner: Valerio Cappadona, University of Strathclyde, 2020 (external); Isobel Stanton, University of Exeter, 2019 (internal); Matthew Kirby, Imperial College London, 2019 (external)
Outreach
Metals and Radioactive Substance Bioremediation – a child centric microbiology education framework, 2021
“Geomicrobiology – how microbes change the Earth” public lecture for the Royal Cornwall Geological Society, 2021
'Making Microbes Work for Us' public lecture, Dorset, 2020
Environment and Sustainability Day 2020 'Sustainable Futures for Cornwall', and 2019 ‘Sustainable Fashion – Catwalk to Global Cat-astrophe’
'Life at the Extremes' at Bluedot festival, Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, 2017 & 2018, and the UK Space Festival, 2017.
'Cobalt is Critical' at Science Uncovered, Natural History Museum, Tring, 2017
'Making Microbes Work for Us' public lectures, Manchester, 2016 & 2017
'Alienated Life' at Manchester Science Festival, Manchester, 2015 & 2016
'How to Build a Nuclear Repository' at Science Uncovered, Manchester Museum, Manchester, 2015
Conference organisation
Session on 'Minerals and Our Living World; Biogeochemical Cycles, Environmental Challenges and the Origin of Life', European Mineralogical Conference: emc2020, Krakow, 2021
'Chemistry for the Environment', Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021
‘Minerals in a Sustainable Future’, British Geological Survey, 2019
'Clay Minerals in the Natural and Built Environment: Formation, Chemistry & Applications’, Newcastle University, 2019
‘21st Century Chemistry: Disposing our Nuclear Legacy’, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019
‘The Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Contaminated Environments’, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018
Session on ‘The Geochemistry of Metal Deposits’ at the Goldschmidt Conference, Paris, 2017
Professional body memberships
Royal Society of Chemistry
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
