PhD Vanderbilt University (Completed May 2012)
MSc University of London (England)
BSc University of London, First Class (England)

Vanderbilt University

Ph.D: Environmental Engineering; Environmental Science Option

Advisor: Dr John C. Ayers 

Thesis Title: 

Experimental and field based geochemical investigations into the behavior of zircon in hydrothermal and deep tectonic environments associated with mountain building and crustal-evolution events.

Research Areas:
Metamorphic chemical geodynamics:
Experimental investigations into Ultra-High-Pressure Metamorphism, Metamorphic fluids, and Subduction Zone processes.
Geodynamics, High/Ultra-High Pressure metamorphism, and crustal evolution of Central-East China (Dabie-Sulu). 
Mineral thermodynamics and the behaviour of minerals and fluids in geochemical systems:The growth and partitioning behaviour of minerals in HP/UHP geochemical systems.Tracing mineral-fluid reactions in the deep crust using zircon. 
Volcanic and mantle processes:  
Rift Volcanism, Basalt formation, and Mantle Processes in Western United States.
Production of Highly evolved volcanic magmas: Plutonic and Volcanic perspectives.

Research interests:
Fluid-melt-mineral reactions during formation of oceanic/oceanic-arc crust.
Textural, elemental, and radiogenic isotope modeling of crustal formation and evolution
Ore metal/mineral genesis associated with crustal formation.
Metamorphic recycling of the crust and formation of ore bodies.
Exploring and evaluating ore bodies using geochemical, geochronological and petrologic modeling.
Thermodynamics of hydrothermal-melt-mineral interactions during formation and evolution of the lower 
crust.Tracing fluid-rock thermodynamic reactions during continental and oceanic subduction.