I am the laboratory scientist under InterCat, supporting the experimental laboratory activities of the center at Aarhus University.

I have over 15 years’ experience in the field of laboratory astrophysics, completing a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Martin McCoustra at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in 2009. Prior to this, I obtained an MSci degree in Chemistry and Molecular Physics from the University of Nottingham. My PhD research focussed on the thermal and non-thermal desorption of small aromatic species from interstellar dust grain mimics based on amorphous silicates.

In 2009 I took up a postdoctoral research associate position at Aarhus University under the supervision of Prof. Liv Hornekær where I performed measurements demonstrating the catalytic role played by PAH molecules in H₂ formation under interstellar conditions. In 2013 I moved to the dynamics at surfaces group of Prof. Helmut Zacharias Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in Germany. During my time in the group I performed low temperature thermal desorption measurements probing, for the first time, the desorption of small molecules from crystalline interstellar silicates. I also headed a project at the free-electron laser "FLASH" at DESY in Hamburg demonstrating the soft x-ray induced desorption of carbonaceous molecules from graphite, revealing the ejection of carbon clusters as well as a variety of product ions.

In 2018 I returned to Aarhus to work on the GRANN (Graphene Coated Nanoparticles and Nanograins) project headed by Liv Hornekær. In July 2020 I took up my present position as the InterCat Laboratory Scientist.