Where are you from?
I’m from North Manchester
Where did you get your first degree and in what subject?
I did my MChem in Chemistry with Industrial Experience here at the University of Manchester. I spent my third year working as a chemist in an R&D department of Lubrizol Ltd, and then finished my Masters in fourth year by working on an organic chemistry project.
What are you researching in your PhD?
The title of my project is: Radionuclide uptake during iron floc formation: application to the Enhanced Actinide Removal Plant (EARP) Process.
I’m looking into the mechanism for how the precipitation of iron (oxyhydr) oxide flocs can remove various radionuclides from aqueous solution. Knowing how the radionuclides are sorbed to the iron is important because it allows you to see how different conditions could affect the sorption mechanism and hinder (or help) the uptake of radionuclides. This project is specifically aimed at the EARP procedure which processes some liquid waste streams at Sellafield.
What do you like doing when you are not doing ground-breaking research in the Manchester Geomicro group?
I love rock climbing (though I’m not very good) and eating cake
If you had a favourite mineral what would it be and why?
Before I started this project I never imagined I would have a favourite mineral … ask me again in a year!
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