Our Guest rockstar

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Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Monash University.

Andy is a petrologist and geochemist whose research covers a diverse range of geoscience subdisciplines. He completed a PhD in 2002 at ANU, then an Alberta Ingenuity Fellowship at the University of Calgary in Canada, before moving to a Monash Research Fellowship and then a tenured position at Monash U. in 2010. He won the Waldemar Lingren award in 2008 and the Silver Medal in 2021 from the Society of Economic Geologists. Andy enjoys applying the principles of metamorphic petrology to building our understanding of economic geology, global geochemical cycles, the evolution of Mars and the early Solar System.