Members

  • Prof Janine Kavanagh

    MAGMA Lab founder and research group lead, Chair of Volcanology and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. [she/her]

  • Dr Kate Williams

    Visiting postdoctoral researcher from Leeds University studying forced folds above sills using analogue and numerical models (2025-). [she/her]

  • Amanda Valentine-Baars

    Research technician for the MAGMA Lab. [she/her]

  • Dawid Rybak

    PhD student reconciling the interface dynamics of physical and chemical fluid-fractures. [he/him]

  • Jade Hrintchuk

    PhD student studying the plumbing systems of volcanic fissure eruptions. [she/her]

  • Ash Harden

    Summer research intern (2025) developing a magma intrusions database. [they/them]

Alumni

  • Dr Tegan Havard

    PhD researcher from 2020-2025: studying how magma interacts in the plumbing network of basaltic fissures. Now a postdoctoral researcher at Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences. [she/her]

  • Dr Caitlin Chalk

    Postdoctoral researcher from 2020-2025 studying magma transport by combining numerical and experimental models. [she/her]

  • Dr Stefano Urbani

    Postdoctoral research associate in 2022-2024 investigating magma intrusion processes in exposed plumbing systems. Now a Researcher at the Geological Survey of Italy [he/him]

  • Dr Stanley Yip

    Visiting postdoctoral researcher from Leeds University in 2024 studying volcano deformation models. [he/him]

  • Katie Gilchrist

    University of Liverpool MESci Geology student working on mixing and mingling in magma chambers in 2022/23. Now a PhD student at the University of Auckland [she/her]

  • Dr Matías Clunes

    Visiting PhD researcher from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 2022: researching the influence of crustal heterogeneities on magma propagation. [he/him]

  • Zak Derler

    Research technician for the MAGMA Lab from 2021-2022. [he/him]

  • Dr Khaled Rahimi

    Visiting PhD researcher from SUNY Buffalo in 2019: simulated dyke propagation in the presence of unloading topography such as a graben. [he/him]

  • Dr Ayleen Gaete Rojas

    Visiting PhD researcher from GFZ Potsdam in 2017: studied the dynamic properties of magmatic intrusions at calderas. [she/her]

  • Dr Suraya Hilmi Hazim

    PhD researcher from 2014 to 2020: studied the propagation of magma through Earth’s crust using gelatine and laser imaging. Now a Lecturer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia [she/her]

  • Elliot Wood

    PhD researcher from 2014 to 2020: explored damage zones around dykes using microscopy and gelatine experiments. [he/him]

  • Dr Simon Martin

    Part-time PhD researcher from 2013 to 2020: investigated variations in syn- and post-emplacement processes occurring within sheet intrusions. Now a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen [he/him]