Members

  • Prof Janine Kavanagh

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

  • Dr Caitlin Chalk

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

  • Dr Stefano Urbani

    Postdoctoral research associate investigating magma intrusion processes in exposed plumbing systems. [he/him]

  • Amanda Valentine-Baars

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

  • Kate Williams

    PhD student and graduate teaching assistant researching how magma flows within mafic sills. [she/her]

  • Tegan Havard

    PhD student researching how magma interacts in the plumbing network of basaltic fissures. [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]

Alumni

  • Katie Gilchrist

    University of Liverpool MESci Geology student working on mixing and mingling in magma chambers in 2022/23. [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. [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. [he/him]