We focus on how the geological evolution of Earth has shaped the emergence and diversification of Life and how modern environmental changes affect marine and terrestrial biodiversity.

We research past and present diverse habitable environments on Earth, describe and quantify the life they harboured in the past and contain today.

Reaching back through Earth’s billions of years of history, we seek to unravel the remarkable biogeochemical interactions that promoted the evolution of simple organisms into complex animal and plant life, as well as their current adaptations to our rapidly changing world.

Our research spans a wide range of major questions aiming to establish the conditions for Earth’s sustained habitability and biodiversity over geological time scales, as well as future sustainability.

These include, but are not limited to:

• the environmental impact of humans over the Anthropocene
• the future sustainability of ecosystems and resilience of biodiversity
• the evolution of terrestrial plant systems
• the causes and consequence of extreme Snowball Earth climates
• how continent emergence, weathering, volcanism and atmosphere composition influence marine chemistry, terrestrial chemistry, and biodiversity.