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Dr. Claire Nichols is an Associate Professor of the Geology of Planetary Processes at the University of Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences and a Tutorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall. She specializes in using magnetism to unravel Earth's and planetary formation histories, with a focus on early solar system dynamics and planetary habitability.
- Education: MSci and PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Cambridge
- Previous Positions: Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, various Oxford tutorial roles
Her research combines synchrotron and electron microscopy with fieldwork and rock magnetism to study ancient terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials. Recent work explores subduction zone magnetism, iron formations as paleomagnetic records, and lunar dynamo evolution.
Her publications (2015–2025) span high-impact journals like Nature Astronomy, Science Advances, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters, with keywords including planetary geology, paleomagnetism, and subduction dynamics. Current projects address banded iron formations, lunar secular variation, and Martian lacustrine analogues.
- Scientific Awards: Royal Society grants (2022–2023), National Geographic Explorer (2018), Mineralogical Society Distinguished Lecturer (2023)
- Field Experience: Greenland, California, South Africa, Taiwan
- Labs: Synchrotron facilities at BESSY II, ALS, and ESRF
