I'm currently Head of Science at Fulneck School. I also started wearing the hat of Assistant Principal High Achievers in that school. My aim is to interest, motivate, engage all students and especially girls to think scientifically, and give them skills to navigate their future: data analysis, attention to details, aspiration to leave their world a better place by engaging with engineering, remaining creative in a syllabus that thwart this intrinsic ability of kids of inventivness and creativity.

I was pushed by my parents into education: "you can never be too educated!". I wanted to be an astronaut (but I was pathetic on a roller coaster). So I selected to have my feet on Earth and study geology. I felt the Earth breathing when sat on top of Stromboli volcano and watched the natural fireworks, nights after nights, whislt helping to deploy seismic broadband stations. Fell in love!

I completed a master in Volcanology and magmatology then a PhD , working on Pyroclastic flow deposit and the Physics of it. I studied worldwide deposits, but experienced the eruption of the British active volcano of Montserrat that destroyed the life of so many.

With a post doc in Fluid dynamics, I was hoping to carry on research for a while. But with the arrival of our daughter, I felt a change of career was necessary and went into teaching science, especially Physics.

So I have been teaching Physics for 12 years, with a year break to go and explore the education system of New Zealand, and become the leader of a project on seismology in school in New Zealand.

Back in the UK, I was a partner in an Erasmus + project, where European students were encouraged to meet and share science. I am the Leeds Harrogate partnership coordinator for Ogden trust for the last 4 years, a Scientix ambassador for 3 years. I was also an Ogden trust fellowship for a year, and went arount local primary schools to propagate the "good word" in seismology and volcanoes, ie propagate the love for science. I was awarded the 2020 Sir Patric Moore Medal for Education by the Royal Astronomical Society.