I am a UKRI Futures Leaders Fellow and Senior Research Fellow here at the MBA. My expertise lies in microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems. My current research focusses on how microplastics will interact with wider environmental stressors (multistressors; including chemical contamination and climate change) to affect marine ecosystems, now and into the future.
I began my research on microplastics in 2014 at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology where I studied abundance and ecotoxicity of microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial systems. After gaining my PhD from Leiden University (Netherlands), I moved to the National Oceanography Centre to investigate the flows of microplastics from rivers to the sea, and their interactions with estuarine and marine organisms. I started my fellowship at the MBA in 2025.
