Outreach and Media

Public Outreach (selected)

• “New frontiers in volcanology and energy resources: The advent of large-scale magma experiments” at the Herdman symposium, Liverpool, UK (2019)
• Panel discussion on Materiality at Matter of Stuff art gallery, London, UK (2018)
• Royal Society Science Summer Exhibition. Exhibition on “Visible Science: bringing science to life via 4D synchrotron x-ray tomography” in London and Manchester (2016)
• Content editor for VolcanoWorld (2002 - 2004)
• Introduction to as Earth and life history for elementary and high school students (2000 - 2002)

Invited lectures (selected)

• >50 invited lectures were given at international and national meetings/ workshops and in departmental seminars, including:
• Annual Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU). Session: “The new generation of scientists” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFnCOBtCC4&t=1637s)
• Annual general meeting of the Academia Europaea (AE), ALL European Academies (ALLEA), Young Academy of Europe (YAE), Hungary. Session “Economy, Resources and Energy” (2017)
• Euro-Science Open Forum (ESOF) Meeting in Manchester, UK; ERC-organised session: “Deep Earth dynamics: What is happening beneath our feet” (2016)
• Young Academy of Europe, University of Oxford, UK (2016)

Media Coverage and Contributions (selected)

• Krafla Magma Testbed. AGU TV – WebsEdge Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf-yA_L8mZA (2021)
• Forget oil or water. In Iceland, well diggers seek to tap a volcano’s magma. Science, AAAS (2021)
• The Giant’s Causeway episode for Impossible Planet, Blizzard Road Production (2019)
• Volcanic ash particles under the microscope on European Commission News (https://cordis.europa.eu/news/rcn/130940/en?WT.mc_id=exp) based on: Hornby et al. “Phase partitioning during fragmentation revealed by QEMSCAN particle mineralogical analysis of volcanic ash.” Nature Scientific Reports 2019 (2019)
• Hot, warm or cold?: New insight into how Giant’s Causeway; University of Liverpool Press Release (https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/earth-ocean-and-ecological-sciences/news/articles/hot-warm-or-cold-new-insight-into-how-giants-causeway-was-formed) based on: Lamur et al., Nature Communications 2018 (2019)
• Volcano Power Could Be ‘Most Exciting Thing Since the Moon Landing,’ Says Researcher. Just don’t call it geothermal energy. Greentech Media (2017)
• Could British homes be powered by Icelandic volcano? The Guardian (2017)
• Geosciences Spotlight of the European Research Council (2012)
• “Hot tuff not so tough” Research highlights of “How tough is tuff in the event of fire” in Nature 484, 144. doi:10.1038/484144a. (2012)