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Dr Ashley Martin

Assistant Professor

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

I trained as a chemist at the University of York and wrote my doctoral thesis in Australia at the University of Wollongong. Following a brief spell working in industry as an Environmental Consultant in Sydney, Australia, I spent my postdoctoral years in Germany at the Leibniz University Hannover.

Ashley Martin

I am an Isotope Geochemist primarily interested in how Earth became and has remained (mostly) habitatable for the past 3.5 billion years. I primarily use uranium and vanadium isotopes as novel proxies for tracing past changes in marine oxygenation levels and nitrogen isotopes to understand past changes in biological productivity.

  • PhD July 19 2017
  • Chemistry July 01 2011

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