"I came to university with a clear goal: to graduate from the best geology school in the country. I did that, and along the way studied a bit of physics, chemistry...and a string of foreign languages.
I'm now in the final six months of my PhD - though you wouldn't know it because I still have a long way to go. My research concerns the geological evolution of a 400 km2 area of the northern Chilean Andes mountains, and attempts to explain why that particular area contains so many large, rich, deposits of copper, molybdenum, and to a lesser extent silver and gold. That work has seen me make three trips to Chile over the last two years, polish my Spanish language skills, and climb more mountains above 4000 metres than I'd have ever thought possible."
