Personal Details:

Education and Qualifications:

·       1988 BSc. Hons. Physics and Astronomy, UCL

·       1989 PGCE Institute of Education, London

·       1993 PhD in Geophysics, UCL

Positions held:

·       1993-1996 NERC PDRA

·       1996-1999 UCL Research Fellow

·       1999- 2008 Royal Society University Research Fellowship

·       2004- 2009 Reader in Mineral Physics

·       2009- Professor of Mineral Physics

Research Funding:

·       NERC grant GR9/04220 of £27,309 (1999-2001) PI

·       Royal Society URF £581,286 (1999-2008) PI

·       NERC grant NER/O/S/2001/01260 DESMOND consortium £805,325.00 - UCL £253,069 (2002-2005)

·       PPARC grant PP/C501992/1of £238,512 (2005-2008) PI - Icy moons

·       NERC grant NE/C519662/1 of £163,562 (2005-2008) PI - Light elements in the Earth's core

·       NERC grant NE/H003541/1 of £806,917  (2010-2013) PI  - Effect of Ni on the Earth's core

·       NERC grant NE/J009520/1 of £668,861  (2012-2015) Co-I (PI Dobson)  - PPv analogues

·       STFC consolidated grant of £708,753 (2013-2016) Co-I (PI Wood) - The structure and dynamics of small planets and moons

·       Ongoing competitively won NERC facility time (ISIS neutron source)

PhD students:

·       Paula Martin - the Martian interior (2002)
·       Dominic Fortes - ammonium hydrates to high pressure (2004)
·       Emily Baldwin - lunar crustal evolution using the AUTODYN hydrodynamics code and D-CIXS data on SMART-1 (2008)
·       Helen Brand - Thermal evolution of the Jovian Moons (2009)
·       Alex Lindsay-Scott – Structures and properties of post-perovskite analogue phases (2011)
·       Lizzie Wann - iron alloys
·       Amy Edgington - interior of mercury

Postdocs:

·       Peter Grindrod
·       Alex Cote
·       Benjami Martorell Masip
·       Oliver Lord

Department of Earth Sciences - UCL - Gower Street - London - WC1E 6BT

l.vocadlo@ucl.ac.uk