Chris Holdsworth

Institution: University of Edinburgh

Theme: Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycles: Sustaining Life

Theme: Earth System Modelling & AI Forum

Theme: Transformations in Society and Environmental Policy

Department / group: School of Geosciences

Email: C.M.Holdsworth-1@sms.ed.ac.uk

Institution URL: https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences

Personal URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmholdsworth/

Google Scholar URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UTggLkUAAAAJ&hl=en

Research interests:

Carbon capture and storage
Geothermal energy
Steel slag
Stable isotope geochemistry
Clumped isotope geochemistry

Career history:

PhD Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, 2019-2023
MSc by research Earth Science, University of Glasgow, 2017-2019
First class BSc Earth Science (with honours), University of Glasgow, 2013-2017

Active research projects:

Tracking industrial scale CO2 mineralisation at the CarbFix2 site, Iceland using a combination of geochemical tracing and reservoir modelling

Recent publications:

Clumped-isotope palaeothermometry and LA-ICP-MS U–Pb dating of lava-pile hydrothermal calcite veins: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00410-019-1599-x