CV

Full CV

JRZondervan_CV_long.pdf

I have a background in field geology, geomorphology, geochronology (OSL) and environmental sciences and have a particular interest in leveraging emerging technologies to drive biological geoengineering solutions (biogeoengineering or terraforming).

I have previously worked across disciplines such as field geomorphology and spatial/topographic analysis as well as rock engineering, palaeoclimatology, neotectonics, geochemistry, geoarchaeology and science communication.

Employment/Education:

2023 - now Postdoc at University College London

2022 - now Academic Visitor at University of Oxford

2022 Postdoc at the University of Bristol

2021 - 2022 Postdoc at the University of Oxford (ROC-CO2 project)

2021 Postdoc at Durham University

2017 - 2021 Geology PhD candidate, University of Plymouth

2018 - 2019 Visiting PhD student at the Nordic Centre for Luminescence Research (NCLR) at DTU Risø

2013 - 2017 MSci (Hons) Geology, Imperial College London (First Class)

2016 - 2017 Undergraduate Mentor, Imperial College London

2016 - 2017 Teaching Assistant, Imperial College London

2016 Research intern, University of Amsterdam

2015 - 2016 Exchange student, The Australian National University (High Distinction)

AWARDS

FUNDING

BSG Early Career Researcher Grant | 6,000 GBP | to survey biocrusts | 2021

BSRG Steve Farrell Fund | 250 GBP | to attend the BSRG AGM | 2020

BSG Postgraduate Conference Grant | 500 GBP | to attend the EGU General Assembly in Vienna | 2020

QRA Quaternary Conference Fund | 750 GBP | to attend the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco | 2019

International Association of Sedimentologists Postgraduate Grant | 1,000 EUR | to extend my PhD lab work to do more experimental geochronology | 2018

British Society for Geomorphology Postgraduate Research Grant | 1,000 GBP | to extend my PhD field sampling campaigns - “Experimental luminescence dating of Quaternary river terraces, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco” | 2018

Quaternary Research Association New Research Workers Award | 1,000 GBP | to extend my PhD lab work to do more experimental geochronology | 2018

Geological Remote Sensing Group Student Award | 1,000 GBP | to extend my PhD remote sensing activities by carrying out field surveys | 2018

International Association of Sedimentologists Student Travel Grant | 450 EUR | to attend the 4th Meeting of the Working Group on Sediment Generation | 2018

HONOURS

British Sedimentological Research Group Award for Undergraduate Sedimentology | for my Imperial College thesis titled "Landscape response to active faulting, southern Gulf of Corinth, central Greece" | 2017

Best Poster | Imperial College MSci Posters 2017

Engineering Dean’s list | Imperial College | 2016

Burton & Garran Distinguished Scholar | 2016

AFFILIATIONS

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of London (FGS)

  • Postgraduate Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS)

  • Geology for Global Development (GfGD)

  • Association of British Science Writers (ABSW)

  • British Society for Geomorphology (BSG)

  • British Sedimentological Research Group (BSRG)

  • Geologists' Association (GA)

  • Quaternary Research Association (QRA)

  • International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)

  • Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG)

  • American Association of Petroleum Geoscientists (AAPG)

  • Nederlandse Geologische Vereniging (NGV)