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Ros Rickaby is a marine biogeochemist who has interrogated Earth’s history of life and climate from signals of adaptation within genes, evolving enzyme affinities, and their relic isotopic footprints to inform predictions of the future marine biosphere. She is currently Chair of Geology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, having been Professor of Biogeochemistry since 2010, on the dark side (of blue!), as well as mum to two boys. She received her PhD with Harry Elderfield from Cambridge University in 1995 and studied at Harvard for her post-doc with Dan Schrag before being appointed to a Lectureship in Oxford in 2002. Ros has authored over 130 papers and co-authored a book “Evolution’s Destiny: Co-evolving chemistry of the environment and life”. Ros has won 20 years of continuous ERC funding, and been recognised by prestigious medals from the European Geosciences and American Geophysical Union, and Geological Society of London. She held a Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society and was just appointed FRS in 2022.
