Meet Helen!

Helen is a member of the PaleoMIX team at the University of York. She is the mass spectrometry instrument technician in BioArCh. She holds a Bachelor’s in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Organic Geochemistry from the University of Bristol where she worked with Prof. James Maxwell (FRS) on phytoplankton pigment geochemistry. Helen went to York to take up the post of Experimental Officer working with Oliver Craig and specializing in GC-MS of lipid residues in archaeological materials and GC-c-IRMS analysis of lipids and amino acids.