Dr. Sarah Alvarez (née O’Dea) was awarded a PhD by the University of Southampton after successfully completing her studies at the School of Ocean and Earth Science. Her post-doctoral research was first based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, and then at the University of Bristol, where she was part of a team of scientists funded by the European Research Council to investigate past links in the ocean’s environment and ecology (PALEOGENIE, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/111603/factsheet/en).
Sarah is a part-time lecturer for MSc in Marine Science and Climate Change, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University College, London and the Micropalaeontological Society Nannofossil Group Chair.