About
Dr Katie Preece is a volcanologist and geologist. Her research is broadly focused on volcanology, volcanic petrology, and geochronology.
Katie completed a 4-year Undergraduate Masters (MGeosci.) degree in Geology with Biology at Keele University and a Masters in Volcanology at the Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université Blaise Pascal, Clemont-Ferrend (France). She undertook her PhD at the University of East Anglia (UEA), which used detailed field studies and petrological data to reveal the driving forces behind transitions in recent eruptive style at Merapi volcano, Indonesia. She then stayed at UEA for a postdoctoral position, reconstructing the eruptive history of Ascension Island using a combination of physical volcanology and Ar/Ar geochronology. She then held a postdoctoral position at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (University of Glasgow), where she combined Ar/Ar geochronology, geochemistry, and field studies to build a geochronological framework of volcanic eruptions in Armenia in order to inform archaeological investigations into hominin migration and evolution. Katie joined Swansea University in January 2019.