International Women's Day: Eleanor Green

Dr Eleanor Green is a Senior Lecturer in Computational Petrology in the school of Earth Sciences.

I model the thermodynamic properties of minerals and magmas, using information from thousands of experiments, as well as observations of real rocks and computer simulations. My models help us to understand how Earth evolves, as the various chemical elements separate from each other and move from one reservoir to another inside it. Along with collaborators from across Australia and the globe, I use the models to explore the processes that built the Earth, and are still taking place beneath our feet. My scientific training, starting at undergraduate level, seems like a great privilege to me. It's a special thing to have such insight into the depths of our planet, even while we worry about the impact we have had on its surface. STEMM in general is an anchor for me, a method of understanding that helps me keep my sense of perspective, that forces me to accept complexity, and that sets the standard for defining truth.