Juliet Biggs - Curriculum Vitae#

KEY RESEARCH GRANTS (*Indicates PI)

• ERC Consolidator Grant; MAST Imaging Magmatic Systems 2022-2028 (€2M).
  
• NERC NC; Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET). Investigator 2011-2019; Deputy Director 2019-2024; Co-Director 2024 (£500k per year)
  
• UKRI Digital Environment; Dynamic Ground Motion Map of the UK. PI. 2019-2020. (£300k)
  
• NERC Innovation; Making Satellite Volcano Deformation Accessible. PI 2019-2021. (£150k)
  
• ESA Harmony Mission Science Study; Phase-0 2019-2021 & Phase A 2021-2023. (£35k)
  
• GCRF-EPSRC; PREPARE Seismic Resilience Engineering in East Africa. Total £1.36M; (£480k).
  
• World Bank; Feasibility of Parametric Insurance for Volcanoes, led by Willis Towers Watson (£350k)
  
• NERC Large Grant; Rift Volcanism: Past, Present and Future. Joint-PI. 2014-2019. (£3.7M)

POSTGRADUATE ADVISING

I have supervised 24 PhD students (16 completed) and 27 Masters (25 completed)

ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP

Leadership Roles

• COMET Co-Director (2024-; 0.2 FTE), UK Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquake, Volcanoes & Tectonics
  
• Associate Director, Cabot Institute for the Environment (2021 - 2024)
  
• COMET Deputy Director (2019-2024; unfunded); equivalent to a committee role in a learned society
  
• Impact Director, School of Earth Sciences (2017 - 2021)
  
• USGS Powell Centre on ‘Optimizing satellite resources for volcanic hazards’ (2017 - 2019)
  
• Scientific Advisory Committee for the ESA Earth Explorer Mission ‘Harmony’ (2018 - present)
  
• NERC Geophysics and Geodesy Facility Steering Committee (2014 - 2018)
  
• Committee for Earth Observation Satellite (CEOS) Working Group on Disasters (2013 - present)

Review Panels: Royal Society URF Panel (2023 & 2025), Research Council of Norway Evaluation of Natural Sciences (2022-2023), NERC IRF Panel (2021), NERC Standard Grant Panel (2020), HCERES Evaluation of Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTerre), France (2019), Mission Review Panels for European Space Agency (2018) and NASA (2018), NERC Geophysics and Geodesy Facility (2014-2018)

Editorships: Associate Editor for Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth (2017-2021); Associate Editor for Frontiers in Volcanology (2014-2017); Editor of G-cubed special issue on ‘Magmatic and volcanic processes in continental rifts’ (2018-2019); Editor of Geological Society Special Publication (2013)

Examples of Meeting Organisation

• COMET Annual Meeting (2024)
  
• RAS Discussion Meeting on ‘Tectonics, Magmatism and GeoResources of the East African Rift’ (2024)
  
• Organising Committee for ‘Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group’ Meeting (2024)
  
• Scientific Committee for European Space Agency ‘Fringe’ Conference (2021, 2023)
  

Recent Invited Talks (I have not travelled internationally since 2021 because of caring responsibilities)

• German Geophysical Association, Plenary Talk at Annual Assembly (2021, online)
  
• GSA, 2020 Volcanism and Tectonics along Rifts and Volcanic Arcs (2020, online)
  
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, IGARRS Conference (2019)
  
• MDIS France Mesure de la Déformation par Imagerie Satellitaire (2019)
  

Recent Seminars/Webinars: Univ, of Leeds (2022), Rifts and Rifted Margins Webinar (2020), UCL (2019), Newcastle Univ. (2019), COMET Webinar (2018), USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (2018).