Nicci Potts

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Nicci Potts

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

I am a PhD candidate at the Open University, UK and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. My work focuses on the volatile budget of the lunar interior. I use the mineral apatite, in lunar basalts, to measure Cl isotopic signatures and abundances using the NanoSIMS 50L at the Open University. In Amsterdam I perform high temperature/pressure experiments to obtain partition coefficients of volatiles into apatite, under lunar conditions. These partition coefficients are then used to back calculate quantities of water in the magmatic source regions of lunar basalts.

I gained my BSc Geological Sciences and MSc Geochemistry from the University of Leeds, UK.

I previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Cohen Geochemistry Research Group.

  • Work
    • The Open University
  • Education
    • University of Leeds