Dr Rebecca Bell, Senior Lecturer, Department of Earth Science & Engineering
“My research involves investigating how continents rip apart to form new oceans, and what controls the size and style of earthquakes at subduction zones.”
My road to Imperial started with a childhood interest in picking up pebbles on the beach and making plaster cast fossils with my dad. At school I enjoyed maths, physics and chemistry, but did not enjoy any of them enough on their own to commit to doing them at university!
Fortunately, one day I sat in my school’s library and discovered a subject called Earth Science in a university prospectus. I had never heard of it before, but it fit all of my interests perfectly, and I have never looked back. (more…)