Rosalind Rickaby

Education Rickaby was educated at Berkhamsted School for Girls and Haileybury College. from the University’s Department of Earth Sciences in 1999, under the supervision of Harry Elderfield.

Career and research After her PhD, Rickaby went on to complete two years of post-doctoral research at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, working with Daniel P. Schrag. Rickaby began as a faculty member of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford following her postdoc at Harvard. Her research centers around paleoceanography and biogeochemical cycling in the oceans through deep time, with a focus on using fossil shells of marine micro-organisms as proxies to reconstruct past climate change.

Awards and honours

2008: Awarded the European Geosciences Union Philip Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Young Scientist 2012: Awarded the Gast lectureship for outstanding contributions to geochemistry 2016: Awarded the Wolfson Research Merit Award by the Royal Society from 2016–2021 2017: Awarded the Geological Society of London's Lyell Medal for contributions to soft rock studies 2022: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) 2023: Awarded the Science Innovation Award - Nicholas Shackleton Medal of the European Association of Geochemistry 2025: Awarded an OBE in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to biogeochemistry.