Some of the research topics currently being investigated by the Nine Circles group are listed below. For details on each members individual interests see the group page.

• Asteroid sample return - OSIRIS-Rex


• Development of combined LIBS and LA-ICP-MS for the study of extraterrestrial materials


• Extraterrestrial impacts and their effects on megafauna populations


• Influence of extraterrestrial impacts on the development of human civilization


• Formation and alteration of the CR chondrites


• Sulphide mineralogy and partial melting experiments of R chondrites


• Low-temperature sulphides in CI chondrites and stardust: Implications for aqueous alteration on comets and large scale mixing in the solar nebula


• The origin of compound and deformed chondrules


• Trace elements in chondritic meteorites and sulfides


• Characterisation and analysis of chondrites


• Phyllosilicate formation in the early Solar System


• Sulfur chemistry in a water-depleted Solar Nebula