Personal Statement
Andy Biggin is an Earth scientist who leads one of the longest running palaeomagnetic laboratories in the world and the DEEP research team based within it. He obtained his PhD in palaeomagnetism in 2001 and subsequently worked in labs in UNAM (Mexico), Montpellier (France) and Utrecht (The Netherlands) before obtaining a NERC Advanced Fellowship to work at the University of Liverpool in 2009. On completion of this in 2014, he was appointed as lecturer in geophysics and became a full professor in 2016, teaching across all years of Liverpool's Earth Science and Physics programmes. He has led projects in the Geomagnetism Laboratory totalling several million pound, applying state-of-the-art techniques to study Earth's magnetic field and apply this to inform on the dynamics and evolution of our planet's interior through much of its multi-billion year history.