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Rosalind (Ros) E.M. Rickaby is a Professor of Biogeochemistry at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford and a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College.

Education
Rickaby received her M.A. in Natural Sciences from Magdalene College, University of Cambridge in 1995 and her Ph.D. from the University’s Department of Earth Sciences in 1999, under the supervision of Harry Elderfield. She spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University working with with Dan Schrag.

Career and research
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. Her research group use a variety of geochemical methods, including the analysis of trace element and isotopic ratios, to understand the biochemical behavior of paleoproxies, such as coccolithophores. Rickaby has been awarded the Wolfson Research Merit Award by the Royal Society from 2016-2021. She is also an author of the book "Evolution’s Destiny: Co-evolving Chemistry of the Environment and Life" along with Bob Williams.

Awards and honours

 * 2008: Awarded the European Geosciences Union Philip Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Young Scientist.
 * 2009: Awarded the University of Miami's 36th Rosenstiel Award.
 * 2010: Awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal for significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by an outstanding young scientist.
 * 2012: Awarded the Gast lectureship for outstanding contributions to geochemistry.
 * 2017: Awarded the Geological Society of London's Lyell Medal for contributions to soft rock studies in 2017.