My name is Kasia, and I am a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, working in the Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

A mathematician by training, I did my PhD in Theoretical Geophysics working with Jerome Neufeld and Duncan Hewitt, then from 2022-24 was a SoF Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer at Dartmouth College, hosted by Colin Meyer, working between the School of Engineering and the Department of Earth Sciences.

I’m interested in the controls on ice flow speed in Antarctica and Greenland, and in applying ideas from Mathematics and Fluid Dynamics to describing subglacial processes. I work on the flow of water and sediments underneath ice, and their interaction with ice flow. My PhD focussed on the effect of tides on ice streams and I remain interested in ice flexure over tidal timescales, particularly at the grounding line (the junction between grounded and floating ice).

I’m always interested in new ways that maths can help explain observations, and predict the sensitivity of ice sheets to the changing climate. More than anything, I love the range of perspectives in glaciology from modellers to field scientists and I’m always happy to discuss my work or think about yours!