Carrie Soderman

I'm interested in many aspects of igneous geochemistry and petrology, particularly understanding magmatic 'critical metal' enrichment. While my PhD focused on heavy stable isotope tracers of mantle heterogeneity, combining thermodynamic modelling with the collection of isotope data from ocean island basalts, I now use my geochemical background to understand critical metal behaviour in magmatic systems. I combine fieldwork, petrology, thermodynamic and geochemical modelling to understand the processes that control the behaviour of important trace elements in igneous systems, with particular interest in REEs in alkaline-silicate complexes (ongoing case studies in south Greenland and Namibia), and Li and HFSEs in granites. 

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher and Fellow at Selwyn College, having held a Henslow Research Fellowship at Selwyn from 2022–2025, and am the postgraduate representative on the UK's Mineral Deposits Studies Group committee. I completed my PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2022, following my BA (Natural Sciences) and MSci (Earth Sciences).

Postgraduate representative, Mineral Deposits Studies Group (2025– )

Co-organiser of Department Seminars (2025–2026)