Dr Mike Cassidy

Dr Mike Cassidy MSc, PhD

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor

Contact details

Telephone: 0121 414 6167
Email: m.cassidy.1@bham.ac.uk
Twitter

Mike is a volcanologist and petrologist, his research focuses on the physio-chemical controls of volcanic explosivity, how to improve eruptive style forecasting and how we can best understand and minimise the impacts from large magnitude explosive eruptions.

Qualifications

2012 – PhD, University of Southampton
2008 – MSc Volcanology, University of Lancaster
2006 – BSc Geology, University of Bristol

Biography

Mike is principally a volcanologist, but his research and teaching interests are cross-disciplinary.聽

He is the programme lead for Global Environmental Change and Sustainability Degree.

He teaches on modules in the Geology degree programme as well as the Global Environmental Change and Sustainability programme.聽

Teaching

LI: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

Postgraduate supervision

Mike is interested in quantifying the impacts from large magnitude explosive eruptions, such as those on food, water and energy security.
He is also interested in questions relating to magma explosivity, magmatic volatiles and overpressure using a range of approaches such as machine learning, analytical petrology and petrological experiments in the apparatus built by Mike in Oxford.

Current students:
Kyra Cutler (Oxford)
Kerys Meredew (Birmingham)

Previously supervised PhD Students:
Annika Voight (Oxford)
Anna Brookfield (Oxford)
Amber Madden-Nadeau (Oxford)

Research

Mike is a volcanologist and petrologist, his research focuses on the understanding the controls of volcanic explosivity, linking petrology with volcano monitoring for eruption forecasting.

His research has taken him to volcanoes around the world including, Indonesia, Iceland, Chile, Mexico and the West Indies.

More recently, his research uses cross-disciplinary approach to understand and minimise the impacts from large magnitude explosive eruptions and other global catastrophic risks.

He is a strong advocate for increased efforts to monitor, prepare and mitigate the impacts from globally catastrophic eruptions.聽

Other activities

2021 – present: Editorial board for Scientists for Labour Lobbying for key scientific issues to the Labour Lords and MPs
2020- present: NERC Peer review college member
2018- 2020: Editorial Review Board Member for Frontiers in Earth Science (Petrology section)
2021- present: Editorial board of Geology journal for ITB Bandung, Indonesia.
2018 – 2020: Co-led the successful campaign for Oxford University to abolish their graduate application fee, removing a financial barrier to >35,000 applicants each year
2018 – present: Set up MOU with ITB Bandung University for long term collaboration with Indonesian scientists
2018 – 2021: Volcanic Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) Elected Committee Member, Social media and ECR representative, founded the VMSG postdoctoral keynote award, and helped organise virtual VMSG conference 2021.
2018 – 2020: Research staff representative at Earth Sciences Department Oxford

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Cutler, KS, Cassidy, M & Blundy, JD 2024, '', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 25, no. 4, e2023GC011357.

Wilson, N, Valler, V, Cassidy, M, Boyd, MJ, Mani, L & Br枚nnimann, S 2023, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 3649.

Brookfield, A, Cassidy, M, Weber, G, Popa, R-G, Bachmann, O & Stock, MJ 2023, '', Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol. 444, 107916.

Satow, C, Watt, S, Cassidy, M, Pyle, D & Deng, YN 2023, '', Geosciences, vol. 13, no. 4, 124.

Cassidy, M, Sandberg, A & Mani, L 2023, '', Earth's Future, vol. 11, no. 10, e2023EF003714.

Watt, S, Cassidy, M, Cutler, K, Madden-nadeau, A, Engwell, SL, Abdurrachman, M, Nurshal, MEM, Tappin, DR, Carey, S, Novellino, A, Hayer, C, Hunt, JE, Day, S, Grilli, ST, Kurniawan, IA & Kartadinata, N 2022, '', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 578, 117332.

Voigt, A, Cassidy, M, Castro, JM, Pyle, DM, Mather, TA, Helo, C, Abdurrachman, M & Kurniawan, IA 2022, '', Journal of Petrology, vol. 63, no. 8, egac066.

Cassidy, M, Iveson, AA, Humphreys, MCS, Mather, TA, Helo, C, Castro, JM, Ruprecht, P, Pyle, DM & Eimf 2022, '', American Mineralogist, vol. 107, no. 10, pp. 1825-1839.

Priyanto, WS, Hunt, JE, Hanif, M, Tappin, DR, Permana, H, Susilohadi, , Cassidy, M & Yulianto, E 2021, '', Frontiers in Earth Science, vol. 8, 577448.

Grilli, ST, Zhang, C, Kirby, JT, Grilli, AR, Tappin, DR, Watt, SFL, Hunt, JE, Novellino, A, Engwell, S, Nurshal, MEM, Abdurrachman, M, Cassidy, M, Madden-nadeau, AL & Day, S 2021, '', Marine Geology, vol. 440, 106566.

Hunt, JE, Tappin, DR, Watt, SFL, Susilohadi, S, Novellino, A, Ebmeier, SK, Cassidy, M, Engwell, SL, Grilli, ST, Hanif, M, Priyanto, WS, Clare, MA, Abdurrachman, M & Udrekh, U 2021, '', Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 2827.

Madden-nadeau, AL, Cassidy, M, Pyle, DM, Mather, TA, Watt, S, Engwell, SL, Abdurrachman, M, Nurshal, MEM, Tappin, DR & Ismail, T 2021, '', Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol. 411, 107176.

Novellino, A, Engwell, SL, Grebby, S, Day, S, Cassidy, M, Madden-nadeau, A, Watt, S, Pyle, D, Abdurrachman, M, Edo Marshal Nurshal, M, Tappin, DR, Andri Kurniawan, I & Hunt, J 2020, '', Applied Sciences, vol. 10, no. 2, 536.

Dobson, KJ, Allabar, A, Bretagne, E, Coumans, J, Cassidy, M, Cimarelli, C, Coats, R, Connolley, T, Courtois, L, Dingwell, DB, Di Genova, D, Fernando, B, Fife, JL, Fyfe, F, Gehne, S, Jones, T, Kendrick, JE, Kinvig, H, Kolzenburg, S, Lavall茅e, Y, Liu, E, Llewellin, EW, Madden-Nadeau, A, Madi, K, Marone, F, Morgan, C, Oppenheimer, J, Ploszajski, A, Reid, G, Schauroth, J, Schlep眉tz, CM, Sellick, C, Vasseur, J, von Aulock, FW, Wadsworth, FB, Wiesmaier, S & Wanelik, K 2020, '', Frontiers in Earth Science, vol. 8, 287.

Comment/debate

Cassidy, M & Mani, L 2022, '', Nature, vol. 608, no. 7923, pp. 469-471.