 RSES is an international leader in its chosen research fields. Researchers at RSES work on a huge range of problems. Whether it's geophysics, the inside of the US core, all the way to space, to meteorites in the moon, or climate science, glaciers and oceans. And that diversity and richness of background is definitely one of the strengths and that's something that our students really benefit from. We don't do everything, but what we do do, we do extremely well and we focus on it, we give the resources to those areas to actually make world-leading developments. We're blessed with many resources, both in terms of the people and other researchers around us. There's just so many facilities, so if I have another question that I can't answer using the equipment here, then I know that, pretty much guaranteed, there'll be someone else in the building who can help me, who has the equipment and we can really start to answer questions that we didn't really expect we were even going to be asking. I think the greatest strength of the School of Earth Sciences here is definitely the people. On a day-to-day basis, you just get to work with a great variety of excellent researchers. It's a really good science and research community. It's a good student community that we have here as well. It's fun to discover new things. It's fun to design experiments and think about what might have happened on other planets or inside the Earth or in volcanoes and it's exciting every day. I just love science. I love working with other scientists, just the curiosity of being able to find out things that nobody's known before. The whole point of doing research is to enlighten the human race, more probably focused on enlightening our own students so we teach what we research and we try to give them the wonder of the natural universe through what we can actually deliver to them. From my experience going to other institutions around the world, I think it's as good as it gets anywhere here at RSCS. I think this is basically the place to be if you're interested in fundamental research and geochemistry and geophysics. We've consistently been ranked in the top 10 or 15 Earth Sciences departments worldwide. We want to sustain and enhance that position and to do that we are in a process of continual renewal so it's very important that we bring in high quality PhD students and early career post-doctoral researchers.