Dr. Jon Telling

• Principal Investigator (Senior lecturer in geochemistry / geomicrobiology) Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Newcastle University
• Email: jon.telling@newcastle.ac.uk
• Responsible for leading and overall management of CERBERUS project.

ORCiD: 0000-0002-8180-0979

After graduating as a geologist (Durham University), I completed an M.Sc. in Geochemistry (University of Leeds) followed by a Ph.D. on the geomicrobiology of metal deposits in the deep ocean (University of Bristol). This was followed by a postdoctoral position at the University of Toronto (affiliated to the NASA Astrobiology Initiative) examining sources of gases in ancient fluids trapped within Canadian Precambrian Shield rocks. I then returned to the UK to join the Bristol Glaciology Centre (University of Bristol), where I carried out research in Greenland, Antarctica, and Svalbard on how life on and below glaciers and ice sheets impact local and regional biogeochemical cycles. I started my current position as Lecturer in Geochemistry/Geomicrobiology at Newcastle University in August 2016, where I have started a research group focused on terrestrial and extraterrestrial (bio)geochemical cycling.