James Bryson

James’ research focuses on using meteorites and ancient terrestrial samples to study the evolution of the early solar system and the first planetary bodies. His previous research has involved investigating different pathways of planetary accretion and differentiation as well as the mechanism by which magnetic fields were generated in different planetary bodies and using this to understand their longterm thermochemical evolution. Recently, his work has involved using the magnetism recorded by meteorites to place the formation locations of their parent bodies throughout the solar system and reconciling the isotopic signatures of different meteorites to better understand the very earliest stages of solid formation in the solar system. James did his undergraduate and PhD at the University of Cambridge before moving to MIT to conduct a NASA-funded post doc. Before his position at Oxford, James was a junior research fellow at St. John’s College, Cambridge.