Funding

Consolidator Grant, European Research Council, ref. 772255

Magma-assisted tectonics of continental rifts and mid-ocean ridges (RIFT-O-MAT)
Oct 2018 - August 2025, €2M to support 2 PDRAs and 1 PhD student
 

 

Leverhulme Trust Research Grant 
Tidally forced porous flows in planetary bodies

Sept 2022 - August 2025, £214k with Co-Is Ian Hewitt and Bert Vermeersen

 

Oxford Advanced Research Computing/Oxford E-Research Centre

MAGMOx: Computational Models of Magma Dynamics
Ongoing cluster-computing provision to the FoaLab group

 

 

Sloan Foundation Grant
Deep Carbon Observatory modelling and vizualization forum II
Apr 2018 - Dec 2020, $750k with PI Louise Kellogg, UC Davis.
 

 

NERC Grant NE/R000026/1

Two-phase dynamics of temperate ice
May 2017 - April 2019, £240k with Prof. Ian Hewitt (Mathematics, Oxford). Linked with NSF PIs Neal Iverson (Iowa  State) and Lucas Zoet (University of Wisconsin)

 

 

Consortium grant NE/M000427/1, Natural Environment Research Council
Mantle volatiles: processes, reservoirs and fluxes
Sept 2014 - Dec 2019, £1.38M with ~20 co-investigators

 

 

Sloan Foundation Grant
Deep Carbon Observatory modelling and vizualization forum
Nov 2015 - Nov 2017, $700k with PI Louise Kellogg and co-I Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, UC Davis

 

 

International Exchanges Grant, The Royal Society
Understanding sea-ice growth and brine rejection using adaptive-mesh simulations
March 2015 - March 2017, £11890 with Prof. A. Wells (AOPP/Oxford) and Dr. D. Martin (LBNL, USA)

 

 

Starter grant, European Research Council, ref. 279925
Ice Ages, Sea Level, and Magmatism: Coupled Oscillations (ISMAGiC)
Jan 2012 - Dec 2016, €1.35M to support 2 PDRAs and 1 PhD student

 

 

Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust
Jan 2013 - Dec 2015, £70,000 to support the group's research

 

 

Standard Grant NE/I026995/1, UK Natural Environment Research Council
Computational tools for magma dynamics of subduction zones: finite element models and efficient solvers
Feb 2012 - Dec 2014, £336,712 to support 1 PDRA for 3 years

 

 

Research Councils UK Academic Fellowship
Oct 2007 - Sept 2012, £125,000 as salary support for R. Katz

 

 

 
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
Oxford Laboratory for Geophysical Flows
Jun - Jul 2011, £21,246 for equipment and materials

 

 

Travel Grant, The Royal Society
Material anisotropy in coupled magma/mantle dynamics: numerical simulations and analogue experiments
Sept - Oct 2011, £4,000 to support the visit of Prof. Y. Takei, ERI Tokyo
 

 

New Investigator Grant, Natural Environment Research Council
Coupled models of magma/mantle dynamics: melt transport at mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones
Aug 2009 - July 2011, £55,000 for research & travel (NE/H00081X/1)

 

 

National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship Program
To Katz for postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge
Sep 2006 - Aug 2008, NSF Award 0602101

 

 

Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

To Katz for graduate study at Columbia University / LDEO
Sep 2001 - Aug 2005