She specializes in Earth and planetary mineralogy, studying mineral structure and cation ordering, and as functions of pressure, temperature and composition. She also measures/calibrates strain and strain-related mosaicity in minerals which have undergone tectonic deformation or have been shocked by meteorite impact. She studies minerals from the Earth’s mantle and a variety of meteorites (e.g., chondrites, achondrites, martians), as well as synthetic analogues. Minerals of interest include spinel-group minerals, olivine, clinopyroxene, kimberlite indicator minerals (e.g., garnet), and diamond. She collaborates to study natural glasses, clay minerals and natural zeolites.