I am a Cape Town–based Scientist and Curator of Geology and Invertebrate Palaeontology at the Iziko South African Museum, as well as an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Cape Town. My career began at the Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), where I worked as a geologist for eight years before moving to Iziko Museum as Curator of Karoo Palaeontology—a position I held for another eight years, collaborating widely on various research topics focused mainly on the Permian and Early Triassic. My curiosity then shifted toward older rocks, and I made a lateral move to my current position at Iziko. These days, my research focuses on glacial sedimentology, mudrocks, and the Early and Late Palaeozoic ice ages in South Africa. I am especially interested in the sedimentology of the Middle Ordovician to Early Silurian Table Mountain Group (Cape Supergroup), and in the fossils and palaeoecology of the Soom Shale and associated units.