Natalie Farrell is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow based in the Rock Deformation Laboratory at the University of Manchester, a laboratory with over 50 years’ experience of experimental rock deformation. Natalie’s research measures and models the effects of faulting on the physical and microstructural properties of rocks to address both fundamental and applied geoscience problems. This has included integrating data collected from experimental, geochemical and microscopic analysis into physical models to predict how fluids move around fault zones and how human-induced changes in pore fluid pressure from injection activities (e.g., geothermal exploration, CO₂ storage) could trigger earthquakes.