Hugo Olierook is the Deputy Director of the Curtin Frontier Institute for Geoscience Solutions, as well as a Senior Research Fellow and DECRA Fellow at the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Curtin University. His primary focus is unravelling the controls on past environmental crisis through studying the tempo of volatile gas emissions from supervolcanic eruptions in the last 500 million years. Hugo also aids the mining and mineral exploration industry through bespoke geochronology and geochemistry projects, and helps link industry partners to researchers at Curtin. Hugo is also passionate about teaching, outreach to school-aged students and less-reached groups, and geoscience communication. Hugo enjoys spending time with his family, playing and watching sports, board games and—naturally—making epic advancements in science.