 Christine Lane was educated at Cardiff University where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology.She then went on to earn a MSc in Quaternary Science from Royal Holloway, University of London.Following her masters, she moved to Oxford to help establish the Cryptotephra Laboratory at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art (RLAHA), University of Oxford, part of the Royal Holloway and Oxford Tephrochronology Research group (RHOXTOR).