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Academic Staff
Name
Title
Professor Mark Allen
Head of Department, Chair of the Board of Studies, Professor
Professor James Baldini
Professor
Dr Jotis Baronas
Assistant Professor
Dr Richard James Brown
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Admissions Director
Professor Kevin Burton
Professor of Geochemistry
Professor Nicola De-Paola
Professor of Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics
Professor Jon Gluyas
Orsted/Ikon Chair in Geoenergy, Carbon Capture & Storage
Professor Chris Greenwell
Professor of Geochemistry
Professor Darren R. Grocke
Professor of Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Dr Catherine Hirst
Assistant Professor
Professor Robert (Bob) Holdsworth
Professor of Structural Geology
Professor Claire Horwell
Professor of Geohealth
Professor Madeleine Humphreys
Professor
Dr Jenny Jenkins
Assistant Professor
Dr Stuart Jones
Associate Professor, Director of EDI
Dr Julia Knapp
Assistant Professor
Professor Ed Llewellin
Professor of Volcanology
Professor Colin Macpherson
Professor, Chair of Board of Examiners
Dr Lauren Marshall
Assistant Professor
Professor Ken McCaffrey
Professor
Professor Jim McElwaine
Professor of Geohazards
Dr Catriona Menzies
Associate Professor
Professor Stefan Nielsen
Professor, Director of Postgraduate Studies & Postgraduate Admissions
Professor Christine Peirce
Professor of Marine Geophysics
Professor Julie Prytulak
Professor of Geochemistry
Dr Christopher Saville
Assistant Professor (Teaching Fellow)
Professor Dave Selby
Professor
Dr Martin R. Smith
Associate Professor in Palaeontology and Director of Education
Professor Peter Talling
Professor in Submarine Geohazards
Dr Andrew Valentine
Associate Professor
Professor Jeroen Van-Hunen
Professor
Dr Fabian Wadsworth
Associate Professor
Professor Fred Worrall
Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Research Staff
Name
Title
Dr Heda Agic
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Fernando Andreu
Research Computing Platforms Engineer
Dr Matthieu Cartigny
Independent Research Fellow
David Colby
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Kilian Eichenseer
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Amanda Lindoo
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Rachel Meach
Research Assistant
Dr Geoff Nowell
Senior Research Officer / Associate Professor (Research)
Dr Chris Ottley
Senior Research Officer / H&S Co-ordinator
Dr Emma Ownsworth
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Kristijan Rajic
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Patrick Sullivan
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Timur Tezel
Sponsored Researcher Post
Dr Yuxiao Wang
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Gary Wilkinson
GIS Officer
Professional Support Staff
Name
Title
Mrs Karen Atkinson
Finance Manager Travel Reporter and Travel Approver
Miss Louise Bowron
Postgraduate Coordinator
Mrs Katherine Chambers
Learning & Teaching Administrator
Mrs Paula Elliott
Finance Administrator
Mrs Jill Hoult
Department Manager
Mrs Janice Oakes
Learning & Teaching Manager
Mrs Linda Owens
Finance Administrator (On secondment in the Business School)
Ms Sarah Richardson
Operations Administrator
Mrs Sandra Rust
Learning & Teaching Administrator
Mr Joshua Allchurch
Finance Administrator
Mrs Dianne Whatcott
Senior Research Administrator
Technical Staff & Experimental Officers
Name
Title
Anna Bird
Experimental Officer in Marine Instrumentation
Ian Chaplin
Thin Section Technician
Sophie Edwards
Thin Section Technician
Claire Long
'Technical Manager (Facilities)
Dr Chris Ottley
Senior Research Officer & H&S Co-ordinator
Joanne Peterkin
Res. Lab. Technican
Ben Pitcairn
Experimental Officer in Seabed Instrumentation
Poppy Reilly
Technician / PhD student
Samantha Thorpe
Geoscience Intermediate Technician
Research Student
Name
Title
Sultan Alhasawi
PhD
Freya Alldred
PhD
Ceri Allgood
PhD
Naeema Alnofeli
PhD
Susannah Atkinson
PhD
Ryan Bailey
MScR
Edward Blackman
MScR
Gemma Brown
PhD
Joe Brown
PhD
Erika Calderon-Medina
PhD
Ugurcan Cetiner
PhD
Louis Chambers
MScR
Ipshita Chatterji
MScR
Raquel Chun
PhD
Fadul Dawood
Rock Mechanics Lab Technician (also PhD student)
Alavya Dhungana
PhD
H?Ctor Escamilla-Garcia
PhD
Emily Fearns-Nicol
PhD
Edward Forman
MScR
Annabelle Foster
PhD
Malte Froemchen
PhD
Adam Gillett
MScR
Janina Gillies
PhD
Rebecca Hughes
MScR
Charlotte Jackson
MScR
Jorge Jacobo-Davila
PhD
Sam Jewell
MScR
Anthony Jones
PhD
Shubhangi Khobragade
PhD
?Kos Kiss
PhD
Tom Lark
PhD
Ariane Loisel
PhD
Joel Lozano-Perez
PhD
Luke Macpherson
MScR
Zak Milner
PhD
Will Nicholson
MScR
Chimaobi Nwachukwu
PhD
Josh Parry
MScR
Kathryn Phillips
PhD
Laksmi Rachmawati
PhD
Ella Richmond
PhD
Bex Robertson
PhD
Lewis Robinson
PhD
Katie Schofield
PhD
Mr. Krishna Silva
MScR
Alex Smith
MScR
Gustavo Lobato Soares
PhD
David Squirrell
MScR
Alexandra Sweeney
PhD
Jennifer Taylor
PhD
Francesca Warren
MScR
Adam Welsh
MScR
Zihan Yang
PhD
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Emeritus Professor Gillian Foulger
Emeritus Professor of Geophysics
Emeritus Professor David Harper
Emeritus Professor of Palaeontology
Emeritus Professor Richard Hobbs
Emeritus Professor
Emeritus Dr Grenville Holland
Emeritus
Emeritus Professor Roger Searle
Emeritus Professor of Geophysics
Emeritus Professor Maurice E Tucker
Emeritus Professor of Geological Sciences
Honorary Staff
Name
Title
Dr Mathieu Dellinger
Honorary Fellowship
Professor Tony Doré
Honorary Professor
Dr Bruce Julian
Honorary Research Fellow
Professor Nick Petford
Honorary Professor
Professor Richard Swarbrick
Honorary Professor
Professor Andy Aplin
Honorary Professor
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Title
Acelya Balli-Cetiner
Visitor
Dr Xin Dong
Senior Scientist from Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Dr Alexander Iveson
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Visitor
Dr Julien Mouli-Castillo
Academic Visitor
Dr Veronica Peverelli
Academic Visitor
Dr Richard Walker
Visitor
Geospatial Research Ltd
Name
Title
Professor Richard R. Jones
GRL Research Fellow
Dr Michele McErlean
GRL