The Department of Earth Sciences is located in the Queens Building.
Our main point of contact is the Departmental Office which can be reached at the following address:
Department of Earth Sciences
Queens Building
Royal Holloway University of London
Egham Hill
Egham, Surrey
TW20 0EX, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1784 443581
Key Staff
| Head of Department | Professor Jürgen Adam | 01784 414258 |
| Admissions Tutor | Professor Dave Waltham | 01784 443617 |
| Department Manager | Ms Nisha Patel | 01784 443582 |
| Financial Administrator | Ms Diane Serpant | 01784 443588 |
| Student Enquiries | Ms Lynne White | 01784 443581 |
| Technical Operations Manager | Mr Dan Parsonage | 01784 443595 |
Academic Staff
| Adam, Jürgen | Professor in Structural Geology | QB216 |
| Basu, Anirban | Lecturer in Isotope Geochemistry | QB251 |
| Chiarella, Domenico | Lecturer in Sedimentary Geology | QB281 |
| Clemitshaw, Kevin | Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geoscience | QB243 |
| Collinson, Margaret | Professor of Plant Palaeobiology | QB254 |
| Dickson, Alex | Lecturer in Isotope Geochemistry | QB253 |
| Falcon-Lang, Howard | Professor | QB277 |
| Fisher, Rebecca | Lecturer in Atmospheric biogeochemistry | QB244 |
| Ghail, Richard | Reader in Tectonics | QB245 |
| Gough, Amy | Lecturer in Clastic Sedimentology | QB268 |
| Gudmundsson, Agust | Professor of Structural Geology | QB282 |
| Grassineau, Nathalie | Geochemistry Laboratory Director | QB276 |
| Hall, Robert | Professor and Director of SE Asia Group | QB268b |
| Hernandez-Molina, Javier | Professor in Sedimentary Geology | QB267b |
| Hier-Majumder, Saswata | Senior Lecturer in Geophysics | QB254 |
| King, Martin | Professor in Atmospheric Geoscience | QB238 |
| Lowry, David | Reader in Stable Isotopes & Greenhouse Gases | QB276 |
| Manning, Christina | Lecturer in Igneous Geochemistry | QB245 |
| Mattey, David | Professor of Geochemistry | QB250 |
| McClay, Ken | Professor of Structural Geology | QB269 |
| Morgan, Jason | Professor of Geophysics | QB270 |
| Nisbet, Euan | Professor of Earth Sciences | QB280 |
| Scarselli, Nicola | Lecturer in Subsurface Imaging & Evaluation | QB222c |
| Smith, Steve | Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geoscience | JB003 |
| Solferino, Giulio | Lecturer in Earth Science Resources | QB249 |
| Thirlwall, Matthew | Professor in Isotope Geochemistry | QB222c |
| Vannucchi, Paola | Professor in Marine Geology | QB279 |
| Waltham, David | Professor in Mathematical Geology | QB247 |
| Watkinson, Ian | Regional Tectonic Analysis | QB278 |
Support Staff
| Parsonage, Dan | Technical Operations Manager | QB265 |
| Patel, Nisha | Department Manager | QB215 |
| Longbottom, Mark | IT Manager | QB224 |
| Serpant, Diane | Financial Administrator | QB253 |
| Lehane, Frank | Electronics & Computing | QB224 |
| White, Lynne | Postgraduate Programmes Coordinator | QB215 |
| Gibbons, Sharon | Palaeontology Technician | QB261 |
| Brakely, James | Geochemistry Laboratory & Rock Crushing | QB041 |
| Holloway, Neil | Thin Sections | QB009 |
| Morris, Jerry | Science Workshop Engineer | Science Workshop |
| White, Babara | Laboratory Technician | QB016 |
| D'Souza, Kevin | Deputy TOM & Photography | QB219 |
Research Staff
| Tim Breitfeld | Postdoctoral Research Officer SEARG | QB222b |
| James Hammerstein | Postdoctoral Researcher in Structural Geology | QB271 |
| Julianne Hennig | Postdoctoral Research Fellow SEARG | QB222b |
| Mathias Lanoisellé | Postgraduate Research Assistant | QB201 |
| Meighan Boyd | Post Doctoral Research Associate | QB202a |
| Lucia Perez Diaz | Postdoctoral Researcher in Tectonics and Structural Geology | QB271 |
| Andrew Scott | Distinguished Research Professor | JBB |
Research Students
PhD research studies are supported by Research Council, industrial and College studentships, and projects cover the wide range of departmental research interests. Our postgraduate teaching and research activities strengthen links with a wide range of industrial and commercial partners within the oil, mineral, extraction, waste management and water industries
| ABOLHASSAN, Awad | Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Exmouth Plateau, NW Shelf, Australia. |
| ADEOYE-AKINDE, Kayode | New methods for forecasting the permeability of fractured reservoirs |
| ALSHALAN, Aliah | Methane Emission in kuwait and their Isotopic Signature. |
| BAZARGAN, Mohsen | Numerical Analysis and experimental investigation of optimizing geothermal resources and decreasing risks and hazards. |
| BULKAN, Sibel | Geological and kinematic evolution of the North Anatolian Fault system, secondary and offshore strands |
| CHAN, Veronica | The impact of nitrogen chemistry in snow on atmospheric oxidising capacity under modern and past climate change. |
| CHEN, Xuanyu | Tephrochronology of Changbaishan Tianchi volcano and proximal-distal correlations between China and Japan. |
| CLARKE, Alexander | Seismogenic zone input: the upper plate contribution in Costa Rica. Structural analysis of the Osa Melange. |
| DRYMONI, Sandy | Dyke propagation paths: The movement of magma from the source to the surface. |
| IMARISIO, Camilla | Investigating the interaction of magma plumbing systems beneath Icelandic volcanoes: How close are they really to their neighbours. |
| ISMAIL, Rafika | Tectono-sedimentary evolution and provenance of the Neogene sediments of the greater Sabah Margin, offshore NW Borneo |
| KAEWKOR, Chanida | Relationships between extensional basin structure and sedimentary systems in the western gulf of Thailand. |
| KOZLOWSKI, Estanislao | Forward modeling of Mesozonic lacustinecarbonates: facies predictions and links to large-scale stratal architecture. |
| LAMARE, Maxim | Characterisation of the BRDF of sea ice in response to deposited aerosols for the inter-calibration and validation of satellite RS products. |
| LIEBERMANN, Christof | Provenance of Sediments from Sumatra, Indonesia. |
| LIU, Liang | Cracking Continents : The China Syndrome. |
| MARTOS ALVAREZ, Raquel | Global synoptic survey of the breakup unconformity |
| MELIA, Sam | The Structural Geology of the Sorong Fault Zone using Seismic Data and Multibeam Assets |
| MIANAEKERE, Victoria | Impact of early salt tectonic processes and sequence stratigraphic modelling on postpermian basin evolution and petroleum systems in the southern North Sea. |
| MOHAMMAD SAID, Yasir | Oligocene through Early Miocene sedimentation in offshore Sarawak, NW Borneo - Studies of provenance, stratigraphy, and tectonics |
| MOHAMED, Basim | The Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution of the Ceduna Sub-basin, Southern Margin of Australia. |
| PREISS, Anna | Thick-skinned and thin-skinned salt tectonic processes and synkinematic depocentre evolution in the North Sea Basin: Implications for trapping mechanisms and reservoir distribution. |
| SAEED TAHIR, Azad | Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Mid-Late Jurassic successions Kurdistan Region, Northern Iraq. |
| TARAMON GOMEZ, Jorge | Combining plate tectonics movements and global flow models in a spherical geometry to study mantle flow, melting and epeirogeny during rift initiation and basin growth. |
| THIEBLEMONT, Antoine | Contourite depositional and erosional features along the East African and Southeast American margins: trace-back past circulation settings |
| THOMSON, Paul-Ross | Numerical modelling of reactive multiphase flow in low-porosity reservoirs. |
| WEBB, Max | Mapping the Australian-Pacific plate boundary in Western New Guinea |
| XIAO, Jie | Understanding Non-uniqueness in Sedimentary Settings to Reduce Exploration Risk |
Emeritus, Honorary & Visiting Staff
| Ali Al-Juboury | Visiting Professor in Earthsciences |
| David Alderton | Honorary Research Associate |
| Tony Barber | Emeritus Reader, Tectonics, SE Asia Group |
| Derek Blundell | Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, Basin Dynamics |
| Dan Bosence | Emeritus Professor of Carbonate Sedimentology |
| Ian Davison | Visiting Professor in Earthsciences |
| John Dolson | Visiting Professor in Petroleum Geosciences |
| Keith Gerdes | Honorary Lecturer |
| Martin Insley | Visiting Professor in Petroleum Geology |
| John Mather | Emeritus Professor in Hydrogeology & Environmental Geochemistry |
| Martin Menzies | Emeritus Professor in Volcanology and Geochemistry |
| Moreton Moore | Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow |
| Norman Oxtoby | Honorary Research Associate |
| Ted Rose | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Graeme Simpson | Visiting Professor in Earthsciences |
| Inga Sevastjanova | Honorary Research Associate |
| Nathan Sheldon | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Mike Simmons | Visiting Professor of Petroleum Geology |
| Emma Tomlinson | Honorary Research Associate |
| Leigh Truelove | Visiting Lecturer in Petroleum Geology |
| Sergei Turenko | Visiting Professor of Geology & Geoinformatics |
| John Wright | Honorary Fellow |
| Bernie Vining | Visiting Professor in Petroleum Geology |
| Yigang Xu | Visiting Professor in Earthsciences |
| Sirwan Yamulki | Honorary Research Fellow |
Our Facilities
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Electron Microscopy |
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Elemental Analysis |
Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (Solution) Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry Multi-Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (Solution and Laser Ablation) |
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Isotopic Analysis |
Multi-Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (Solution and Laser Ablation) Thermal Ionisation-Mass Spectrometry |
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Light Stable Isotopes |
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Mineral Identification |
