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 |
| 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 | QB245 |
| 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 |
| Qiong Li | Leverhulme Postdoctoral Researcher | QB202a |
| Meighan Boyd | Post Doctoral Research Associate | QB202a |
| Lucia Perez Diaz | Postdoctoral Researcher in Tectonics and Structural Geology | QB271 |
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. |
| ABOU SHOUG, Reem | Regional Tectonics, Factured Reservoirs, and Fluid Transport in Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Basins in Libya. |
| ADEOYE-AKINDE, Kayode | New methods for forecasting the permeability of fractured reservoirs |
| AL TOFAIF, Saeed | Ordovician Glacier Deposits Across Northwest Saudi Arabia: Stratigraphy, Geomorphology, and Deformation Within Alwizam Paleovalley Complex. |
| ALI, Dilshad | Basin Analysis of the middle-late Jurassic successions of Kurdistan Region Northern Iraq. |
| ALSHALAN, Aliah | Methane Emission in kuwait and their Isotopic Signature. |
| ALSHEHRI, Azizah | Dyke emplacement, arrest, and volcanic hazard in the area of Harrat Lunayyir, Saudi Arabia. |
| ANTONATOS, Georgios | Stratigraphic forward modeling and synthetic seismic imaging of carbonate strata. |
| BAZARGAN, Mohsen | Numerical Analysis and experimental investigation of optimizing geothermal resources and decreasing risks and hazards. |
| BELENGUER, Jorge | Salt Tectonics in the East Central Graben. |
| BRETT, Marianne | Teleconnections in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool recorded in Holocene speleothems. |
| BROWLOW, Rebecca | Anomalies in Tropical Methane Emissions: Using Isotopes to Characterise Source Variability. |
| BULKAN, Sibel | Geological and kinematic evolution of the North Anatolian Fault system, secondary and offshore strands |
| CADE, Shirley | Emissions of nitrogen trace gases from forest soils: measured and modelled. |
| 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. |
| CREASER, Adam | Turbidite-Contourite Interactions on the Uruguayan Continental Margin: Implications for sedimentary stacking patterns and hydrocarbon exploration. |
| CROSETTO, Silvia | Structural evolution and seismic hazard of the Kyaukkyan Fault, Myanmar. |
| DE MONTSERRAT NAVARRO, Albert | Uniting Brittle and ductile deformation in extensional basins. |
| DENG, Hongdan | Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Dampier Sub-basin and the Rankin Platform, Northern Carnarvon Basin, NW Shelf of Australia. |
| DRYMONI, Sandy | Dyke propagation paths: The movement of magma from the source to the surface. |
| EL SHAAFI, Abdelsalam | Volcano-tectonic evolution and geochemical of the Al Harj volcanic province, central Lybia. |
| FORBES INSKIP, Nathaniel | New Methods for Maximising Shale Permeability and Minimising Risk During Hydraulic Fracturing. |
| FUKUNARI, Tetsuzo | Permeability development and fluid transport in fractured reservoirs. |
| GALLOIS, Arnaud | Outcrop analogue study of Mesozinic lacustrine carbonates; facies modeling and pore system analysis. |
| GUTIERREZ MORENO, Heraclio | Structural evolution, modeling and petroleum system implications of Deepwater Fold-Thrust Belts in the Salina del Bravo Province, western Gulf of Mexico. |
| HUGHES, Alex | Interaction of tectonic and gravity-driven deformation processes with deposition systems during syn-rift and post-rift sedimentary basin evolution |
| IMAGBE, Lucky | Flow Turbulence and Submarine Sediment transport; a case study of Agadir basin, Offshore Morocco, Northwest African Margin. |
| 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 |
| JOST, Benjamin | Timing of magmatism, metamorphism and uplift in the Bird's Head, West Papua |
| 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. |
| PEREZ DIAZ, Lucia | Depth through time in the South Atlantic. |
| PEZZATI, Giovanni | The tectono-stratigraphic evolution of westen Gorontalo Bay, Indonesia: A seismic and forward modelling study. |
| 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. |
| ROS, Elena | Influence of tectonic settling and extension velocity on basement and sedimentary architecture of rifted continental margins. |
| RUIZ, Alejandro | Analysis of the tectono-stratigraphic evolution and salt tectonic processes of the salt basin in the southern Gulf of Mexico. |
| SAEED TAHIR, Azad | Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Mid-Late Jurassic successions Kurdistan Region, Northern Iraq. |
| SHEPHERD, Rosalie | Oxidation of real atmospheric organic matter on interfaces of atmospheric aerosol does it activate cloud droplets. |
| SULTANA, Daniel | Numerical modeling of marine carbonate shelf geometries and facies architectures. |
| SURYA NUGRAHA, Ega | The celebes Molasse deposits in Sulawesi, Indonesia. |
| TAMARA, Javier | Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of deepwater fold belts. |
| 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. |
| TUCK-MARTIN, Amy | Integration of plate-kinematic stress data with the regional stress history of sedimentary basins along the East and South African continental margins. |
| WALKER, Stephanie | Geochronology of multiple orogenic events in the complex basement terrain of Shetland. |
| 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 |
| Andrew Scott | Emeritus Professor in Palaeobotany, coal geology |
| 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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Analytical Facility |
Analytical Method(s) |
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Electron Microscopy |
Scanning 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) X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry |
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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 |
Continuous Flow-Mass Spectrometry Dual-Inlet Mass Spectrometry |
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Mineral Identification |
X-Ray Diffraction Spectrometry |
