People
Academic Staff
The following School staff lead research projects within the Tectonics and Geophysics Research Group:
- Associate Prof Simon Lamb - Tectonics and structural geology
- Prof Tim Little - Earth deformation, rise of deep-seated metamorphic rocks, paleoseismology, and mountain-building in the Southern Alps
- Prof Martha Savage - Earthquakes, volcanoes, earth structure, and plate tectonics
- Prof Diane Seward - Low temperature thermochronology: Fission-track analysis, (U-Th-Sm)/He analysis with applications in tectonics, structural geology, basin analysis, and landscape evolution
- Emeritus Prof Euan Smith - Seismology, and seismic hazard assessment
- Prof Tim Stern - Crustal structure, interaction of climate and tectonics, and exploration geophysics
- Prof Rupert Sutherland - Plate kinematics, plate-boundary processes, and exploration geophysics
- Prof John Townend - Earthquakes and fault mechanics, plate tectonics, tectonophysics, seismology, structural geology, and alpine faults
- Dr Julie Vry - Metamorphism, metamorphic pressure-temperature-time (P-T-t) histories, fluid flow, and fluid-rock interaction
- Prof Colin Wilson - Explosive volcanism, and interactions of magmatic and tectonic processes
Please contact a staff member in the research area of interest to you.
Other staff
- Dr Simon Barker - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in volcanology, geochemistry, and petrology
- Dr Carolyn Boulton - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in fault mechanics
- Dr Calum Chamberlain - Geophysics
- Dr Jenni Hopkins - Volcanic geochemistry
- Dr Finnigan Illsley-Kemp - Volcano geodynamics
- Dr Claire Lukens - Climate and tectonics