People

Academic Staff

The following School staff lead research projects within the Tectonics and Geophysics Research Group:

• Dr Carolyn Boulton -  fault mechanics
• Dr Calum Chamberlain - Geophysics
• Prof Martha Savage - Earthquakes, volcanoes, earth structure, and plate tectonics
• 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
• 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 Jenni Hopkins - Volcanic geochemistry
• Dr Finnigan Illsley-Kemp - Volcano geodynamics
• Adjunct Prof Simon Lamb - Tectonics and structural geology
• Emeritus Prof Tim Little - Earth deformation, rise of deep-seated metamorphic rocks, paleoseismology, and mountain-building in the Southern Alps
• Emeritus Prof Euan Smith - Seismology, and seismic hazard assessment
• Prof Tim Stern - Crustal structure, interaction of climate and tectonics, and exploration geophysics
• Dr Julie Vry - Metamorphism, metamorphic pressure-temperature-time (P-T-t) histories, fluid flow, and fluid-rock interaction