Geology at Leicester
Past research students
Our research groups have boasted excellent projects completed by our past research students. These ranged from ostracods in Scotland to volcanism in Pantelleria, Italy. Research in some projects has been continued by our current research students.
Solid Earth
Completed projects conducted by our past research students for the Solid Earth theme.
| Name | Research title |
|---|---|
| Joao Afonso | Electrical resistivity measurements in coal: assessment of coal-bed methane content, reserves and coal permeability. (GPB) (2015) |
| Hassan Al Marzouki | The potential uses of waste materials from ornamental stones (granite) quarries in Saudi Arabia. (VTMR) (2011) |
| Emmanuel Arhin | Use of regolith geochemistry to delineate potential gold targets in savannah regions of Ghana. (VTMR) (2013) |
| Abdullah Bamousa | Structural development and tectonic significance of the Carmel Head Thrust Belt, Anglesey, NW Wales. (VTMR) (2009) |
| Adrian Band | Investigating early Palaeozoic mantle processes: a study of Rheic Ocean ophiolites. (VTMR) (2016) |
| Kieran Blacker | Evaluating 3D sedimentary architecture as a fundamental control on geotechnical and physical properties (Dogger Bank Round 3 Windfarm zone) (GPB) (2022) |
| Daryl Blanks | The nature and genesis of the Munali nickel sulphide megabreccia deposit, southern Zambia (VTMR) (2021) |
| Alodie Bubeck | Unravelling the kinematic evolution of segmented rift systems. (VTMR) (2016) |
| Mark Button | Arsenic contaminated soils - human exposure and environmental toxicology. (VTMR) (2010) |
| Ameena Camps | Effects of sediment characteristics, temperature and pressure on CO2 flux and hydrate formation in near surface ocean sediments. (GPB) (2008) |
| Angela Castagna | Influence of high temperatures on the chemical, physical and mechanical properties of deforming volcanic edifices. Implications for dyke emplacement for volcano instability. (GPB) (2021) |
| Sam Cheyney | 3D quantitative interpretation of archaeomagnetic surveys: application of mathematical modelling to determine depths and physical characteristics of buried materials. (GPB) (2012) |
| Rose Clarke | Post-subduction magmatism and mineralisation: the Tuvatu gold deposit, Fiji. (VTMR) (2023) |
| Samuel Cox | Finite element methods for modelling mantle dynamics backward in time: finding the most likely scenario. (VTMR) (2018) |
| Ben Ellis | Rhyolitic explosive eruptions of the Central Snake River Plain, Idaho: Investigations of the Lower Cavora Mountains successions and surrounding areas.(VTMR) (2009) |
| Vlad-Victor Ene | Magmatic evolution of a gold telluride district - Metaliferi Mountains, Romania (VTMR) |
| Peter Fitch | Heterogeneity in the petrophysical properties of carbonate reservoir rocks. (GPB) (2011) |
| Jennifer Graham | Controls on the temporal and spatial distribution of organic matter in siliciclastic mudstones: implications for source rock development in shale gas plays.(GPB) (2012) |
| Stephen Grebby | Application of airborne LiDAR to fault mapping, structural analysis, and identification of fracture controlled mineralisation, Slovenia and Cyprus. (VTMR) (2011) |
| Gregor Hahn | High-temperature deformation of tuffs at explosive volcanoes: a field and structural investigation (VTMR) (2022) |
| Anthony Hardwick | New insights into the crustal structure of the England, Wales and Irish Sea area from local earthquake tomography and associated seismological studies.(GPB) (2009) |
| Pablo Davilla Harris | Catastrophic sedimentation and volcanism in southern Tenerife, Canary Islands. (VTMR) (2009) |
| David Hartigan | The influence of mineralogy, geochemistry and sedimentology on petrophysical properties in fine-grained successions. (GPB) (2015) |
| Nyree Hill | Development of a genetic model for targeting gold mineralisation in the Scottish Dalradian. (VTMR) (2015) |
| Nina Jordan | Eruptive history of the peralkaline caldera volcano at Pantelleria, Italy. (VTMR) (2015) |
| Simon Jowitt | The geometry and evolution of fluid-flow systems forming volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) deposits - the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus. (VTMR) (2009) |
| Thomas Knott | Ash dispersal from ignimbrite-forming super-eruptions in the central Snake River Plain, Yellowstone hot-spot, USA. (VTMR) (2014) |
| Sven Koenitzer | Primary biological controls on UK lower Namurian shale gas prospectivity: understanding a major potential UK unconventional gas resource. (GPB) (2014) |
| Alex Lemon | Modelling marine gas hydrate dissociation and sediment stability. (GPB) (2012) |
| Nicholas Lloyd | Transport, uptake and behaviour of 'old' depleted uranium in the environment. (VTMR) (2010) |
| Walid Ben Mansour | Neogene uplift of Scandinavia: a seismic study of the crust. (GPB) (2017) |
| Sam Matthews | Petroacoustic modelling of heterogeneous sandstone reservoirs. (GPB) (2014) |
| Emily McCarthy | Seismic structure of the upper mantle beneath the Atlantic Ocean: implications for the lithosphere-asthenosphere system. (GPB) (2015) |
| Michael Morton | Integrated sedimentology and isotope geochemistry of a world-class source rock in the Black Sea. |
| Rawand Noori | Sequence stratigraphy and hydrocarbons prospecting of the Turonian - Maastrichtian successions from outcrop and oil wells in the western Zagros Foreland basin. Kurdistan region, NE Iraq. (VTMR) (2015) |
| Sarah Owen | Geological origins of sugar loaf peaks in eastern Brazil and their environmental importance as refugia for Atlantic rain forest biodiversity. (VTMR) (2014) |
| Pariyakorn Petkaew | 4D imaging of the fault zone environments in North of Thailand using ambient seismic noise. (GPB) (2022) |
| Martha Papadopoulou | Investigating the long term evolution of intraplate basalt magmatism in Mongolia. (VTMR) (2023) |
| Steve Rippington | The crustal evolution of Nemegt and Altan Uul, Southern Mongolia. (VTMR) (2008) |
| Joanne Robbins | Investigating generic methodologies for combining technical natural hazards models with social infrastructure datasets to generate a multi-hazard risk and impact product for the South West Pacific region of Papua New Guinea using models and data feeds from the Met Office. (VTMR) (2015) |
| Nick Roberts | From crystal to crust - the Proterozoic crustal evolution of southwest Norway. (VTMR) (2010) |
| Abdulaziz Samkari | Development of the Red Sea rift system: the role of pre-existing structure on the western margin of Saudi Arabia. (GPB) (2022) |
| Thomas Sheldrick | What drove Mongolian Mesozoic magmatism: was it crustal or mantle processes? (VTMR) (2019) |
| Andrew Shore | Selenium geochemistry and isotopic composition of sediments from the Cariaco Basin and the Bermuda Rise: A comparison between a restricted basin and the open ocean setting over the last 500ka. (VTMR) (2011) |
| Dan Smith | Understanding active and fossil magmatic-hydrothermal mineralising processes within an Emergent Volcano (Savo, Solomon Islands). (VTMR) (2009) |
| Jennifer Smith | The nature and origin of PGE mineralisation in the Rooipoort area, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa. (VTMR) (2015) |
| Philip Smith | Neotectonics of the UK: linking crustal deformation and surface evolution. (GPB) (2020) |
| Amy Stephen | Active and ancient geothermal systems in Tethyan ophiolites as examples of novel solutions for natural CO2 sequestration. (VTMR) (2015) |
| Tara Stephens | Are sills a record of applied horizontal compression? (VTMR) (2020) |
| Annika Szameitat | The rise and erosion of the Canadian Rocky Mountains: Its relation to modern topography, North American climate, and North Hemisphere glaciation. (VTMR) (2017) |
| Simon Tapster | Magmatic, structural and tectonic controls on CU-AU mineralization in the Solomon Islands arc, South West Pacific. (VTMR) (2014) |
| Rowan Vernon | Mountain building processes in the Tibetan Foreland: The Precambrian-recent Evolution of the Dunhuang Block, NW China. (VTMR) (2016) |
| Laura Ward | Crustal controls on craton-margin magmatic ore deposits: insights from south eastern Africa. (VTMR) (2022) |
| Bernhard Weise | Joint inversion of magnetotelluric, seismic and gravity data. (GPB) (2022) |
| Christopher Willcox | Piecemeal - type explosive calderas: eruption behaviour, periodicity, and volcanic structure in Los Humeros volcano, Central Mexican Volcanic Belt. (VTMR) (2011) |
| Rebecca Williams | Catastrophic emplacement of hot volcanic density currents over irregular topography, Pantelleria, Italy. (VTMR) (2011) |
| Yannick Withoos | Hazardous explosive eruptions at a flooded caldera volcano, Philippines (VTMR) (2022) |
Evolution and Past Environments
Completed projects conducted by our past research students for the Evolution and Past Environments theme.
| Name | Research title |
|---|---|
| Neil Adams | Out from the shadow of the dinosaurs? Dietary diversity and niche partitioning in Cretaceous and Palaeocene mammals. (2023) |
| Jawad Afzal | Paleocene/Eocene foraminifers of the Indus Basin, Pakistan. (2011) |
| Adeyinka Aturamu | Glacial-interglacial changes in deep water ventilation and oxygenation in the Bering Sea, subarctic North Pacific: insights from fossilised deep sea biota. (2015) |
| David Baines | Tooth microwear: Its use and application in assessing ecological and evolutionary processes within the sub-phylum Vertebrata. (2011) |
| Carys Bennett | Lower Carboniferous ostracods and isotopes of the Midland Valley, Scotland: testing for the ecological shift into non-marine environments. (2010) |
| Jordan Bestwick | Resolving pterosaur dietary ecology using tooth microwear and biomechanics. (2020) |
| Nicola Clark | A molluscan record of Late Cenozoic climate change and palaeoseasonality from South America. (2015) |
| Thomas Clements | Decay, preservation and environmental controls on non-biomineralized fossil anatomy: the taphonomy of the Carboniferous Mazon Creek, USA. (2019) |
| Laurent Darras | The evolution and macroecological consequences of grazing and shell crushing in fishes. (2012) |
| Benjamin Davies | Hydrodynamics and locomotion in early vertebrates. (2009) |
| Jospeh Emmings | Controls on UK lower Namurian gas shale prospectivity: Understanding the spatial and temporal distribution of organic matter in siliciclastic mudstones. (2019) |
| Robert Goodall | Tooth wear in fishes and killer whales - developing 3D microtextural analysis as a robust tool for dietary and trophic analysis in living and fossil aquatic vertebrates. (2017) |
| Thomas Wong Hearing |
Constraining the marine environment of the Cambrian metazoan adaptive radiation. (2019) |
| Irfan Jan | The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) in the clastic sequences of the Kohat Basin, northern Pakistan: a low latitude, Tethyan view of the fastest global warming in recent Earth history. (2011) |
| Oliver Knevitt | Exceptional preservation of a Silurian Biota - taphonomy and palaeobiology of the Eramosa Lagerstätte. (2016) |
| Xiaoya Ma | The lower Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, Yunnan, China. (2009) |
| Laura McLennan | Tooth wear and microtextural analysis of diet and feeding in living and fossil chondrichthyans. (2018) |
| Mohibullah Mohibullah | Ostracod faunal response to global climate change during the Late Ordovician and Early Silurian. (2012) |
| Christopher Nedza | Pigmented and organically preserved soft-bodied fossils – using taphonomic mode to interpret anatomy. (2022) |
| Leah Nolan | Equatorial sea surface temperature seasonality in the Mississippian (Carboniferous) derived from brachiopod shell carbonate. (2018) |
| Alex Page | Taphonomy and diagenesis of graptolites. (2008) |
| David Riley | Preservation and taphonomy of the fossils of the Herefordshire (Silurian) Konservat-Lagerstätten. (2012) |
| Claudia Sahy | Isotopic ages for the late Eocene - early Oligocene: insights into the greenhouse-icehouse transition. (2014) |
| Dinah Smith | The Holocene palaeoenvironmental change in the Fenland of Eastern England. (2014) |
| Andrea Snelling | Characterization of stratigraphy and palaeoceanography using graptolites: exploring new concepts in the Aeronian (Silurian) of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. (2009) |
| Christopher Stocker |
The biogeographical significance of the Silurian trilobite assemblages of Japan. (2021) |
| Zardasht Taha | Response of Ostracods to the end Ordovician extinction and early Silurian recovery. (2018) |
| Alison Tasker | The micropalaeontology and geological provenance of Roman mosaics. (2016) |
| Rowan Whittle | Enigmatic fossils from the Upper Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstätte, South Africa. (2008) |
| James Wilkinson |
Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the Ludlow (Silurian) graptolites. (2022) |
| Vince Williams | Aspects of dinosaur palaeobiology. (2011) |