Geology PhD students

Name Email Research theme Research title
Neil Adams  nfa10@le.ac.uk  Evolution and Past Environments Out from the shadow of the dinosaurs? Dietary diversity and niche partitioning in Cretaceous and Palaeocene mammals
Bob Bamberg  bb224@le.ac.uk Solid Earth The physical and mechanical properties of natural fault zones in basaltic volcanic rocks
Lewis Banks  lab68@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Advancing micro-analytical isotopic and trace-element ICP-MS techniques for future applications to ore genesis and exploration
Rachel Belben  rb497@le.ac.uk  Evolution and Past Environments
 The anatomy, function and evolutionary history of the pterosaur bauplan - a taphonomic approach
Jessica Berry  jb772@le.ac.uk Solid Earth An integrated accessory mineral approach to understanding post-subduction magmas and mineralisation
Kieran Blacker  kjb44@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Evaluating 3D sedimentary architecture as a fundamental control on geotechnical and physical properties (Dogger Bank Round 3 Windfarm zone)
Daryl Blanks  db404@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Developing a new model for the emplacement of magmatic sulphide megabreccias in the Zambezi Supracrustal Sequence
Kate Canham krc18@le.ac.uk Solid Earth Controls on the metallurgy of sulfide mineralisation of the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex
Rose Clarke  rhc11@le.ac.uk Solid Earth Post-subduction magmatism and mineralisation: the Tuvatu gold deposit, Fiji
Will Crabbe  wc117@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments Growth, form and function in problematic Cambrian paraconodonts
Efeoghene Enaworu  ee104@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Pore to field scale rock typing and reservoir characterisation
Vlad-Victor Ene  vve1@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Magmatic evolution of a gold telluride district - Metaliferi Mountains, Romania
Alice Fugagnoli  af314@le.ac.uk Contemporary Environments
 Plastic, a new anthropogenic component of the geological cycle: its chemical and physical behaviour and transformation
Gregor Hahn  gh156@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  High-temperature deformation of tuffs at explosive volcanoes: a field and structural investigation
Stephen Himson  sjh142@le.ac.uk  Evolution and Past Environments
 Are invasive species ('neobiota') a biostratigraphical and biological marker of the Anthropocene?
Rachael Holmes  rh419@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments  Tracing the geological signature of a human-induced transformation of the biosphere in Indonesia
Tayyaba Khurram  tk231@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Bottom-up analysis for resource estimation of the Bowland-Hodder shale gas unit using an improved model for TOC
Hedwig Krawczyk hak19@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments SIOPACT - Developing a 250 year climate record for the Southeastern Indian Ocean sector of the Indo-PACific warm pool and its global climate Teleconnections 
Bethan McCarroll  bm284@le.ac.uk Solid Earth
 Impact-cratering in Scotland: field investigation of the emplacement, sedimentology and environmental effects of a major impact-event
Anna McGairy
 am1220@le.ac.uk Evolution and past Environments
 The early Palaeozoic evolution of Vietnam
Edward McGowen egm8@le.ac.uk Solid Earth Eruption source vents and subsidence patterns in exhumed caldera volcanoes, English Lake District
Michael Morton  mtm11@le.ac.uk  Evolution and Past Environments
 Integrated sedimentology and isotope geochemistry of a world-class source rock in the Black Sea
Walid Naciri  wn36@le.ac.uk  Evolution and Past Environments
 Unlocking Past and Present Climatic and Anthropogenic Drivers of Environmental Change Influencing Miri-Sibuti Coral Reefs National Park (Borneo, Malaysia)
Christopher Nedza  can18@le.ac.uk  Evolution and Past Environments
 Pigmented and organically preserved soft-bodied fossils – using taphonomic mode to interpret anatomy
Martha Papadopoulou  mp589@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Investigating the long term evolution of intraplate basalt magmatism in Mongolia
Pariyakorn Petkaew  pp273@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  4D imaging of the fault zone environments in North of Thailand using ambient seismic noise
Abdulaziz Samkari  ass42@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Development of the Red Sea rift system: the role of pre-existing structure on the western margin of Saudi Arabia
Christopher Stocker  cps10@le.ac.uk  Evolution and Past Environments
 The biogeographical significance of the Silurian trilobite assemblages of Japan
Chris Stockey  css25@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments Ecological drivers and evolutionary patterns: diet, feeding, evolution and extinction in conodonts
George Stonadge  grs17@le.ac.uk Solid Earth 
 Accessory Minerals as Fertility Indicators in Copper Porphyry Deposit Formation
Erin Thompson
 et201@le.ac.uk Solid Earth Primary controls on the emplacement of mineralised magmatic units in the northern Bushveld Complex
Lauren Tuffield lt259@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Fertility of subduction and post subduction magmatism associated with porphyry- and epithermal-Cu-Au mineralisation in the Aegean using zircon geochronology and geochemistry 
Laura Ward  law51@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Crustal controls on craton-margin magmatic ore deposits: insights from south eastern Africa
Bernhard Weise  bmw20@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Joint inversion of magnetotelluric, seismic and gravity data
Cara Wells  cw434@le.ac.uk Solid Earth Melt fragmentation during giant impact events: a volcanological approach
James Wilkinson  jcw38@le.ac.uk  Evolution and Past Environments
 Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the Ludlow (Silurian) graptolites
Yannick Withoos  yw382@le.ac.uk  Solid Earth  Hazardous explosive eruptions at a flooded caldera volcano, Philippines
Yasmin Yonan  yvy2@le.ac.uk  Evolution and Past Environments
 The marine Anthropocene and the law of the sea
Manlin Zhang  mz224@le.ac.uk Evolution and Past Environments Unlocking Western Tropical Indian Ocean temperature and hydroclimate back to the Little Ice Age and the Holocene, reconstructed from coral geochemistry