Staff

General Contact Information

Administrative Function	Email address
Head of Department	earthsci.hod@durham.ac.uk
Undergraduate Teaching/Programme	earth.ugadmin@durham.ac.uk
Postgraduate Programme	earth.pgadmin@durham.ac.uk
Finance	earth.finance@durham.ac.uk
Research	earth.research@durham.ac.uk
Operations	earth.ops@durham.ac.uk

Academic Staff

Name	Title
Prof Mark Allen	Professor
Prof Andrew Aplin	Head of Department, Chair of the Board of Studies, Professor
Prof. James Baldini	Professor
Dr Richard James Brown	Undergraduate Admissions Director, Associate Professor
Prof Kevin Burton	Professor of Geochemistry
Dr Nicola De Paola	Associate Professor
Prof Jon Gluyas	Ørsted/Ikon Chair in Geoenergy, Carbon Capture & Storage
Dr Darren R. Gröcke	Associate Professor (Reader)
Prof. Chris Greenwell	Professor of Geochemistry
Professor David Harper	Professor of Palaeontology
Professor Robert Holdsworth	Professor of Structural Geology
Prof. Claire Horwell	Professor of Geohealth
Dr Madeleine Humphreys	Associate Professor
Dr Jenny Jenkins	Assistant Professor
Dr Stuart Jones	Associate Professor, Director of Postgraduate Admissions
Dr Julia Knapp	Assistant Professor
Prof. Ed Llewellin	Professor of Volcanology
Prof Colin Macpherson	Professor, Chair of Board of Examiners
Prof Ken McCaffrey	Professor
Prof Jim McElwaine	Professor of Geohazards
Dr Catriona Menzies	Assistant Professor
Prof Stefan Nielsen	Professor
Professor Yaoling Niu	Professor
Professor Christine Peirce	Professor of Marine Geophysics
Dr Julie Prytulak	Associate Professor, Director of Postgraduate Studies
Dr Christopher Saville	Assistant Professor (Teaching)
Prof. Dave Selby	Chair
Dr Martin Smith	Assistant Professor in Palaeontology
Professor Peter Talling	Professor in Submarine Geohazards
Dr Andrew Valentine	Assistant Professor
Prof Jeroen van Hunen	Professor
Dr Fabian Wadsworth	Associate Professor
Dr Richard Walters	Associate Professor
Professor Fred Worrall	Professor of Environmental Chemistry

Research Staff

Name	Title
Dr Antonio Capponi	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Matthieu Cartigny	Independent Research Fellow
Dr Matthew Funnell	Post Docotoral Research Associate
Dr Alexander Iveson	Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow
Dr Theresa Jezierski	GED Research Fellow
Dr Martin Mangler	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Geoff Nowell	Senior Research Officer
Dr Chris Ottley	Senior Research Officer
Dr. Stephen Pansino	Royal Society Newton International Fellow
Dr Matthias Sinnesael	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Mr Gary Wilkinson	Petroleum Geology Experimental Officer

Professional Support Staff

Name	Title
Mrs Karen Atkinson	Finance Manager Travel Reporter and Travel Approver
Miss Louise Bowron	Postgraduate Coordinator
Mrs Paula Elliott	Finance Administrator
Miss Holly Gardner	Learning & Teaching Administrator
Mrs Jill Hoult	Department Manager
Miss Kendra Johnson	Senior Assistant Finance (p/t Thurs-Fri)
Mrs Janice Oakes	Learning & Teaching Manager
Ms Sarah Richardson	Operations Administrator
Miss Emma Rusby	Postgraduate Coordinator (Maternity Cover)
Mrs Sandra Rust	Learning & Teaching Administrator
Mrs Dianne Whatcott	Senior Research Administrator

Technical Staff

Name	Title
Mr Ian Chaplin	Thin Section Technician
Mr Andrew Clegg	Experimental Officer in Marine Instrumentation
Mr James Dyson	Departmental Superintendent
Miss Sophie Edwards	Trainee Thin Section Technician
Ms Joanne Peterkin	Res. Lab. Technican
Mrs Samantha Thorpe	Geoscience Apprentice Technician

Research Student

Name	Title
Miss Peace Aaron	PhD
Miss Naeema Al Nofeli	PhD Student
Miss Ceri Allgood	PhD
Mr Nikolaos Apeiranthitis	PhD Student
Mr Timothy Armitage	PhD Student
Mr Oluwafemi Aro	PhD Student
Miss Imogen Bailes	MScR
Mrs Aimee Barroso	PhD Student
Mr Abdulwahab Bello	PhD Student
Mr. Fakhri Bintang	MScR
Mr Oliver Bowers	MScR
Miss Eloise Bretagne	PhD Student
Mr Joshua Brown	PhD Student
Mrs Erika Calderon-medina	PhD
Mr. Jack Campbell	MScR
Mr Xu Cao	PhD Student
Ms Natasha Chapplow	PhD Student
Mr Dimitrios Charlaftis	PhD Student
Miss Hoi Cheung	PhD Student
Miss Raquel Chun	PhD Student
Mr Philip Davies	MScR Student
Mr Sudirman Dawing	PhD Student
Mr Fadul Dawood	Rock Mechanics Lab Technician (also PhD student)
Mr. Alavya Dhungana	PhD Student
Miss Eleanor Dunn	MScR
Mr Robert (Bob) Elliott	PhD Student
Mr. Hector Escamilla-garcia	PhD Student
Miss Annabelle Foster	MScR
Mr Maximilian Franzel	PhD Student
Mr Malte Froemchen	PhD
Miss Catherine Gallagher	Ph.D. Student
Miss Eshbal Geifman	MScR
Miss Janina Gillies	PhD
Miss Megan Green	MScR
Miss Katharine Groves	PhD Student
Mr Mohammad Hamidi	PhD Student
Ms. Yu Harasawa	PhD Student
Miss Francesca Haywood	MScR
Ms Kate Heerema	PhD Student
Mr. Alexander Jefferies	MScR
Mr Akos Kiss	PhD
Mr Karl Kraavi	MScR
Mr. Thomas Lark	PhD
Mr Jack Lee	PhD Student
Mr. Matthew Likely	MScR
Miss Ariane Loisel	PhD Student
Miss Tara Love	MScR
Mr Joel Lozano	PhD Student
Mr Joshua Marsh	MScR
Mr. Ernest Mulaya	PhD Student
Miss Nadia Narayan	Ph.D. Student
Miss Chimaobi Nwachukwu	Ph.D Student
Miss Veda Ong	MScR
Miss Emma Ownsworth	PhD Student
Miss Sophie Page	PhD Student
Miss Alice Paine	MScR
Mrs Laksmi Rachmawati	PhD Student
Miss Rahmawati Rahayu	PhD Student
Miss Rebecca Robertson	PhD
Mr Lewis Robinson	MScR
Mr. Sean Ruffell	PhD Student
Mr. Jack Salisbury	PhD
Mrs Catriona Sellick	PhD Student
Ms Anza Shakeel	PhD Student
Miss Eleanor Smart	MScR
Mr. Gustavo Soares	PhD
Mr. David Squirrell	MScR
Miss Madeleine Stow	PhD Student
Mr Rory Sutton	MScR
Mrs Alexandra Tamas	PhD Student
Ms Jennifer Taylor	MScR
Mr Joseph Tedd	MScR
Mr Niall Tracey	PhD
Mr Christos Vasilopanagos	PhD Student
Mr. Tom Verniers	PhD Student
Miss Rebecca Winstanley	MScR
Miss Zihan Yang	PhD Student

Emeritus Staff

Name	Title
Emeritus Professor Gillian Foulger	Emeritus Professor of Geophysics
Emeritus Professor Richard Hobbs	Emeritus Professor
Emeritus Dr Grenville Holland	Emeritus
Emeritus Professor Roger Searle	Emeritus Professor of Geophysics
Emeritus Professor Maurice E Tucker	Emeritus Professor of Geological Sciences

Honorary Staff

Name	Title
Doré, Professor Tony	Honorary Professor
Julian, Dr Bruce	Honorary Research Fellow
Swarbrick, Professor Richard	Honorary Professor
Vye-Brown, Charlotte	Honorary Fellow
Alonso-Rasgado, Teresa	Honorary Professor
Imber, Jonny	Honorary Fellow

Visitors

Name	Title
Dr Xin Dong	Senior Scientist from Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Dr Yang Yan	Senior Engineer - Development and Research Centre, China Geological Survey in Beijing

Geospatial Research Ltd

Name	Title
Dr Susan Daniels	GRL Research Fellow
Dr Richard R. Jones	GRL Research Fellow
Dr Michele McErlean	GRL
Mr David Oxlade	GRL Research Assistant
Dr Maxwell Wilkinson	GRL