School of Geosciences Staff
Key contacts within the School are also listed on this page.
Department people pages are here: Archaeology, Geography and Environment, Geology and Geophysics, Planetary Sciences.
Head of School
Administrative Team
- Mrs Ann Simpson (School Administration Manager - a.simpson@abdn.ac.uk)
- Mrs Daniela van Heerden (School Administrator - daniela.vanheerden@abdn.ac.uk)
- Ms Julie Forbes (School Administration Coordinator PGR - pgr-geosciences@abdn.ac.uk)
- Dr Deniz Cem Gülen (School Administration Coordinator PGT - pgt-geosciences@abdn.ac.uk)
- Mrs Elizabeth Euington (School Administration Assistant - geology@abdn.ac.uk)
- Miss Karen Jean Pabaus (School Administration Assistant - pgt-geosciences@abdn.ac.uk)
- Miss Ros Svala Palmadottir Sighvats (School Administration Assistant - archaeology@abdn.ac.uk and geography@abdn.ac.uk)
School Support Staff
- Mrs Jan Walker (Technical Resources Officer)
- Mr Jamie Bowie (Technician Cartography)
- Mr Jason Donald (Technician)
- Mrs Jennie Johnston (Technician Cartography)
- Mr Walter Ritchie (Technician Photographer)
- Mr John Still (Technician Microprobe & SEM)
- Mr Colin Taylor (Technician Geochemistry Laboratory)
- Dr Orsolya Czere (Technician)
Archaeology
- Prof Kate Britton (Senior Lecturer, Head of Department)
- Dr Rebecca Crozier (Lecturer)
- Dr Robert Dinnis (Lecturer)
- Dr Jenna Dittmar (Research Fellow)
- Dr Nicholas Evans (Research Fellow)
- Dr Linus Girdland Flink (Lecturer)
- Dr Charlotta Hillerdal (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Samantha Jones (Research Fellow)
- Dr Rick Knecht (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Mael Le Corre (Research Fellow)
- Dr Edouard Masson-Maclean (Research Assistant)
- Dr Elisabeth Niklasson (Lecturer)
- Prof Gordon Noble (Personal Chair)
- Dr Jeffry Oliver (Senior Lecturer)
- Prof Marc Oxenham (Personal Professor)
- Dr James O'Driscoll (Research Fellow)
- Dr Joshua Wright (Lecturer)
Geography and Environment
- Prof Matteo Spagnolo (Personal Chair & Head of Department)
- Mr Joel Blackburn (Research Assistant)
- Dr Jean-Christophe Comte (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Paula Duffy (Lecturer)
- Miss Jennifer Dodsworth (Research Assistant)
- Dr Josie Geris (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr David Green (Reader)
- Dr David Haro Monteagudo (Lecturer)
- Dr Dmitri Mauquoy (Senior Lecturer)
- Mr Ralph Mellor (Research Assistant)
- Dr Timothy Mighall (Reader)
- Dr Syed Mustafa (Honorary Research Fellow)
- Dr Piotr Niewiadomski (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Katya Dimitrova Petrova (Honorary Research Fellow)
- Prof Lorna Philip (Personal Chair)
- Dr Joseph Pierce (Senior Lecturer)
- Prof Tavis Potts (Personal Chair)
- Dr Katrin Prager (Reader)
- Prof Brice Rea (Personal Chair)
- Dr Andres Quiros (Royal Society Newton International Fellow)
- Dr J. Edward Schofield (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Nicholas Spedding (Lecturer)
- Dr Flurina Wartmann (Lecturer)
Geology and Geophysics
- Dr Malcolm J. Hole (Senior Lecturer, Head of Department)
- Professor Ian Alsop (Chair in Geology)
- Dr Clare Bond (Reader)
- Dr Stephen Bowden (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Alex Brasier (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Matthew Brettle (Senior Research Fellow)
- Dr Brian Burnham (Research Fellow)
- Professor Rob Butler (Chair in Tectonics)
- Dr Rachel Brackenridge (Lecturer)
- Dr M. Ara Carballo-Meilan (Technician)
- Miss Magda Chmielewska (Research Assistant)
- Dr David Cornwell (Lecturer)
- Dr Alena Ebinghaus (Honorary Research Fellow)
- Dr Iraklis Giannakis (Lecturer)
- Dr Amy Gilligan (Lecturer)
- Dr Antonio Grippa (Honorary Research Fellow)
- Professor Adrian J. Hartley (Chair in Sedimentology & Stratigraphy)
- Dr Dave Healy (Reader)
- Mr Daniel Holden (Research Assistant)
- Professor John Howell (Chair in Virtual Geosciences)
- Professor Andrew R. Hurst (Professor of Production Geoscience)
- Professor David Jolley (Chair in Geology)
- Professor Benjamin Kneller (Emeritus Professor)
- Dr Katrin Loer (Lecturer)
- Professor David Macdonald (Emeritus Professor)
- Dr Alessandro Mangione (Research Fellow)
- Dr Gail Maxwell (Research Fellow)
- Dr Aaron Neill (Research Fellow)
- Dr Joyce Neilson (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Colin P. North (Senior Lecturer)
- Professor John Parnell (Chair in Geology & Petroleum Geology)
- Mr Andrea Schito (Research Fellow)
- Dr Nick Schofield (Reader)
- Professor Christopher Soulsby (Chair in Hydrology)
- Professor Randell Stephenson (Emeritus Professor)
- Mr Robert Waltham (Research Assistant)
- Dr Gustavo Zvirtes (Research Fellow)
Planetary Sciences
- Professor Javier Martin-Torres (Personal Chair, Head of Department)
- Dr Anshuman Bhardwaj (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Thasshwin Mathanlal (Research Fellow)
- Dr Miracle Israel Nazarious (Research Fellow)
- Mr Juan Antonio Ramirez Luque (Research Assistant)
- Dr Shaktiman Singh (Lecturer)
- Dr Lydia Sam (Lecturer)
- Professor Maria-Paz Zorzano Mier (Chair)