Faculty

Cathy is Professor of Carbonate Geoscience. She has over 15 years industrial experience, having worked as a consultant carbonate sedimentologist for Badley Ashton and Associates Ltd and as a production geologist and Carbonate Research Team Leader for Shell International Exploration and Production. Cathy is an Associate Editor of Sedimentology and Sedimentary Geology.

Cathy co-ordinates carbonate research within the Sedimentary Basins Group of the School of Earth and Environmental Science at University of Manchester. She leads the PD3 consortium, in collaboration with Universities of Bergen, Bristol and Liverpool She also collaborates with Aix-Marseilles University, Texas A&M University and is an associate research for the CHARON (Marine Carbonate Archieves) project at Ruhr Universitat, Bochum. Her research interests include the sedimentology of Mississippian and Jurassic-Cretaceous carbonate platforms of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, dolomitization of carbonate platforms and pore system evolution and petrophysics. Cathy is an experienced teacher of undergraduate and postgraduate students in carbonate diagenesis and petrophysics and has graduated 12 PhD students since 2012.

Stefan earned a PhD in geology from the University of Bern (Switzerland), working on characterization of dolomite reservoirs in Oman. This was followed by postdoctoral research projects on Precambrian carbonates at MIT (USA) and the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). Most recently, I worked as a carbonate and subsurface geologist for Total SA in France. In this role, I was involved in reservoir studies, regional exploration studies and research applied to reservoir characterization. I worked on depositional systems from southern Africa to Mauritania, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and eastern Asia.