Past Graduate Students

List of our past PhD graduates and their current employer

  1. Aude Duval Arnould, 2015-2019. NARG Funded. ' Controls on stratigraphic development of shelf margin carbonates: Jurassic Atlantic margin - Essaouira-Agadir Basin, Western Morocco'. (Post Doctoral Research Assistant at University of Manchester)
  2. Sayed Behbehani, 2014-2019. Kuwait Oil Company funded PhD. ‘Controls on Petrophysical properties of Mauddud formation, Bahra and Sabriyah fields, Kuwait’. Lead supervisor. (Current Employment: KOC)
  3. Catherine Breislin, 2014- NERC PhD CASE award with BGS. ‘Basin-scale mineral and fluid processes at a palaeo-platform margin, Lower Carboniferous, UK’. Lead Supervisor. (Current Employment: Badley Ashton and Associations)
  4. Carmen Zwahlen, 2014- ‘Isotopic constraints on crustal fluid processes’. Co-supervisor with Dr Greg Holland. (Post Doctoral Fellow at Lulea University, Sweden)
  5. Salem Al Hammami, 2014. ADNOC funded PhD- ‘Seismic interpretation of the Mesozoic of the UAE’. Co-supervisor with Prof Mads Huuse. (Current Employment: ADNOC)
  6. Jonathan Lavi, 2013 -BP Funded PhD ‘Improving Interpretation of Seismic Data with Next-Generation Carbonate Seismic Stratigraphy: Analogues for Cenomanian-Turonian shallow marine platform systems’ Lead supervisor. (Current Employment: ESRI)
  7. Matthew Warke, 2013. 'Stratigraphic and geochemical framework of the Palaeoproterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen: Transvaal Supergroup (South Africa). (Research Fellow at University of St. Andrews, UK)
  8. Aurelian Gabriel Meyer, 2013-2016 Maersk Qatar funded PhD ‘Porosity modification of the Shuaiba Formation, Al Shaheen Field, offshore Qatar’ Lead supervisor. (Post doctoral Fellow)
  9. Aisha Al Hajri, 2009-2015, PDO-funded PhD ‘Timing of porosity generation at the Shuaiba/Nahr Umr boundary’. Lead supervisor. (Current Employment: PDO)
  10. Jesal Hirani, 2010-2014 Consortium funded PhD (Total, BG-Group, Saudi Aramco) ‘Diagenetic evaluation of fault/fracture related dolomitization, Cretaceous-Eocene, Hammam Fauran Fault Block, Gulf of Suez’. (Current Employment: X-Ray Minerals)
  11. Richard Newport, 2010-2014, North Africa Research Group funded PhD, ‘Dolomitization of Cenomanian-Turonian Carbonates, North Africa and Western Mediterranean’. Lead supervisor. (Current Employment: Shell International Exploration and Production)
  12. Miles Frazer, 2010-2014, NERC CASE award with Chevron, PhD ‘Reconstruction of burial diagenetic processes in a post-rift regime’ Joint project with University of Bristol. Lead supervisor. (Current Employment: Chevron)
  13. Alex Sharples, 2010-2014 ‘Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution of the South Australian Margin: Sediment-rich to sediment-starved passive margin evolution and implications for hydrocarbon systems’. Co-supervisor with Dr Mads Huuse. (Current Employment: BP)
  14. Charlotte Winterbottom, 2009-2014 ‘Depth-related depositional fabrics of a progressively drowned carbonate platform, Hawaii’. NERC CASE award with BG-Group. Co-supervisor with Prof Kevin Taylor. (Current Employment: Weatherford)
  15. Alanna Juerges, 2008-2012, NERC CASE award with Shell, PhD. ‘Reconstructing the burial history of fractured carbonate systems using the Lower Carboniferous of the UK and Europe’. Lead supervisor. (Current Employment: Shell International Exploration and Production)
  16. Ibraihm Al Rajaibi, 2007-2011, PhD. ‘Origin and distribution of Athel Silicilyte and comparison with Monterey Formation’. Co-supervisor with Dr Joe McQuaker. (Current Employment: PDO)
  17. Said Al Balushi, 2007-2011 ‘Discussions on the fundamental controls of lithofacies variability and organic matter preservation in a clastic-starved intrashelf depositional basin: a multi-proxy study of the Natih B Member (Middle Cretaceous, Oman)’. Ad hoc supervisory support. (Current Employment: PDO)

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