• Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences - School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, UK (2015 – present)
• Lecturer in Earth Sciences – School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, UK (2007 – 2015)
• Research Fellow - at the Hellenic Centre of Marine Research, Athens (2006)
• Postdoctoral Associate – EUROpean Deep-water Margins (EURODOM) project (EU), 2004-2006 (based at the Hellenic Centre of Marine Research, Athens)·          
• Postdoctoral Associate – Geological and Mining Institute (Lisbon, Portugal), Marine Geology Department (2002-2003) 
• PhD – Basin Analysis and Petroleum Geology, University of Manchester, UK (2002)
• BSc – Engineering Geology (5 years), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1992-1997)

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• 2nd most downloaded paper in Marine and Petroleum Geology (2015-16): Oil and Gas Collection

  Apr 2016 Outstanding Reviewer Award - Marine Geology (2014/2015)

  Nov 2016 Outstanding Reviewer Award - Ocean Engineering (2016)
• May 2005 Luis Saldanha - Young Marine Researcher's award (Portugal)
• Feb 2001 UNESCO TTR best presentation - Moscow

Aelodaethau proffesiynol

• Geological Society of London
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• Geological Association of Canada

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• Deputy Leader for International Recruitment and Impact - School of Earth and Ocean Sciences (2017-)
• Deputy Research Leader at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences (2016-17)
• Member of the Awards Committee - Geological Society of London
• PhD examiner - Manchester (x2), Leeds (x2), Keele, UCL, Plymouth, University of Western Australia, Aberdeen and Royal Holloway-University of London. MSc Examiner (Bergen)
• Proposal reviewer for the NSF (USA), NERC (UK), DFG (Germany), Irish Research Council (Ireland), Environment and Conservation Fund (Hong Kong).

• Petroleum Geology and Basin Analysis (3rd year) - Module leader
• Advanced Stratigraphy and Sedimentology (3rd year) - Module leader
• Engineering Geology (3rd year, teaching Reservoir Engineering)
• Structural Techniques field trip (2nd year): N Spain
• MESci field trip to SE Spain
• Completed Modules 1, 2 and 3 of Cardiff's PCUTL - Postgraduate Certificate in University  Teaching and Learning in 2009.

I lead the 3D Seismic Lab, supervising postgraduate students and managing research projects with industry, academia and governmental institutions. I am closely involved in the supervision of PhD and MESci students at Cardiff, collaborating actively with Total, Statoil, Petrobras (Brazil), Husky Energy, Repsol and Partex Oil and Gas in Industry-related projects under the general theme of continental margins and basin analysis. I also collaborate with the IODP – Integrated Ocean Drilling Program in a number of projects, namely in Japan, Brazil and in USA's northeast margin. At present, my current key research areas include East Canada (Newfoundland, Labrador and W Greenland), the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (Crete and Levantine Basin), West Iberia (Portugal, Spain), NW Africa (Morocco and Canary Islands), UK and Norway, South China Sea (China), Ceará, Pernambuco, Santos and Espírito Santo Basins (SE Brazil), the Amazon Fan and Equatorial Brazil (South America), the Nankai Trough (SE Japan), New Zealand, Australia, West Africa (Angola, Nigeria, Namibia), Gulf of Mexico and Alaska (USA).

Postgraduate Supervision (completed PhD theses)

Davide Gamboa, PhD (2012) - Young Scientist Award 2012 (Geol Soc. London) - Now at BGS-Wales

Ricardo Pereira, PhD (2013) - Now at PDO Oman

Duarte Soares, PhD (2014) - Now at CGG in Llandudno

Kamal'deen Omosanya, PhD (2014) - Now at NTNU-Trondheim (Norway)

Aldina Piedade, PhD (2016) - Now at University of Coimbra and ISCIA (Portugal)

Qin Yongpeng, PhD (2017) - Now at Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering (China)

Wei Li, PhD (2017, supervised at Uni Kiel, Germany) - Now at the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou (China)

Nathalia Mattos, PhD (2017) - Fault reactivation and salt tectonics

Second supervisor for Daniel Carruthers (PhD on fault families on the flanks of diapirs), Bledyn Jones (KESS PhD scholarship on CO2 sequestration), and Chris Kirkham (Mud Volcanoes in the Nile Delta)

MESci theses

Adam Curtis, MESci (2008) - Geometry of channel-fill deposits

Sean Bale, MEsci (2012) - 3rd place at NEFTEX's Earth Model Award (2012) - Gas hydrate dstribution in SE Japan

Phalene Gowling, MESci (2013) - Recognising fluid flow features in SE Brazil

Katherine Jawed, MESci (2013) - Salt tectonics in the Dutch North Sea

James Van Tuyl, MESci (2014) - Normal faulting in the Nankai accretionary prism (SE Japan)

Ben Thomas, MESci (2014) - Crestal faults of salt diapirs in the North Sea

Claire Elliot, MESci (2014) - The Atlantic break-up sequence in the North Sea

Sarah Newnes, MESci (2014) - Structural compartmentalisation of Rotliegend strata (Permian)

Victoria Howarth (2015) - Fluid flow through carbonate shelves

Bethany Cowling (2016) - Fault compartmentalisation of Posidonia Shales in the Southern North Sea

Charles Reynolds (2017) - Igneous intrusions in salt-rich basins

Current PhD supervision:

Tao Ze - Evolution of crestal faults on salt diapirs

Nicholas Ward - Differential compaction in sedimentary basins

James van Tuyl - Evolution of carbonate shelves in NW Australia

Marco Azevedo - Structural evolution of Nankai's accretionary prism

Tomas Cupkovic - Evolution of N Atlantic rift basins

Chantelle Roesleff - Fluid flow in sedimentary basins

Olivia Walker - Jurassic ocean gateways of the North Atlantic

Roberto Espejel - Structural controls on carbonate-platform growth

Jing Song - Structural controls on submarine slope instability

Cerys Biancardi - Slope instability in salt-rich basins

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Nicholas Ward

Research student

Song Jing

Research student

Cerys Biancardi

Research student

Olivia Walker

Research student

Roberto Loza Espejel

Research student

Marco Azevedo

Research student

Ms Chantelle Roelofse

Research student