Postgraduate Research
The UCD School of Earth Sciences has a thriving international postgraduate community. We currently have around 20 students representing 8 nationalities. The majority of our postgraduates study for a PhD or MSc by research. Under the UCD PhD Scholarship Initiative, 150 PhD scholarships are being offered across a number of Schools in the University for the 2019/20 academic year. Please see the UCD PhD Scholarship Initiative for more information.
General information about postgraduate studies at UCD can be found on the UCD Graduate Studies Website.
Current PhD Researchers
- Berdi, Laura: An integrated study of the Hatton Basin: its role in regional North Atlantic petroleum systems
- Correia, João: Present and future regional scale climate influences on renewable energy resources
- Couvin, Benjamin: Characteristics of slow-moving submarine landslides
- Doran, Aileen: Hydrothermal fluid flow in Irish Zn-Pb deposits: a Zn-Cu-S isotope and clumped isotope approach
- Gomez Garcia, Clara: Seismic imaging with high-frequency waveform techniques
- Lopez Cabrera, Javier: Measuring and modelling stacking patterns in turbidite sequences
- Maggio, Giovanni: Multi-environment seismic ambient noise imagery in Ireland
- Moore, John Paul: Quantitative analysis of fault and fracture systems and their impact on groundwater flow in Irish bedrock aquifers
- Naantu Ekandjo, Halleluya
- Neofitu, Roland: Tracking Neogene growth and collapse of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) by detrital provenance analysis
- O'Donnell, Eoin: Syn-rift basin fill architecture - constraints from forward stratigraphic modelling
- O'Sullivan, Conor: Structural and kinematic analysis of the Slyne and Erris Basins: understanding the link between structural evolution and traps
- Subasic, Senad: Multidisciplinary shallow crustal imagery at Boliden Tara Mines
- Susin, Victória: Subsurface geological characterization of Stonepark prospect using multiphysics geophysical inversions and petrophysics
- Twigg, Helen: Halokinetic structure in the Kipushi-Kalindi area (Zambia-DRC) and comparison of the paragenetic sequences of alteration and mineralization in Kipushi-Kalindi area and Kakanda (DRC)
Current MSc Researchers
Previous Postgraduates
2021
- Dr Lowney, Brydon: Diffraction Imaging: Towards Clearer Images of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
- Dr Papageorgiou, Fani: An investigation of uranium occurance, sources and mobilisation processes in selected Irish groundwaters
- Dr Russell, Alex: An Investigation of arsenic sources, speciation and mobilisation processes in selected Irish aguifers
2020
- Dr Hussain, Arif: Controls on clay distribution at bed-level in deep-water sandstones; implications for permeability and hydrocarbon drainage
- Dr Kaeter, David: Rare element enrichment processes in LCT pegmatites and implications for geochemical exploration
- Dr Rodriguez Salgado, Pablo: Structural and kinematic analysis of the Celtic Sea basins - exploring links between evolution and traps
- Dr Soni, Kishan: Hierarchical sedimentary characterisation and modeling of submarine channels
- Dr Walsh, Deirdre: Reservoir modelling conditioned to seismic and well data
- Dr Whiting, Lewis: Prediction of deep-water stratigraphic traps developed across the syn-rift to post-rift transition in Atlantic margin basins
2019
2018
2017
- Dr Barros, Renata: Petrogenesis of lithium-rare metal pegmatites along the eastern margin of the Leinster Granite, southeast Ireland
- Dr Eibl, Eva: An Investigation of Seismic Tremor on Glacier Covered Volcanoes in Iceland
- Dr Thun, Johannes : Accessing seismic near-field information with seismometers: From laboratory constraints to volcano seismic applications
- Dr Zubiate, Laura: The role of atmospheric teleconnection patterns in modulating wind energy resources
2016
- Dr Comas Bru, Laia: Atmospheric controls on rainfall and soil water 18O; implications for proxy-based NAO reconstruction in Europe
- Dr Delogkos, Efstratios: 3D fault zone architecture in Kardia Mine, Ptolemais Basin, Greece
- Dr Fonnesu, Marco: Distal flow transformations and architecture of turbidite lobe systems