Biography

• 2013 - Professor of Geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth.
• 2007-2017, Head of School, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth.
• 2003-2013 Reader, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth.
• 1982-2003 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Principal Lecturer/Reader, Department of Geology, Oxford Polytechnic/Oxford Brookes University.
• 1978-1982 University of Keele, Staffordshire (graduated PhD; thesis title: “Geology of the Moine rocks of the Loch Eil area, West Inverness-shire”).
• 1975-1978 University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (graduated BSc Hons in Geology, Upper Second Class).

Research interests

• The nature of orogenic processes within the middle to lower continental crust.
• Mechanisms of granite emplacement in different structural settings.
• The application of geochronological techniques to date deformational and metamorphic events during orogeny.
• The evolution and reactivation history of major continental fault zones.
• The syn- to post-orogenic erosional history of mountain belts.