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Name | Topic | Supervisors | Grant Body | |
| Lucia Andreuttiova | 4-dimensional Evolution of Fault Zones. | Dr Pieter Vermeesch & Dr Tom Mitchell | NERC -DTP | |
| Abdulkadir Abdulkadir | Investigation on potential sources of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) in Loch Borralan, Northwest Highlands, Scotland. | Prof Adrain Jones & Dr Andy Beard | ||
| Thomas Baird | Sahara Dune Sands: Quantifying Celerity, Dust Production, and Provenance. | Dr Pieter Vermeesch | NERC - DTP | |
| Geoffrey Baron | Mineral physics of planetary ices. | Prof Lidunka Vocadlo & Ian Wood | STFC | |
| Fuencisla Canadas | Paleoceanographic context of organic matter deposition on the Yangtze Craton, South China, during the Ediacaran Period. | Prof Graham Shields & Dr Philip Pogge Von Strandmann | NERC - DTP | |
| Helen Xi Chen | Geochemical study on Precambrian hydrocarbons in the Xiamaling Formation, North China Craton. | Prof Graham Shields | China Council -UCL | |
| Kiran Chotalia | The effects of water content on mantle circulation, geochemical cycles and surface observables | Prof Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni | NERC - DTP | |
| Pauline Cornard | Supercritical versus subcritical bedforms, facies, geometry and architecture, Eocene Ainsa and Banaston systems, Ainsa basin, Spanish Pyrenees: implications for reservoir heterogeneity. | Prof Kevin Pickering | UCL/Industrial Studentship | |
| Adam Cotterill | A comprehensive assessment of volcanic hazard and mitigation strategies at remote volcanoes: Manam and Ulawun, Papua New Guinea. | Dr Emma Liu, Prof Christopher Kilburn | NERC - DTP | |
| Todd Downing | Investigating novel metasomatic processes at the Ilímaussaq Complex, South Greenland. | Prof Adrian Jones & Prof Eric Oelkers | NERC - DTP | |
| Jeffrey Davis | The groundwater resources of weathered precambrian basement complex acquifiers below erosion surfaces in southern and eastern Africa. | Dr Willy Burgess | Self-funded | |
| Bobby Elsigood | Measuring and modelling anisotropic crack damage and permeability evolution in rocks. | Prof Phillip Meredith & Dr Tom Mitchell | NERC - DTP | |
| Omar Regalado Fernandez | The early evolution of Sauropodomorph dinosaurs and the origins of quadrupedality in the largest land animals. | Prof Paul Upchurch | The National Council of Science and Technology in Mexico (CONACYT) | |
| Lisa Fuellenbach | Iron (oxy)hydroxide aided heavy metal decontamination. | Prof Eric Oelkers | MSCA-ITN (EU) | |
| Christopher Garrison | The Great Dry Fog of 1831: re-appraisinghistorical volcanic eruptions and their effects. | Dr Chris Kilburn & Dr Steven Edwards | Self-funded | |
| Antoniette Grima | The NeoTethys subduction, a case for sustained lateral and vertical dynamic flow. | Prof Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni | The Commonwealth Commission | |
| William Gregory | Using Complex Networks to Advance our Understanding of the Polar Climate System. | Dr Michel Tsamados & Professor Julienne Stroeve | NERC - DTP | |
| Rachel Hunt | Integrating Traditional and Scientific Knowledge for Tsunami Education: Cross-cultural Hazard Communication in New Zealand | Prof Mark Muslin, Dr Carina Fearnley & Dr Simon Day, | NERC - DTP | |
| Andrew Jamieson | Investigating the thermoeleastic properties of the [Fe,Ni]3Si system in conditions relevant to Mars and other smaller planetary bodies. | Prof Lidunka Vočadlo | NERC - DTP | |
| Tomos Kempley | Is Earth’s topography controlled by mantle thermodynamics? | Prof Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni | NERC | |
| Hojung Kim | Quantifying rates of evolution in Paleogene coccolithophores | Prof Paul Bown | NERC | |
| Miranta Kouvari | Climatic constraints on the distribution of terrestrial Neogene eutherian mammal diversity. | Dr Philip Mannion | Royal Society | |
| Mark Jefferd | Physics of creeping crustal rocks. | Dr Nicolas Brantut & Dr Tom Mitchell | NERC - DTP | |
| Marcin Latas | Recalibration and revised biochronology of Pliocene - Pleistocene tropical planktonic foraminifera datums – IODP Expedition 363. | Prof Bridget Wade & Prof Paul Bown | NERC - DTP | |
| Chunyao Liu | Examining the role of estuarine particles in silicate weathering. | Dr. Philip Pogge Von Strandmann | China Council -UCL | |
| Xianyi Liu | Use lithium isotopes to investigate the role of vegetation in mediating present and past silicate weathering | Dr. Philip Pogge Von Strandmann | China Council -UCL | |
| Isobel Lawrence | Towards improving thickness retrievals from Cryosat | Prof Julienne Stroeve & Dr Michel Tsamados | NERC - DTP | |
| Kate Laxton | Monitoring degassing behaviour and eruption precursors at Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, Tanzania. | Prof Adrian Jones & Dr. Sudeshna Basu-Gupta | NERC - DTP | |
| Giulia Magnarini | The formation mechanism of long runout landslides on planetary bodies. | Dr Tom Mitchell & Dr Peter Grindrod | STFC | |
| Robbie Mallett | Detecting and Modelling Snow and its Effects on Arctic Sea Ice. | Prof Julienne Stroeve & Dr Michel Tsamados | NERC - DTP | |
| Augustin Marignier | From Dark Matter to the Earth’s Deep Interior - There and Back Again. | Dr Ana Ferreira & Dr Thomas Kitching (MSSL) | STFC | |
| Gabriel Meyer | Creep of Granular Materials. | Dr Nicolas Brantut | EU Funding | |
| Jonathan Mille | Vulnerability to hydro-meteoroloigcal hazards : Interactive mapping solutions and enhanced data analysis and visualisation. | Dr Stephen Edwards | NERC - DTP | |
| Paul Minton | Late Middle Miocene climatic and biotic evolution: a high-resolution record from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1338 | Prof Bridget Wade | NERC - DTP | |
| Lily Moore | Mechanical properties and processes of large volcanic collapses. | Prof Hilary Downes, Dr Tom Mitchell | NERC - DTP | |
| Fieke Mulders | Elucidating mineral dissolution and precipitation mechanisms. | Prof Eric Oelkers | EU Funding (EC Marie Curie Research Student) | |
| Cecily Nicholl | The Evolution and Biogeographic History of Notosuchian Crocodylomorphs. | Dr Philip Mannion | Royal Society | |
| Giles Ostermeijer | Evolution and significance of fault damage structures on plate boundary faults: the southern San Andreas fault system. | Dr Tom Mitchell | NERC - DTP | |
| Rebecca Pearce | Nature of the link between tectonics and volcanism in the Central and Southern Andes | Prof Phil Meredith & Dr Tom Mitchell | NERC - DTP | |
| Claire Routledge | Plankton evolution and the Paleogene/Neogene transition. | Prof Paul Bown & Dr Jeremy Young | NERC - DTP | |
| Almudena Sanchez De La Muela Garzon | Understanding the tectono-magmatic relevance of transverse faults in the Andes, Chile from seismicity and seismic imaging. | Dr Tom Mitchell & Dr James Hammond | NERC - DTP | |
| Lara Smale | The Control of Hydrothermal Systems on Eruption Precursors at Large Volcanic Calderas. | Dr Chris Kilburn & Stephen Edwards | NERC - DTP | |
| Ashley Stanton-Yonge | Tridimensional stress and the development of structural permeability. | Dr Tom Mitchell | CONICYT (Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica), Becas Chile | |
| Becca Strachan | Structural Controls on Fluid Pathways and Alteration in the Seismic Cycle of Porphyry Deposits in Chile. | Dr Pieter Vermeesch, Dr Tom Mitchell & Dr Jamie Wilkinson (NHM) | NERC - DTP | |
| Sarah-Jane Strachan | Ankylosaur Palaeohistology and Life History Traits. | Prof Paul Upchurch & Prof Anjali Goswami | Self-funded | |
| William Sturgeon | 3D global seismic attenuation tomography and geodynamical implications. | Dr Ana Ferreira | NERC - DTP | |
| Sarmin Sultana | Investigations of hydrological loading influences on the Bengal Basin Aquifer System. | Dr William Burgess & Dr Richard Taylor | Commonwealth Commission, UK | |
| Ze Tao | Late Miocene climatic and biotic response: high-resolution records from the IODP Site U1338. | Prof Bridget Wade | China Scholarships Council - UCL Studentship | |
| Evangelia K. Tripoliti | The Thermoelastic Properties of Garnets. | Dr Andrew Thomson & Prof Ian Wood | NERC - DTP | |
| Jac Van Driel | Understanding the role of Grain Boundaries in Lower Mantle: From the atom to the continuum. | Prof John Brodholt | UCL Studentship / NERC | |
| Paul Varotsis | A reappraisal of Dorsetisaurus and the origin and biogeographyof Anguimorpha | Prof Paul Upchurch and Prof Susan Evans (NHM) | Self-funded | |
| Maria-Jose Vera Gonzalez | Multiscale characterisation of seismic scattering, diffraction and anisotropy in the lithosphere/asthenosphere system. | Dr Alex Song | CONICYT Becas-Chile | |
| Fred Wilson | Thermodynamics of a MgO-CaO system under magma ocean conditions following giant impact. | Prof Lars Stixrude | MoltenEarth ERC Project | |
| Blaise Winnard | Long-term performance of a geological disposal facility in response to permafrost and climatic variation. | Dr Tom Mitchell, Prof Phil Meredith | Industrial CASE Studentship: EPSRC & RWM Limited, in partnership with BGS. | |
| Marisa Wood | Birch’s Law: does it work for iron and iron alloys in planetary cores. | Prof Lidunka Vocadlo | STFC | |
| Ferhat Yilmaz | Regional Climate Modelling and Analysis of Observed and Modelled Trends in Extreme Weather Events in Turkey: An Assessment of the Relative Roles of Global and Regional Climate Drivers in Any Changes. | Ministry of National Education of The Republic of Turkey | ||
| Kun Zhang | The History of Mid-Proterozoic Oceanic Redox Conditions: Implications for Early Eukaryote Evolution. | Prof Graham Shields | China Council -UCL | |
| Tian Jerry Zheyu | Understanding the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian boundary on the North China craton. | Prof Graham Shields | China Council -UCL |