Place and date of birth: Lourenço Marques (currently Maputo), Mozambique, 22.10.1954
Nationality: Portuguese
Institutional Address: Departamento de Geologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício C6, Piso 2, 1749-016 Lisboa Portugal
Mobile: + 351 962838150
E-mail: fomarques@fc.ul.pt and fomarques@gmail.com
Skype: fmogmarques
Main scientific areas of research
Structural Geology, Tectonics, Experimental and Numerical Modelling, Tectonophysics, Geodynamics
Academic degrees
Habilitation – Lisbon University, 2003
Ph.D. in Geology, Internal Geodynamics, Summa Cum Laude – Lisbon University, 1994
M.Sc. in Geology – Lisbon University, 1989
Graduation in Geology, with final average mark of 17 out of 20 – Lisbon University, 1985
Academic career
Geology student – 5 years course completed in 5 years, from 1980/81 to 1984/85
Assistant in training – 1986 to 1989
Assistant – 1989 to 1994
Assistant Professor – since April 1994
Present position
Assistant Professor with Habilitation at the University of Lisbon
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Recent and current activity
2014-2015
From 1st June 2014 to 1st September 2015 on sabbatical leave abroad, fully dedicated to research:
June and July 2014 in Canada, working with Giorgio Ranalli at the Carleton University, Ottawa, and field work in the Canadian Rockies, along the transects Calgary-Vancouver-Calgary south and North.
1st September 2014 to 15th February 2015 in Germany, learning Geodynamic Modelling with Boris Kaus at the University of Mainz.
15th February to 15th April in India, working with Santanu Bose (a former Post-Doc of mine in Lisbon, now at University of Kolkata) and Nibir Mandal (University of Jadavpur), including field work in Rajasthan and the NW Himalaya.
23rd April to 23rd June in Germany, back to Mainz to work with Boris Kaus.
29th June to 3rd August in the Azores for fieldwork with Ana Costa and Anthony Hildenbrand.
Back from sabbatical leave, back to teaching, started a new Theoretical and Practical course on Tectonics as of 14th September 2015.
January 2016 - 1 week visit to Mainz to work with Boris Kaus and Ana Costa on numerical modelling for the new MEGAHards2 project
January 2016 - 1 week visit to Paris to work for the new MEGAHards2 project with Anthony Hildenbrand from Paris-Saclay, Christian Hübscher + Kataryna from Hamburg, Anne Mangeney + Nicole Métrich + Vittorio Zanon from IPGP, and Philippe Gondret from FAST - Paris-Saclay.
June 22nd to July 31st, 2016 - field work campaign in the Azores with Anthony Hildenbrand.
August 27th to September 16th - field work campaign in Cape Verde.
November 2nd to 15th - visit Roma Tre, Paris-Orsay and IPGP for meetings related to MEGAHazards2.
Editorial task 2016-17 - Managing Guest Editor of Tectonophysics Special Issue "Solid Earth Processes" in honour of E. Burov (Eds. Gerya, T., Jolivet, L., Kaus, B., Marques, F.O., Podladchikov, Y.)
2016-2017
Editorial task 2016-17 - Managing Guest Editor of Tectonophysics Special Issue "Solid Earth Processes" in honour of E. Burov
December 2016 - January 2017 - 5 weeks field work abroad
April/May 2017 - Mainz, Azores, Macau
2015
[86] Sibrant, A.L.R., Marques, F.O., Hildenbrand, A., 2015. Reply to the comment by Quartau et al. on "Construction and destruction of a volcanic island developed inside an oceanic rift: Graciosa Island, Terceira Rift, Azores", J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 284, 32-45, by Sibrant et al. (2014). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 303, 193-198.
[85] Costa, A.C.G., Hildenbrand, A., Marques, F.O., Sibrant, A.L.R., Santos de Campos, A., 2015. Catastrophic flank collapses and slumping in Pico Island during the last 130 kyr (Pico-Faial ridge, Azores Triple Junction). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 302, 33-46.
[84] Marques, F.O., Machek, M., Roxerová, Z., Burg, J.-P., Almqvist, B.S.G., 2015. Mechanics, microstructure and AMS evolution of a synthetic porphyritic calcite aggregate deformed in torsion. Tectonophysics 655, 41-57.
[83] Sibrant, A.L.R., Hildenbrand, A., Marques, F.O., Weiss, B., Boulesteix, T., Hübscher, C.. Lüdmann, T., Costa, A.C.G., Catalão, J.C., 2015. Morpho-structural evolution of a volcanic island developed inside an active oceanic rift: S. Miguel Island (Terceira Rift, Azores). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 301, 90-106.
[82] Marques, F.O., Catalão, J., Hildenbrand, A., Madureira, P., 2015. Ground motion and tectonics in the Terceira Island: tectonomagmatic interactions in an oceanic rift (Terceira Rift, Azores Triple Junction). Tectonophysics 651-652, 19-34.
[81] Nogueira, F.C.C., Marques, F.O., Bezerra, F.H.R., de Castro, D.L., Fuck, R.A., 2015. Cretaceous intracontinental rifting and post-rift inversion in NE Brazil: insights from the Rio do Peixe Basin. Tectonophysics 644-645, 92-107.
[80] Sibrant, A.L.R., Hildenbrand, A., Marques, F.O., Costa, A.C.G., 2015. Volcano-tectonic evolution of the Santa Maria Island (Azores): implications for palaeostress evolution at the western Eurasia-Nubia plate boundary. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 291, 49-62.
2014
[79] Hildenbrand, A, Weis, D., Madureira, P., Marques, F.O., 2014. Recent plate re-organization at the Azores Triple Junction: evidence from combined geochemical and geochronological data on Faial, S. Jorge and Terceira volcanic islands. Lithos 210-211, 27-39.
[78] Sibrant, A.L.R., Marques, F.O., Hildenbrand, A., 2014. Construction and destruction of a volcanic island developed inside an oceanic rift: Graciosa Island, Terceira Rift, Azores. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 284, 32-45.
[77] Marques, F.O., Catalão, J., Hildenbrand, A., Costa, A.C.G., Dias, N.A., 2014. The 1998 Faial earthquake, Azores: Evidence for a transform fault associated with the Nubia-Eurasia plate boundary? Tectonophysics 633, 115-125.
[76] Marques, F.O., Nogueira, F.C.C., Bezerra, F.H.R., de Castro, D.L., 2014. The Araripe Basin in NE Brazil: An intracontinental graben inverted to a high-standing horst. Tectonophysics 630, 251-264.
[75] Machek, M., Roxerová, Z., Závada, P., Silva, P.F., Henry, B., Dědeček, P., Petrovský, E., Marques, F.O., 2014. Intrusion of lamprophyre dyke and related deformation effects in the host rock salt: a case study from the Loulé diapir, Portugal. Tectonophysics 629, 165-178.
[74] Silva, P.F., Marques, F.O., Machek, M., Henry, B., Hirt, A.M., Roxerová, Z., Madureira, P., Vratislav, S., 2014. Evidence for non-coaxiality of ferrimagnetic and paramagnetic fabrics, developed during magma flow and cooling in a thick mafic dyke. Tectonophysics 629, 155-164.
[73] Marques, F.O., Mandal, N., Taborda, R., Antunes, J., Bose, S., 2014. The behaviour of deformable and non-deformable inclusions in viscous flow. Earth Science Reviews 134, 16-69.
[72] Marques, F.O., Cabral, F.R., Gerya, T.V., Zhu, G., May, D.A., 2014. Subduction initiates at straight passive margins. Geology 42, 331-334.
[71] Costa, A.C.G., Marques, F.O., Hildenbrand, A., Sibrant, A.L.R., Catita, C.M.S., 2014. Large-scale flank collapses in a steep volcanic ridge: Pico-Faial Ridge, Azores Triple Junction. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 272, 111–125.
[70] Marques, F.O., 2014. Comment on: "Are subduction zones invading the Atlantic? Evidence from the southwest Iberia margin", by Duarte et al., Geology doi:10.1130/G34100.1. Geology 42, e327.
[69] Métrich, N., Zanon, V., Créon, L., Hildenbrand, A., Moreira, M., Marques, F.O., 2014. Is the “Azores hotspot” a wetspot? Insights from the geochemistry of fluid and melt inclusions in olivine of Pico basalts. Journal of Petrology 55, 377-393.
[68] Marques, F.O., Catalão, J.C., DeMets, C., Costa, A.C.G., Hildenbrand, A., 2014. Corrigendum to "GPS and tectonic evidence for a diffuse plate boundary at the Azores Triple Junction" [Earth and Planetary Science Letters 381 (2013), 177-187]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 387, 1-3.
