Teaching & Training
Course on Lithosphere Dynamics and Topography
Dr. Daniel Garcia-Castellanos (coordinator)
Dr. Ivone Jiménez-Munt
Prof. Jaume Vergés Masip
Follow this link for the program of the entire Master.
Follow this link to find the following resources for the course:
Detailed program of the course.
Powerpoints of the seminars.
Teaching material:
River profile evolution
Uplift / erosion competition
Article pdf's
Practicums and exercises
PhD direction
Ongoing
2020-2024 Estefania Bravo Gutiérrez within project GeoCam (PGC2018-095154-B-I00) on the tectonics and geodynamics along a lithospheric transect across the Appennines and Dinarides. Advisors: J. Vergés, D. Garcia-Castellanos.
2020-2024 Wentao Zhang. Funding: China Research Council (CSC). GEO3BCN CSIC. 48 k€. Advisors: Ivone Jiménez-Munt, Montserrat Torné.
2020-2024 Yuanchao Yu. Fabric evolution and seismic anisotropy of multiphase rocks, with applications to prediction of Earth’s mantle flow. Funding: China Research Council (CSC). GEO3BCN CSIC. 48 k€. Advisors: Maria-Gema Llorens, Daniel García-Castellanos, Albert Griera (UAB)
2020-2024, José Federico Del Pozo Díaz. “Análisis integrado de la Cuenca de Antepaís Varisca (Carbonífero, NO de España)”, Universidad de Oviedo. Advisors: Óscar Antonio Merino Tomé (Universidad de Oviedo) y Jaume Vergés Masip
2020-2024 Baqin Hao. “Dynamic behaviour of salt rocks: exploring the interplay between deformation, recrystallisation and trace element transport with full-field numerical simulation. Directores: Enrique Gomez Rivas (UB), Maria Gema Llorens y Albert Griera (UAB).
Defended (after 2015)
2018-2022 PhD Hanneke Heida. “Reconstructing the topography and water level of the Mediterranean Sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis”. Within project SaltGiant (ITN Horizon2020 765256). Advisors: D. Garcia-Castellanos, I. Jiménez-Munt.
2016-2021 PhD Kittiphon Boonma ETN network Subitop. Modeling slab tear during subduction. Application to the Gibraltar Arc (W Mediterranean). Defended at University of Barcelona 2021-10-07. Advisors: D. Garcia-Castellanos, I. Jiménez-Munt.
2016-2021 PhD Ángel Valverde. Defended at University of Barcelona 2021-02-10. Numerical modeling of continental collision and intraplate deformation. Application to the Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of North Iberia. Advisors: D. Garcia-Castellanos, I. Jiménez-Munt. Funded through Spanish Gvnmt. project MITE (CGL2014-59516).
2020 Ajay Kumar. Thermal and chemical imaging of the upper mantle anomalies: application to Western Mediterranean. University of Barcelona. Thesis defense: 24/11/2020 advisors: Manel Fernàndez and J. Vergés.
2020 Mireia Peral. Dynamics of subduction systems with opposite polarity in adjacent segments: application to the Westernmost Mediterranean. University of Barcelona. Thesis defense: 03/06/2020. advisors: Manel Fernàndez and Sergio Zlotnik.
2019 David Cruset. Numerical modeling of continental collision and intraplate deformation. Application to the Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of North Iberia. University of Barcelona. Thesis defense: 12/07/2019
2015-2018 PhD Chiara Amadori. Univ. Pavia. “3D architecture and evolution of the Po Plain – Northern Adriatic Basin since the Messinian salinity crisis through Pliocene-Pleistocene time”. Currently postdoc researcher at Univ. Pavia. Defended in Pavia 2018-02-22. Advisors: Andrea di Giulio. Coadvisors: D. Garcia-Castellanos, Giovanni toscani.
2011-2016 PhD Mar Moragas. “Multidisciplinary reservoir characterization of mixed sedimentary sequences integrating field examples and numerical modelling. La Popa Basin, High Atlas Basin, and North Iberian basins”. Universitat de Barcelona. Advisor: J. Vergés and E. Playà.
2011-2016 PhD Jan Globig. “The lithospheric structure of Africa: Mapping crustal and lithospheric thickness using geoid and elevation constraints together with a thermal analysis”. Universitat de Barcelona. Advisor: M. Fernàndez and M. Torné.
2010-2015 PhD Alberto Carballo. “Geophysical and petrological characterization of the lithospheric mantle in Iberia and North Africa”. University of Barcelona. Advisor: M. Fernàndez and I. Jiménez-Munt.
2010-2015 PhD Lavinia Tunini. “The Central Asia collision zone: numerical modelling of the lithospheric structure and the present-day kinematics”. University of Barcelona. Advisor: I. Jiménez-Munt and M. Fernàndez.
Participation in European Training Networks
H2020 ITN Network project SUBITOP. Spanish IPs Manel Fernández, DGC
TopoMed. Within the Topo-Europe Eurocores program of the ESF. Started 2008. PI: Rinus Wortel. Spanish PI: Manel Fernàndez.