Jaume Vergés
Researcher at Institut de Geosciences Barcelona (Geo3Bcn) from the Spanish Research Council (CSIC)
Jaume Vergés Masip is a structural geologist with a Ph.D. received at the University of Barcelona and with extensive experience in industry and scientific research, director of 9 PhD Thesis and authoring 213 scientific publications (+ 157 in SCI journals - Scopus). He is coauthoring these publications with more than 350 other national and international scientists from both academia and industry.
He is co-leader of the Group of Dynamics of the Lithosphere (GDL) at Geosciences Barcelona (Geo3Bcn), CSIC [previously named Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera)
Research on Tectonics-Sedimentology, Geophysics and Numerical Modeling applied to orogenic systems (both continental collisions and subduction-related orogens and foreland basins) as well as extensional settings and passive margins at different scales are his main objectives. The multidisciplinarity to solve complex geodynamic scenarios is his main approach as well as the use of our own methodology and numerical codes.
Most of his work, trying to answer geological and geodynamic problems, is focussed within the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic system, from the Western Iberia to the Eastern Himalaya (Pyrenees, Alps, Betic-Rif, Atlas, Taurides, Zagros in Kurdistan, Zagros in Iran, Kopeth Dagh, Tien Shan, Himalaya-Tibet) as well as in the Central and Western Mediterranean domains and their transition to the Atlantic (both onshore and offshore).
Working Areas
Published studies in areas with red boxes and non-published studies in regions with orange boxes.
The long-term studies on the Zagros Fold Belt, the Pyrenees Fold and Thrust Belt, the Atlas salt-related rifting, and the Betic-Rif subduction-related orogen are described in more detail.
Red boxes: published research
Orange boxes: ongoing research
The Group of Dynamics of the Lithosphere is a group of researchers nucleated in 1998 at the Geosciences Barcelona –Geo3Bcn-CSIC– (previously named Inst. Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, ICTJA), incorporating researchers from different institutes and countries united by their interest on lithospheric-scale processes and their interaction with processes occurring on the Earth's surface.
One particularity of the GDL is the 20-years continuous research collaboration with Industry (e.g., Statoil, Total, Repsol, DNO, Enresa) during which we had a very fruitful scientific exchange and allowed to contract +32 pre-docs and post-docs from Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, England, Poland, Argentina, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, India.
Our objectives are:
to determine the structure and properties of the crust and lithosphere
to study the long-term lithospheric evolution coupling shallow- and deep-seated processes
to develop 2D and 3D numerical geodynamic models
Address
Jaume Vergés i Masip (Research Professor) jverges@geo3bcn.csic.es
Group of Dynamics of the Lithosphere (GDL)
Geosciences Barcelona, Geo3Bcn, CSIC
Lluis Solé i Sabarís s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Tel- +34 93 4095410 (ext. 241)
Google Scholar – Research Gate – GDL – GEO3BCN-CSIC
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-4467-5291
