I am a Professor and Western Australian Fellow at the Centre for Exploration Targeting at The University of Western Australia.

I studied up to MSc level in the UK, then moved to the USA to do a PhD, went to Melbourne to do a Postdoc and take up a teaching and research position at Monash University before moving to Toulouse, France where I had a position withe the Institute de Recherche pour le Developpement, and most recently came to Perth in 2013.

My scientific interests revolve around microstructure studies (the Elle platform), integration of geology and geophysics in 3D (the Loop/MinEx CRC project), and the tectonics and metallogenesis of the West African and Guyanese Cratons (WAXI & SAXI). My recently completed Western Australian Fellowship was focused on improving the links between geological and geophysical data analysis in 3D via analysis of the geological and topological uncertainty. 

I lead the WAXI & SAXI Projects, and co-lead the Project 6 Automated 3D Geological Modelling Project of the MinEx CRC with Dr Mark Lindsay.

Tectonics and Metallogenesis of the West African Craton

• Project
• Project Publications
• Overview Video

Tectonics and Metallogenesis of North-East South America

• Project
• Paramaribo Conference 2019

3D Geological Modelling

• Project
• About 3D Geological Modelling
• Atlas of Structural Geophysics
• Noddy Modelling Software
• ARC ITTC DARE: Data analytics for Resources and Environments

Microstructure Simulation

• Project
• Project Publications
• YouTube Channel
• Online Microstructure Course

The WAXI and SAXI projects are primarilly funded by AMIRA Global industry consortiums, and you can hear us discuss this project on the Exploration Radio podcast. The MinEx CRC is a partnership between industry and the Australian Government. The DARE ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre brings together a diverse range of industry partners to work on analysing risk in a natural science context. I am also involved in a now-cpmpleted MRIWA industry/state government collaboration on the Paterson Orogen, and a follow-up project related to numerical and analogue modelling of Basins which received ARC and MRIWA funding, with further industry support.

I am involved in teaching microstructures and thegeological interpretation of geophsyical datasets.

I regularly teach a course to professionals on the geological interpretation of regional geophysical datasets.

Click here to watch a video on the Capacity Building activities of WAXI.

 In 2020 along with Nicolas Thebaud and Corinne Debat, we established Agate Project Ltd a not-for-profit company that offers a range of education opportunities for professionals, researchers and students based in Africa in the field of earth and planetary sciences.

English, French

My recent research interests have included codeveloping a series of Open Source QGIS plugins to meet the needs of users who struggle with stand-alone Python codes:

Map2Loop Analytics withing QGIS (extract informaiton from geological maps to feed LoopStructural 3D modelling code)

 https://github.com/Loop3D/qgis-loopplugin

Tomofast-x-q QGIS Plugin (helper plugin to create input files and run Tomofast-x inversion code)

https://github.com/TOMOFAST/tomofast-x-q

Structural Geophysics Tools (simple processing of potential field and other geophysics grids)

https://github.com/swaxi/SGTool

Geol-QMAPS (QGIS Digital mapping aide for use with Geol-QMAPS QFIELD template)

https://github.com/swaxi/GEOL-QMAPS