EDUCATION

10/88 - 1/93
Ph.D. Geology (January 1993), University College London, U.K.

10/85 - 7/88
B.Sc. (Hons.) Geology, Class: Second (Division 1), University of Durham, U.K.
Includes the John W. Most Fieldwork Award.

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

7/08 - present
Research Scientist, University of Arizona, USA

7/07 - 6/08
Associate Research Scientist, Yale University, USA

5/03 - 6/07
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, USA

1/02 - 4/03
Geological Consultant (low temperature thermochronologic analysis), Bochum, Germany.

9/98 - 12/01
Research Fellow (German Research Foundation Scholarship), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

11/93 - 8/98
Research Assistant, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

1/93 - 11/93
Research Assistant, University College London, U.K.

RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED

11/11-10/16: NSF Continental Dynamics (EAR #1109336): Collaborative Research: Central Anatolian Tectonics (CD-CAT): Surface to mantle dynamics during collision to escape: Proposing Institutions: University of Minnesota (Lead Institution), University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Missouri.

7/09 - 6/11: NSF EAR Instrumentation & Facilities (EAR #0929922): Acquisition of microscope and automated stage system for fission-track analysis, Lead PI: S. Thomson (University of Arizona).

6/09 - 5/11: NSF Antarctic Earth Sciences (ANT #0838722): Collaborative Research: Erosion History and Sediment Provenance of East Antarctica from Multi-method Detrital Geo- and Thermochronology, Lead PIs: P. Reiners, S. Thomson (University of Arizona), S. Hemming (Columbia).

2/08 - 1/09: NSF Antarctic Earth Sciences (ANT #0816934): Collaborative Research: SGER: Triple-dating (Pb-FT-He) of Antarctic Detritus and the Origin of the Gamburtsev Mountains, Lead PIs: P. Reiners (University of Arizona), S. Thomson (Yale).

9/07 - 8/09: NSF Tectonics (EAR #0635923): Collaborative Research: Lithospheric weakening, deep crustal flow and the initiation of orogenesis at a noncollisional convergent margin in the Andes, Lead PIs: Keith Klepeis (University of Vermont - lead institution), Stuart Thomson (Yale), thermochronology.

7/06 - 6/07: NSF Continental Dynamics (EAR #0607605): Collaborative Research: Uplift and faulting at the transition from subduction to collision - a field and modeling study of the Calabrian Arc (Lead PI Thermochronology Section). Proposing Institutions: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Yale University, University of Washington, University of California - Berkeley.

8/05 - 7/07: NSF Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics, Tectonics (EAR #447140): Collaborative Research: Glacial erosion in the Patagonian Andes: Testing the buzzsaw. Lead PIs: Jonathan Tomkin (LSU) and Stuart Thomson (Yale) together with co-PIs Profs. M. Brandon and P. Reiners (Yale).

9/98 - 8/01: German Research Foundation Habilitation Scholarship (Th 573/2-1 and Th 573/2-2). Denudation history of the overriding plate in response to the subduction of an active mid-ocean ridge in the region of the Chile Triple Junction (Aysén Province, Chile).

3/98 - 2/01: German Research Foundation (Sto 196/11-1,2): Fission-track investigations of the denudation and cooling history in the region of the Chile triple junction and the Liquiñe-Ofqui fault (southern Chile). Co-PI with Prof. B. Stöckhert and Dr. M. Brix (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Arizona
Antarctichron Workshop, June 2011: Instructor
Helium Dating Workshop (HeDWaAZ), June 2007: Instructor

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (in German)
Neotectonics (Lecture Course); An introduction to geological maps (Lecture Course and Practical); Field course in structural geology (Germany); Supervision of masters degree geological mapping (Moine Thrust, Scotland); Supervision of student fieldwork (Geological mapping, Crete, European Alps; Introductory course for geography students, Germany).

University College London, U.K.
Geodynamics (Lecture course as stand-in); Supervision of final year mapping projects (Moine Thrust, Scotland); Practical and fieldwork supervision (Neotectonics; Geological mapping, Cyprus).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Geochronology:
Over 20 years of experience with fission track analysis. Establishment of fission-track facilities at the University of Arizona and Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, management of facilities at Yale University. Over 8 years experience with (U-Th)/He thermochronometry. Over 3 years experience in U-Pb laser ablation MC-ICPMS dating. Development and application of single-grain triple-dating (fission-track, (U-Th)/He, U-Pb) in detrital zircon and apatite. Development of routine LA-MC-ICPMS U-Pb dating of apatite.

Interaction between Erosion, Tectonics, Climate and Landscape Evolution:
The influence, response times, and quantification of long-term erosion processes in the shaping of both active and ancient mountain ranges.

Regional Tectonics, Tectonic Geomorphology, Structural Geology, and Geodynamics:
Syn- and post-orogenic cooling and exhumation. The nature, rates and timing of footwall unroofing of extensional detachment faults. Using low temperature thermochronology to establish the nature of tectonic contacts.

Sedimentary Provenance Studies:
Combining multiple geochronological techniques on detrital minerals to establish provenance, stratigraphic and metamorphic ages in sedimentary rocks. Using detrital thermochronology to constrain the thermal and exhumational history of mountain belts and subglacial erosion as recorded in the syn-orogenic sedimentary record.

OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Fellow of the Geological Society of London (since 1993)
Member of the Geological Society of America (since 1994)
Member of the American Geophysical Union (since 1994)

SOME COLLABORATORS FROM THE PAST FEW YEARS