LEARNING & TEACHING SUMMARy

Teaching resources
At USyd
• http://www.geosci.usyd.edu.au/users/prey/Teaching/Teach.html

Collection of Sketchup 3-D interactive geological model for teaching
• https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/user.html?id=1151977671192710697351083&nav=models

Patrice's Structural Geology course on iTunes U
• https://itunesu.itunes.apple.com/enroll/DST-C5E-593

Patrice's interactive iBook Introduction to Structural Geology
• https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/introduction-to-structural-geology/id1085911016?mt=13

Patrice's interactive iBook Introduction to Tectonophysics

https://books.apple.com/au/book/introduction-to-tectonophysics/id1439863788


Undergraduate Teaching
GEOS-3101/3801- Earth's Mantle to Surface Dynamics
GEOS-2124/2914- Earth's History and the Biosphere


Honours and Postgraduate Teaching
Computational Tectonics


Supervision of research students

• Yinbing Zhu with Dr Salles as co-supervision.

• Eric Wang with Dr Chatzaras as co-supervision.

• Puqing Li  co-supervision with Dr Chatzaras as main-supervisor.

• Utpal Singh  co-supervision with Dr Chatzaras as main-supervisor.

• Yahya Alqahtani  co-supervision with Dr Chatzaras as main-supervisor.


Former PhD students - Where are they now:

• 2023: Dr Youseph (Joe) Ibrahim: Lecturer, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia.

• 2020: Dr Ömer Bodur: ZJU100 Young Professor, Faculty of Geology, Zheijang University, People Republic of China.

• 2020: Dr Rhiannon Garrett: Senior Scientist at Water Technology, Sydney, Australia.

• 2019: Dr Xuesong Ding: Research Assistant Professor at the Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas, USA.

• 2019: Dr Amy I'Anson: Geologist at Woodside Energy, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

• 2019: Dr Luke Mondy: IT expert, Audinate, Sydney, Australia.

• 2015: Dr Megan Korchinski: Associate Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
• 2014: Dr Camille François: Postdoc researcher at the University of Liège (Belgium).
• 2012: Dr Andew Bray: General Manager - Winmar Resources.
• 2009: Dr Nicolas Flament: Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
• 2007: Dr Guillaume Duclaux: Associate Professor at the University of Nice France.
• 2006: Dr Nicolas Thébaud: Director of the Center for Exploration Targetting, University of Western Australia.


Master students
• 2013: Jonathan Poh: Research Fellow (Geology) at Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
• 2012: Charmaine Thomas: Senior Geologist at the Geological Survey Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

 


Honours students

• 2025: Penny Beltran-Rehberg

• 2024: Kelly Zhao

• 2022: Eric Wang

• 2021: Demetri Advalis

• 2021: Emily Benjamin
• 2017: Kurt Steffens
• 2017: Jo Tobin
• 2016: Bailey Payten
• 2015: Nikita Golkin
• 2015: Luke Hardiman
• 2014: Rhiannon Garrett, best Honours research in geology and geophysics
• 2012: Andrew Merdith
• 2011: Adrian Nelson
• 2011: Luke Mondy, best Honours research
• 2010: Aaron Tyler

• 2009: Jason Carr

• 2008: Gemma Robert

• 2008: Michael Rothery
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