PhD Students
Martin Giger
Thesis Title: Trace element based thermobarometry for peridotite xenoliths from the Kaapvaal craton
Supervisor: Associate Professor Phil Janney
Contact details:
Room 309, Geological Sciences Building
Email: martinbgiger@gmail.com
Research interests: geochemical evolution of the mantle, geochemistry and ore geology
Eugene Bergh
Thesis Title: Quaternary foraminifera from the western continental margin of southern Africa
Supervisor: Associate Professor John Compton
Contact details:
Room 4th floor, Sedimentology Lab, Geological Sciences
Cell: +27 (0)21 467 7236
Email: brgeug002@myuct.ac.za
Research Interests: Neogene and Quaternary palaeoenvironmental evolution around the southern African continental margin
Organisations: Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA), Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa (PSSA
Claire Geel
Thesis Title: Diagenesis and gas potential of the organic-rich black shales, lower Ecca Group of the Karoo Supergroup
Supervisor: Associate Professor Emese Bordy
Contact details:
Room 507-5, Geological Sciences
Phone: +27 74 752 4860
Email: geel.claire@gmail.com, GLXCLA002@myuct.ac.za
Research Interests: Karoo shale gas, sedimentology, geochemistry and petrophysics
William Krummeck
Thesis Title: Digital assessment of non-marine trace fossils in the Karoo Supergroup, South Africa
Supervisor/s: Associate Professor Emese Bordy
Contact details:
Room 503, Geological Science
Ph: +27 (0)21 650 2913
Email: krmdes002@myuct.ac.za
Marvel Makhubele
Thesis Title: Sequence stratigraphy of the post-Jurassic in the Algoa and Gamtoos Basins: Implication for hydrocarbon potential in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Supervisor/s: Associate Professor Emese Bordy
Contact details:
Room 503, Geological Science
Email: mkhmar015@myuct.ac.za
Research Interests: Exploration geophysics, play-based exploration, seismic interpretation, seismic attributes, sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis
Rob Muir
Thesis Title: Stratigraphic Framework of the Kirkwood Formation in the southern Cape region, South Africa: Invertebrate-based biostratigraphy and zircon geochronology
Supervisor/s: Associate Professor Emese Bordy
Contact details:
Room 507-3, Geological Science
E-mail: MRXROB009@myuct.ac.za
B. Jaziel Nkere
Thesis Title: Kimberlites, megacrysts and peridotitic minerals from southern and central Africa: Gechemistry, petrology and diamond exploration
Supervisor: Associate Professor Phil Janney
Contact details:
Room 302, Geological Sciences
Cell: +27 (0)72 535 7122
Email: nkerej50@gmail.com
Research Interests: Kimberlites and megacrysts, hydrothermal gold mineralisation
Yemi Ogungbuyi
Thesis Title: The geochemistry of carbonatites from western South Africa and southern Namibia
Supervisor/s: Associate Professor Phil Janney and Professor Chris Harris
Contact details:
Room 606, Geological Science
Ph: +27 (0)84 342 5090
Email: priscyem@gmail.com
Research interests: Petrology of carbonatites, rare earth mineralisation
Ágnes Ódri
Thesis Title: Oxygen isotope implications for the magma origin of granitic rocks from the Ditrău Alkaline Massif (Eastern Carpathians, Romania)
Supervisor/s: Professor Chris Harris and Dr. Petrus Le Roux
Contact details:
Room 303, Geological Science
Ph: +27 21 650 2931
Email: odriagnes@yahoo.com
Research interests:
Simon Schorn
Thesis Title: Causes of high-temperature metamorphism in the Namaqua Metamorphic Complex, southern Africa
Supervisor/s: Associate Professor Johann Diener
Contact details:
Room 309, Geological Science
Ph: +27
Email: SCHSIM011@myuct.ac.za
ResearchGate link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simon_Schorn
Interests: Metamorphic petrology and thermodynamic modelling
Sichumilesanda Spelman
Thesis Title: The Geological Library of the Main Karoo Basin: A Preliminary 3-D geo-model
Supervisor/s: Associate Professor Emese Bordy
Contact details:
Room 503, Geological Science
Ph: +27 71 491 8520
Email: sanda.spelman@gmail.com
Interests: Sedimentary basins (Karoo Basin), 3D modeling, GIS and remote sensing
Organizations: Geological Society of Southern Africa, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers
Christel Tinguely
Thesis Title: Geochemistry of circum-craton eclogite xenoliths from South Africa. Comparison to their on-craton counterparts
Supervisor/s: Professor Anton le Roex
Contact details:
Rm 4.08, Geological Science
christel.tinguely@uct.ac.za
021 650 2908