John Wheeler's postgraduate supervision

Last revised 21 Feb 2019

Ph.D. students

Ricardo Tomás (Benson, Storey, Wheeler) 2016-  "Stick‐slip mechanics in active fault zones"
Joe Aslin (E. Mariani, J. Wheeler) 2015-     "The deformation of micas and its implications for the strength of the Earth’s crust: a study in the Italian Alps"
Joe Gardner (J. Wheeler, E. Mariani) 2014-      "Links between metamorphism and deformation in feldspar at mid-crustal conditions"
Tsvetomila Mateeva (N. Kusznir, Wolff, Wheeler, Manatschal) 2014-2018     "Mantle Serpentinisation, carbon and life"
John Bedford (J. Wheeler, D. Faulkner, E. Mariani) 2013-2017 "The kinetics and mechanics of a dehydrating system and the deformation of porous rock"
John MacDonald (with E. Mariani, K. Goodenough, S. Harley and Q. Crowley) 2008- "The effects of overprinting on rock fabrics and isotopic ages: the Lewisian Complex as a case study"
David McNamara (with D. Prior) 2005-2009 "How do eclogites deform in subduction and collision zones? - an Alpine study"
Mark Pearce (with D. Prior) 2005-2009 "Microstructural constraints on the Tectonothermal Evolution of the Lewisian Gneiss, NW Scotland"
Angela Halfpenny (with D. Prior, principal supervisor) 2002-2007 Ph.D. "Recrystallization microstructures and mechanisms in quartzites and marbles"
Nick Seaton (with D. Prior, principal supervisor, and A. Howe, Corus) 2002-2006 Ph.D. "Mechanisms of nucleation during recrystallization in steels"
Ruth Foreman (with D. Prior) 2000-2004 Ph.D. "Norwegian Eclogite Microstructure"
Gareth Seward (with D. Prior, principal supervisor, and R. Pond) 1999-2004 Ph.D. "SEM characterisation of diffusionless processes"
Heather Sheldon (with M. Cheadle (Wyoming)) 1999-2003 Ph.D. "Numerical Modelling of Reactive Fluid Flow and Deformation in Geological Systems " Find out more
Lisa Worrell (with D. Prior, M. Cheadle) 1998-2002 Ph.D. "The origin of igneous cumulates: integrated studies of peridotites from the Western layered Series of the Rum layered intrusion "
Tamsin Lapworth (with D. Prior) 1997-2002 Ph.D. "The deformation of monomineralic and bi-mineralic rocks"
Michael Elliott (with M. Cheadle, principal supervisor) 1994-1998 Ph.D. "The three-dimensional numerical simulation of crystallizing media "
Patrick Trimby (with Dr. D. Prior, principal supervisor) 1994-1998 Ph.D. "Quantifying microstructures - the development and application of a new technique to quartzitic shear zones"
Caroline Pickles (with Dr. S. Kelley, Open University) 1993-1997 Ph.D. "Constraints on the Structural and Metamorphic Evolution of Tectonic Contacts using 40Ar/39Ar Laserprobe Techniques: the Sesia Zone, Italian Western Alps"
Emma Postlethwaite 1991-1997 Ph.D. "The structural and metamorphic evolution of eclogite and greenschist facies units: Sesia Lanzo zone, Western Italian Alps"
Joanna Banks (with N. Kusznir, principal supervisor) 1992-1996 Ph.D. "Nucleation of magma-driven fractures in the asthenospheric mantle"
Lee Mangan (with D. Prior and R. Pond) 1991-1996 Ph.D. "Equilibrium and disequilibrium aspects of contact metamorphism: the Ross of Mull granite aureole, Scotland"

M.Sc. and M.Phil. students