Enrique Gomez-Rivas

Sedimentary Petrology, Structural Geology, Geofluids, Energy Transition

Biography

2020-2024: “Ramón y Cajal” Research Fellow, at the University of Barcelona. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

Chair of IUGS-TecTask (Tectonics and Structural Geology Commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences) (2020-2024).
Member of the founding executive committee of the International Society for Structural Geology and Tectonics (IASGT) (2022-2024).
Member of the executive committee of the European Society for Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics (DRT-Society) (2022-2024).
Academic editor of Minerals (2019-present).
Programme co-director of the MSc in Science and Integrated Management of Water (2021-present).
Honorary Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen (2019-present).

2018-2019: “Beatriu de Pinós” Research Fellow, at the University of Barcelona. Funded by the Beatriu de Pinós programme (EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Cofund and Catalan Government).

Treasurer of IUGS-TecTask (2016-2020).
Associate editor of Marine and Petroleum Geology (2016-2019).
Guest editor of the Journal of Structural Geology (2017-2019).
Guest editor of Geofluids (2019-2020).

2014-2019: Lecturer in Geology and Petroleum Geology, at the University of Aberdeen.

- Treasurer of IUGS-TecTask (2016-2020).
- Associate editor of Marine and Petroleum Geology (2016-2019).
- Guest editor of the Journal of Structural Geology (2017-2019).

2010-2014: Postdoctoral research fellow (Jan 2010 – June 2014), as well as Privatdozent (Jan 2014 – June 2014), at the University of Tübingen. Funded by DGMK – Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Erdöl, Erdgas und Kohle (German Society for Petroleum and Coal Science and Technology), ExxonMobil Production Germany, GDF SUEZ E&P Germany, RWE Dea AG and Wintershall.

“Habilitation” (venia legendi for the German university system) (Jan 2014). Thesis entitled: “Rock alteration by hydrothermal fluids: fracture formation, sealing and fault-controlled dolomitization”.

2008-2009: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Funded by ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company.

Part-time teaching fellow (2008-2009) at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spanish Open University).
Research intern (Sep-Dec 2009) at ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company (Houston, USA).

2005-2008: PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Cum laude PhD degree (highest possible grade). Thesis entitled: “Localization of deformation in ductile and anisotropic materials: field, experimental and numerical study”. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology.

Research stay (Apr-Jul 2006) at the University of Tübingen.
Part-time teaching fellow (2006-2008) at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spanish Open University).

2003-2005: MSc at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Matricula d’honor MSc degree (highest possible grade). Thesis entitled: “Shear bands in anisotropic materials: analogue modelling in coaxial deformation conditions”. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology.

Research stay (May-Jun 2004) at the University of Saint Andrews.

1997-2002: Study of Geology at the University of Zaragoza. Licenciatura (equivalent to MSc) in Geology.

Erasmus grant 2000-2001 at Oxford Brookes University
Seneca grant 2001-2002 at the University of Salamanca