People

Students & collaborators

Research in this area is collaborative. Reconstructions, models and datasets are built with students and long-term co-authors across several institutions, developed together with the EarthByte Group and the GPlates project.

Groups & software

Two long-running collaborations that most of this work sits inside.

EarthByte Group

A research group at the University of Sydney building open datasets and models of Earth's plate tectonic, geodynamic and paleogeographic evolution. I was a Research Fellow with EarthByte from 2010–2019 and remain a close collaborator.

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GPlates

Open-source software for building and visualising plate tectonic reconstructions, developed by EarthByte and collaborators including the University of Sydney, Caltech and Norway's GPlates.org team. I contribute to GPlates and its Python ecosystem, see Plate tectonic reconstructions.

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PhD students

Current students I supervise or co-supervise.

Marine Geoscience

Philippe Vandenbossche

Evolution of the Seafloor of the Australian-Antarctic Southern Ocean

Commenced September 2020
Marine Geoscience

Rekha Nair Madhu Soodanan Pillai Sasilekha

The Magnetisation of Earth's Ocean Lithosphere: A new view from space (part of the ARC Future Fellowship project).

Commenced February 2025
Geodynamics

Katie Dixon

Tectonic Southern Ocean Reconstructions

Commenced July 2026

Past students will be added here in due course.

Frequent collaborators

A few of the people I work with most often across plate tectonics, geodynamics and marine geophysics.

Joanne Whittaker

IMAS, University of Tasmania — marine geophysics and ocean basin evolution.

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Jacqui Halpin

IMAS, University of Tasmania — Antarctic and Southern Ocean tectonics, geochronology.

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Maria Seton

EarthByte Group, University of Sydney — plate kinematics, subduction and back-arc evolution.

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Dietmar Müller

EarthByte Group, University of Sydney — global plate models and the GPlates project.

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Sascha Brune

GFZ Potsdam / University of Potsdam — rifting and continental breakup dynamics.

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Nicolas Flament

University of Wollongong — mantle flow, dynamic topography and deep-time geodynamics.

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Andrew Merdith

University of Leeds — deep-time full-plate reconstructions, Neoproterozoic to present.

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David Gubbins

University of Leeds / Macau University of Science and Technology — geomagnetism and satellite magnetic field modelling.

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