General

South African, resident in Chile

Fluent in English, Spanish, Afrikaans; working knowledge of Dutch, German, Flemish

Education

-B.Sc. (cum laude), University of Stellenbosch (1973)

-B.Sc. Hons. (cum laude), University of Stellenbosch (1975)

-M.Sc.,  University of Stellenbosch (1977): Stratigraphy, sedimentology and structure of the Kango Group north of Oudtshoorn, C.P.

-Ph.D., Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (1985). Paleochannels and uranium mineralisation in the Main Karoo Basin of South Africa.

-Courses at University of Illinois in Chicago and MIT in Boston, U.S.A. (1984).

Employment History

-1977: Temporary Lecturer, University of Stellenboch

-1978 - 1985: Scientist - Chief Scientist, Atomic Energy Corporation of South Africa

-1985 - 1998: Senior Lecturer - Associate Professor, University of Stellenbosch.

-1999 - 2017: Associate Professor - Full Professor, University of Chile.

-2012 - 2017: Principal Researcher, Andean Geothermal Centre of Excellence (CEGA).

-2017 - 2019: Consultant, InvestSed

-2020 - Present: Fruit farmer

Work Experience

-Seven years in research applied to uranium deposits in Southern Africa and South America

-Participation in 16 major research projects in all types of sedimentary environments, resulting in 149 full-length publications (118 papers in  34 ISI journals, 23 papers in 7 non-ISI journals, 8 chapters in books), plus 2 theses and 87 conference proceedings or abstracts.

-Geological research in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Germany, Israel, Australia, Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Antarctica.

-Thirty-three years of university teaching (South Africa and Chile).

-Special research projects for 11 international exploration and mining companies.

-Training/Short courses taught: Pontíficia Universidad Católica del Perú; Centro de Investigación Oceanográfica en el Pacífico Sur Oriental (COPAS); Soquimich, Sernageomin.

International Recognition

- Ex-member of Editorial Boards of Sedimentary Geology, Andean Geology, Earth Science India. Invitations to join Editorial Boards of PeerJ, Global Journal of Marine Science, Marine Science & Engineering, and several other journals.

-Guest Editor: Special Issue of Journal of African Earth Sciences - Uranium in the Permo-Triassic Beaufort Group of the western Karoo Basin.

-Research Fellow: Geological Survey (Israel); University of Wollongong (Australia); Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (Germany).

-Hundreds of paper reviews for 32 different ISI journals and 6 non-ISI journals.

-Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing - Sedimentary Geology (Elsevier).

-H-index: 38 (Google Scholar), 36 (Research Gate), 29 (Scopus), 28 (Thomson ISI, Web of Science)

-G-index: 58 (Google Scholar).

-i10-index: 92 (Google Scholar)

- Paper reads 53,083 (Research Gate, since April 2017)

- Research Interest 2,251.8 (Research Gate)

- Papers cited 4,190 times according to Google Scholar (Research Gate: 3,687)

- Paper views (downloads) exceed 79,650 (Mendeley, up to end of November 2020)

-Project reviews for National Science Foundation (U.S.A.), European Commission (registered expert), FONDECYT (Chile), ECOS-CONICYT (Chile), PUC (Chile), FONCYT (Argentina), ANPCYT (Argentina), CONACYT (Mexico; accredited evaluator)