Research Team

Current Team Members

Research Assistant

Dorota Pietruszka, January 2024-present, M.Sc. (MUN).

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Chen Wei, February 2025-present, Ph.D. (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences). Project: Critical metals in volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits.

Sarah Speight, September 2023-present, Ph.D. (UNB). Project: Zircon petrochemistry, magmatism, and VMS deposit formation in the Superior Province.

PhD Students

Gabriel Ariza, September 2022-present, B.Sc.(Hons.) (Memorial University)
Thesis Title: Silurian Magmatism and Metallogeny of the Baie Verte Peninsula and Surrounding Region, Newfoundland Appalachians.

Alicia Escribano, September 2020-present, Ph.D. (Memorial University). Thesis title: Role of magmatism in the formation of VMS deposits in the Victoria Lake Supergroup.

Rosie Cobbett, September 2019 – present, Ph.D. (Memorial University). Thesis title: Magmatic and tectonic record of Cambrian-Ordovician rift history of the Laurentian margin of western North America (co-supervised with Luke Beranek).

Andrew Marcille, September 2015-present, Ph.D. (Memorial University).
Thesis Title: Geology and Geologists in Time and Place [interdisciplinary PhD program; Co-supervised with Dean Bavington (Geography) and Steve Pyne (Arizona State University).

MSc Students

Julie Deriaz, January 2025-present, M.Sc. (Memorial University).
Thesis title: Mineralogical and geochemical evaluation of critical metals in mine tailings in Canada. 

Miguel Avila, September 2024-present, M.Sc. (Memorial University).
TThesis title: Mineralogy and genesis of critical metal-rich mineralization from the Great Burnt Lake copper deposit, Newfoundland Appalachians. 

Sarah Craig, May 2022-present, B.Sc.(Hons.)(Queen’s University)
Thesis Title: Vein mineralogy and origins of sulfide-sulfosalt-precious metal mineralization in the Whisker Valley Cu-Au mineralization, Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland [resident at Queen’s University and co-supervised by Dan Layton-Matthews].

Lokman Gümüş, September 2021-present, M.Sc. (Memorial University). Thesis title: Zircon as a petrological indicator of felsic magmatism in VMS deposits.