Eduard Roca Abella

Lecturer at the Universitat de Barcelona


My research lines are focused mainly in:

  1. Analysis and kinematic evolution of salt structures in inversion tectonic systems

  2. Extensive and contractional fault systems characterization

  3. 3D reconstruction of geologic reservoirs


Studies

1984 Degree in Geology from the University of Barcelona
1992 Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Barcelona

Scholarships and professional status

1990-1991 (october – march) Assistant L.R.U. 2. Ciclo Dpt. Geologia Dinàmica, Geofísica i Paleontlogia.

1991-1992 (genuary- october) Assistant L.R.U. 1. Ciclo Dpt. Geologia Dinàmica, Geofísica i Paleontlogia.

1992 (april-october) Scolarship MEC-MRT Institut Français du Pétrole

1992-1995 Assistant L.R.U. 2. Ciclo Dpt. Geologia Dinàmica, Geofísica i Paleontlogia.

1995-2000 Lecturer B4  Dpt. Geologia Geodinàmica i Geofísica

2001-2001 (april-september) Lecturer  Dpt. Geologia Geodinàmica i Geofísica

2001-present : Lecturer Dpt. Geodinàmica i Geofísica


Others

1987-1991  Member of the Grupo Español de Sedimentología lacustre (that collaborates with the project UNESCO PIGC n. 219CH.)

1989 Premi Extraordinari de Llicenciatura. Universitat de Barcelona

1994 Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat. Universitat de Barcelona

1994- present: Researcher at Grup de Qualitat de Geodinàmica i Anàlisi de Conques

1992-1995 Member of the project UNESCO IGCP-Project 324 (Global paleoenvironmental archives in lacustrine systems).

1994-1997 Member of the project European Science Foundation EUROPROBE (subprojecte 'Quantitaty modelling of basin evolution and lateral variations in the Fold/thrust belt and Foreland of the Pannonian/Carpathian system').

1995-2000: Member of the project UNESCO IGCP-Projet 369 (Comparative evolution of Peri-Tethyan Rift Basins).

2001-2004: Coordinator of the TRANSMED Project del Mediterranean Consortium for the '32nd International Geological Congress'.

2002-2004: Member of the editorial staff of the journal 'Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France'.

2002: Member of the editorial staff of the journal “Acta Geologica Hispanica'.

2003-2005: Distinció per a la Promoció de la Recerca Universitària. 'Joves Investigadors'. Generalitat de Catalunya (resolució UNI/2117/2003 de 7 de juliol).

2003-2006: Member of the editorial staff of the journal 'Geologica Acta'.

2006-2008: Coordinator of the Màster interuniversitari UB-UAB de “Geologia”.

2009- present: Member of the steering comitee of the Institut de Recerca Geomodels.

2011- present: Coordinator of the Màster interuniversitari UB-UAB de “Geologia i geofísica de reservoris”.

Dept. Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà

Facultat de Ciències de la Terra

Universitat de Barcelona

C/Martí i Franquès s/n

Barcelona 08028

Spain


Telf: (34) 93 4035912

Fax: (34) 93 4021340

eduardroca[a]ub.edu

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