Teaching

I’ve been teaching Geology for  25 years, i.e., since the year 2000, at the University of Lisbon (Geology Department, Faculty of Sciences).

During this period, I taught 18 different courses, 13 at BSc degree level, and 5 at MSc level.

I coordinated (as course “regent”) 4 courses at BSc level: Structural Geology, Marine Geology, Field Geology I and Field Geology II.

At MSc level I coordinated (as course “regent”) the following 5 courses: Structural Geology and Tectonics, Numerical and Experimental Modelling of Geological Processes, Tectonophysics, Geology of Continental Margins, and Geology of Oceanic Basins.

Between September 2015 and July 2017 I was the Director of the Earthsystems Doctoral Program comprising PhD students from the Geology and DEGGE (Geophysics) departments.

I am presently teaching…

…the following BSc Geology degree courses:

  • Structural Geology (course coordinator or “regent”, 2nd year/2nd semester);
  • Field Geology (course coordinator or “regent”, 3rd year/2nd semester);
  • Tectonics (participation in teaching theoretical and practical courses, 3rd year/2nd semester).

Here are some examples of different previous field and lab activities carried out in classes:

Tablet-chocolate boudinage
Ciências Field Geology students (2022) in one of the most amazing outcrops of tablet-chocolate boudinage in Almograve beach SW Portugal.
Analogue Modelling
Experiments running in the LATTEX Analogue modelling lab.

Analogue modelling
Comparison between a natural example (the Gloria fault dextral strike slip system cutting across the Tore-Madeira submarine mountain in NE Atlantic),  and an analogue sand-silicone model developed with undergraduate students in classes.

I also teach the following MSc Geology degree course:

  • Tectonophysics (course coordinator or “regent”, 1st year/2nd semester)

Here are some examples of different models developed in classes:

Movie above: subduction model (Underwolrd code) with top free-slip BC. Geometry (material index), temperature and viscosity outputs are depicted.

Movie above: boudinage under a coaxial strain regime.

Movie above: a semi-rigid rectangular body is deformed and rotated towards the horizontal shear plane under bulk coaxial flow.

Movie above: semi-rigid rotation under non coaxial shear flow. Semi-rigid particle rotates (and deforms) under a non-coaxial shear regime.

Geology students learn to code in python scientific language to address different tectonics and structural geology problems, as well as many others of geological interest.

Movie above: example of the output obtained from programing in Python the rotation of an inequidimensional rigid particle under bulk simple shear (Jefferey 1922 equation).

I also taught…

…the Petroleum Geoscience course – M.Sc in Petroleum Engineering offered by Heriot-Watt University and ISPG, between April 2014 and February 2020.

The 2018 Petroleum Geoscience students during a field trip to the Lusitanian Basin with colleague Rui Baptista from GALP oil company.

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