Summary
PhD student within the Basins Research Group investigating layer-bound faults offshore Israel using seismic and wireline data.
Supervised by Prof. Chris Jackson and Dr Rebecca Bell from Imperial College, Dr Yizhaq Makovsky from the University of Haifa, and Dr Josh Steinberg from Ratio Oil Exploration
Previously I have been working on salt-tectonics projects in the eastern Mediterranean, Gulf of Mexico, and the North Sea.
BIOGRAPHY
2020 - Present: Postgraduate Researcher (PhD), Imperial College London
2018-2019: MSc Petroleum Geoscience, Imperial College London
2015-2018: BSc Geology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
awards & scholarships
2020: Anne Seagrim Accommodation Scholarship
2020: Ratio Oil Exploration funding
PREVIOUS RESEARCH PROJECTS
2020: Research Assistant Independent Project - Intra-salt deformations as evidence for Permian salt flow in the Zechstein Super Group, Central North Sea
2019: MSc Project - Structural Evolution and Kinematic Restoration of Salt Structures in an Extensional Domain Offshore Gulf of Mexico: Potential Implication for Shallow Hazard Analysis
2018: BSc Project - 3D Analysis of the Relationship Between Giant Depression, Salt Tectonics and Gas Migration at the Eastern Mediterranean.
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT
Wireline Petrophysics - (MSc Postgraduates) - Dr Peter Fitch
Wytch Farm Field Development Project (MSc Postgraduates) - Dr Gary Hampson
Publications
Conference papers
Joffe A., Jackson C.A-L, Pichel L. (2020) Salt Carbonate Interaction on the West Central Shelf, Offshore UK. Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting, Hull
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2020: Research Assistant, Imperial College London
2016 - 2018 - Research Assistant, Geological Survey of Israel