Summary
Research: I am interested in most aspects of Earth and planetary evolution. I have worked to understand the history of Earth's mantle, its lithosphere, and planetary surfaces. I have recently been working on problems related to mapping and interpreting the history of life on Earth and the composition of drainage basins. My work focuses on developing new datasets, theory and computational techniques to address these problems across the scales of interest and to make useful predictions about, for example, the distribution of natural resources.
Topics of interest: Geophysics, geology, geomorphology, palaeobiology, inverse and spectral techniques, fieldwork, tectonics, structural geology, geochemistry, basin analysis, stratigraphy, sedimentology, eustasy.
Teaching: Basin Analysis, Continental Tectonics, field courses (Apennines, Oman). I am always looking for new PhD, MSc and MSci students to join our group.
Academic positions and education:
2014-Present Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Earth Science, Imperial College London
2014 Junior Research Fellow, Imperial College London
2010-2014 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge
2006-2010 PhD Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge
2003-2006 BSc Geology, University of Durham
Publications
Journals
Roberts GG, Wani O, 2024, A theory of stochastic fluvial landscape evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol:480, ISSN:1364-5021
Spurin C, Roberts GG, O'Malley CPB, et al., 2023, Pore-Scale Fluid Dynamics Resolved in Pressure Fluctuations at the Darcy Scale, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol:50, ISSN:0094-8276
Basilone L, Roberts GG, de Almeida NM, et al., 2023, Cretaceous to Recent tectono-sedimentary history and subsidence of the Barreirinhas, Ceara and Potiguar Basins, Brazilian Equatorial Margin, Basin Research, ISSN:0950-091X
Okwara IC, Hampson GJ, Whittaker AC, et al., 2023, Source‐to‐sink mass‐balance analysis of an ancient wave‐influenced sediment routing system: Middle Jurassic Brent Delta, Northern North Sea, offshore UK and Norway, Basin Research, Vol:35, ISSN:0950-091X, Pages:1555-1589
Morris M, Lipp A, Roberts G, 2023, Towards inverse modelling of landscapes using the Wasserstein distance, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol:50, ISSN:0094-8276, Pages:1-8