Scientific Organizers

Prof. Peter Doyle, BSc PhD Cgeol FGS, is Visiting Professor in Geosciences at the University College London   

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Geology Today and Lethaia and has more than 150 published papers, books and journals within the areas of geology, environmental geology, military geology & geoharzards and palaeontology.

Dr. Duncan Pirrie, BSc PhD FGS, is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Cambourne School of Mines.

He is the Deputy Editor of Geology Today and a specialist consultant providing expert advice in applied geology and mineralogy projects.

Dr. Craig Barrie, BSc PhD FGS, is a mineralogist with expertise in sulfide mineral precipitation and deformation, primarily through microstructural analysis (EBSD) and stable isotope geochemistry.

He is a council member of the Mineralogical Society of the UK and Ireland and a member of the editorial board of Geology Today.

Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang is Senior Lecturer and NERC Advanced Fellow at Royal Holloway University of London, and Senior Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Munster, Germany.

He is a palaeontologist with interests in the Carboniferous Coal Forests, the evolution of reptiles, ancient climates, fossil wood, and the Cretaceous forests of Antarctica. Howard is also a passionate science communicator and works as a freelance science journalist for BBC News Online. He is a  member of the editorial board of Geology Today.

Dr Jamie Pringle, CGeol FGS, is lecturer at the University of Keele.

In the past, he has worked as a research fellow at Liverpool University and as an Environmental Project Geophysicist within Reynolds Geosciences Ltd. Jamie Pringle’s BSc (Hons) Geology was obtained from Royal Holloway College, London (1996) and his industry-funded PhD from Heriot-Watt University (2003), under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Corbett was entitled: Data acquisition, integration and visualization of 3D meso- to macro-scale sedimentary architectures of petroleum reservoir outcrop analogues.

Jamies Pringle’s publication lists consists of more than 30 articles, book chapters and other forms of publications. He is a member of the editorial board of Geology Today.

Colin Prosser, BSc Ph.D Principal Geologist, Natural England, works for Natural England identifying, conserving, managing and promoting the nationally important highlights of England’s geology. Many of these sites are protected as Sites of Special Scientific Interest and include fossil and mineral rich sites that have yielded specimens vital to scientific research and education.  

A essential part of Colin Prosser’s job is trying to balance the need for fossil and mineral collecting with the need to conserve the sites that contain them for future research and education.  He has published papers on Jurassic brachiopods and on the conservation and management of fossil and mineral rich sites. Colin Prosser is a member of the editorial board of Geology Today.

Dr Jon Radley, BSc MSc MSc PgDip PhD, is Keeper of Geology at the Warwickshire Museum and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.

He has extensive experience from the museum sector with an expertise in the understanding and interpretation of science. He has published a number of papers on the Lower and Middle Jurassic strata of central England and the non-marine Lower Cretaceous strata of southern England. He is a member of the editorial board of Geology Today.

Hugh Rollinson, BA PhD, is Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Derby  

His interests are in mineralogy, igneous and metamorphic petrology and geochemistry, and his special focus is on the Early history of the earth. He is the author of two textbooks, one on Geochemistry, the other on the Early earth. 

He has worked in a geological survey in West Africa and in Universities in the UK, Zimbabwe and the Gulf. He is a member of the editorial board of Geology Today.