João C. Duarte
Ass. Professor in Tectonics at the University of Lisbon
Editorial Section Lead at Communications Earth & Environment
President of the Tectonics and Structural Geology Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Some Recent Papers
- Exo-Geoscience Perspectives Beyond Habitability @ Space Science Reviews
- Volcanic gas plumes’ effect on the spectrum of Venus @ Icarus
- Tracking a common mantle source: From southwest Iberia to the Madeira-Canarias Islands @ Geology
- Seismic evidence for oceanic plate delamination offshore Southwest Iberia @ Nature Geosciences
- Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic @ Geology
- Subduction initiation triggered the Caribbean large igneous province @ Nature Communications
Ongoing Projects
- Tectono-volcanism across the solar system: Venus, Europa and Io. Under the scope of Diogo Quirino PhD
- Origin of life. Under the scope of Carlos Ramos MSc thesis.
- Biogeodynamics. COST-Action | CA23150 - pan-EUROpean BIoGeodynamics network (EUROBIG) Link
- Geosciences of Exoplanets | Special Issue following an ISSI workshop.
- Geodynamics of the Macaronesia, GEMMA project funded by FCT, start 2022
- Climate of the Archean: led by Mattias Green @ Bangor, funded by the Leverhulm Trust, include a PhD and Post Doc, start 2022, Link
- Lithospheric structure of the Southwest Iberia Margin - LISA: led by Marta Neres, funded by FCT, started 2021
- Subduction Initiation at Magma-Poor margins: An Atlantic Perspective: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship led by Patricia Cadenas, start 2022
- Local amber and exchange networks in the prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula: characterization of Portuguese sources as a global case study, IberAmber project funded by FCT 2023.
- Subduction invasion of the Atlantic: with Nicolas Riel at Mainz University
- Ophiolite emplacement: with Filipe Rosas and the PhD candidate Afonso Gomes
