PhD Graduates

Thesis title: The Lake Towuti Drilling Project: 600 kyrs of biodiversity changes in Southeast Asia recorded through ancient sedimentary DNA genotyping

Curtin University. Graduated 2024

Thesis title: Processes leading to exceptional soft-tissue preservation in Mazon Creek (Carboniferous) concretions: A combined palaeontological, organic and inorganic geochemical approach

Curtin University. Graduated 2023

Thesis title: Recovery of the deep biosphere at the Chicxulub impact crater

Curtin University. Graduated 2023

Thesis title: Photic Zone Euxinia and Microbial Mat Development in the Early Triassic of the Perth Basin, Western Australia: Implications for Petroleum Systems

Curtin University. Graduated 2022

Thesis title: Fish Fingerprints; Signatures of Oil Contamination

Curtin University. Graduated 2022

Thesis title: The Study of Lipid Biomarkers and Contemporary Microbial Communities in Early-Eocene Sedimentary Records at Chicxulub Impact Crater

Curtin University. Graduated 2021

Thesis title: The End Cretaceous Mass Extinction Event – Recovery and Evolution of Life

Curtin University. Graduated 2021

Thesis title: Microbial ecosystems of Shark Bay embayments: assessing their functionality and resilience to potential petroleum contamination

Thesis title: Functional diversity of active microbial mat communities inferred from lipid biomarkers and metatranscriptomics

Thesis title: Compound-specific Sulfur Isotope Study of Petroleum

Thesis title: Functional ecology of calcrete aquifers in arid zone Western Australia

Curtin University. Graduated 2020

Thesis title: New Insights into the end-Triassic Mass Extinction in the Southwest UK: A Biomarker and Isotope Study

Curtin University. Graduated 2019

Thesis title: Investigations into the Molecular, Isotopic and Genomic Mechanisms behind Human Gallstone Disease

Curtin University. Graduated 2019

Thesis title: Ancient DNA Archives In Marine Sediments

Curtin University. Graduated 2018

Thesis title: Molecular and isotopic perspectives on Australian petroleum systems: Hydrocarbon fluid correlations and source rock depositional environments in the Canning and Browse basins

Curtin University. Graduated 2017

Thesis title: Novel Techniques in Organic Geochemistry applied to Australian Resources

Graduated 2017

Thesis title: Organic geochemistry and novel isotopic approaches of fluvial-deltaic petroleum systems

Curtin University. Graduated 2017

Thesis title: Early diagenetic processes associated with preservation of organic matter in concretions from the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (Germany) and modern microbialites (Australia): A combined organic and inorganic geochemical approach

Curtin University. Graduated 2016

Thesis title: The Role of Carbonaceous Material in the Formation of Macraes Orogenic Gold Deposit, New Zealand

Curtin University. Graduated 2016

Thesis title: Organic geochemistry of the Paleoproterozoic here’s your chance Pb/Zn/Ag deposit

Curtin University. Graduated 2014

Thesis title: Biomarkers and stable isotopic compositions associated with sulfide-rich ancient deposits from mass extinction events

Curtin University. Graduated 2014

Thesis title: Biogeochemical cycles (C, N, S, P and Fe) of modern and ancient microbialites (Western Australia)

Curtin University. Graduated 2014

Thesis title: Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Induan/Olenekian event of the lower Triassic and to establish the source of gas in the Perth basin, WA

Thesis title: Novel biomarker and stable isotopic approaches for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of saline and stratified ecosystems : the modern Coorong Lagoon and Devonian reefs of the Canning Basin

Curtin University. Graduated 2013

Thesis title: The use of stable isotopes for the characterisation of natural organic matter and investigation of the different organic precursors of aquatic systems

Curtin University. Graduated 2013

Thesis title: Molecular and isotope chronostratigraphy of tertiary source rocks and crude oils

Curtin University. Graduated 2011

Thesis title: δ¹³C and δD measurements of volatile organic compounds in a variety of emissions by thermal desorption compound specific isotope analysis

Curtin University. Graduated 2011

Thesis title: Evaluating the source, age, thermal history and palaeoenvironments of deposition of Australian and Western Canadian petroleum systems: compound specific stable isotopes coupled with inorganic trace elements

Curtin University. Graduated 2010

Thesis title: Organic and isotopic geochemistry of source-rocks and crude oils from the East Sirte Basin (Libya)

Curtin University. Graduated 2010

Thesis title: Biomarker distributions and stable isotopes (C, S, H) to establish palaeoenvironmental change related to the end-Permian mass extinction event

Curtin University. Graduated 2009

Thesis title: Elaboration of a kinetic model in order to predict the molecular and isotopic composition of natural gas generated during the thermal cracking of hydrocarbons

Curtin University. Graduated 2009

Thesis title: Polar constituents of oils and bitumens – new applications to Petroleum Geochemistry and (Palaeo)Biogeochemistry

Thesis title: Molecular and Isotopic characterization of leachates in water.

Curtin University. Graduated 2007

Thesis title: Stable hydrogen isotope ratios of individual hydrocarbons in sediments and petroleum

Curtin University. Graduated 2006

Thesis title: Isotopic dating and geochemical characterization of petroleum system events: case studies from the McArthur, Tarim and Sichuan Basins

Curtin University. Graduated 2019

Thesis title: A study into the effects of pyrolysis fuels, pyrolysis conditions and the identification of chemical markers in grapes and wine as smoke taint

Curtin University. Graduated: 2014

Thesis title: Application of Biological Markers to Characterize Petroleum and Source Rocks of the Southern Indus Basin

University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Pakistan / Curtin University. Graduated: 2013

Thesis title: Elemental, isotopic and molecular signatures of Early Cambrian marine sediments and a phantom petroleum system in South Australia

Adelaide University. Graduated 2012

Thesis title: Evaluating Geochemical Record of Ancient Sediments from In-Vitro Maturation of Asphaltenes and Kerogen.

University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Pakistan / Curtin University. Graduated 2011

Thesis title: Biogeochemical proxies for environmental and biotic conditions at the Permian-Triassic boundary

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Graduated: 2010

Thesis title: Geochemical applications of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in crude oils and sediments from Pakistan

University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Pakistan / Curtin University. Graduated: 2010

Thesis title: The role of pesticide metabolites and preferential flow in understanding pesticide fate in the vadose zone

University of Western Australia. Graduated 2010

Thesis title: Application of stable isotope and trace element signatures to the provenance establishment of plant derived products of forensic significance

University of Western Australia. Graduated 2010

Thesis title: Early agriculture and Holocene environments in the Yangtze river delta, China

University of Western Australia. Graduated 2007