CURRICULUM VITAE: Guy Simpson
Lecturer (Chargé d’Enseignement)
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Geneva
13 rue des Maraı̂chers
CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland
Tel. 022 379 66 15
guy.simpson@unige.ch
PERSONAL INFORMATION
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Guy Simpson
16th August, 1970, New Zealand
New Zealand and Swiss (double nationality)
Chemin Frank-Thomas 56 bis, CH-1223 Cologny, Switzerland
Married to Katja Petrini (Swiss)
Luca (11.11.2002), Lara (3.8.2004), Fabio (7.3.2006)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research focuses on how Earth’s surface evolves in response to deformation,
erosion, sedimentation and climate change. I am interested in the functioning
of sediment routing systems from source to sink, how mountain ranges and sedimentary basins form and how climate interacts with deformation and surface
processes.
Research topics of interest include:
• Landscape evolution
• Earth surface signalling systems
• Foreland basins
• Mountain building
• Extreme events
This research involves the development and investigation of dynamic numerical
models combined with field studies in active orogens.
CURRICULUM VITAE: Guy Simpson
POSITIONS HELD
University of Geneva, Section of Earth and Environmental Sciences
• 2007-present Chargé d’Enseignement
ETH Zürich
• 2002-2006
• 2000-2002
Oberassistent (groups of Prof. Sean Willett and Prof. Philip Allen)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (group of Prof. Philip Allen)
Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP), Paris
• 1998-1999
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (group of Prof. Yves Guéguen)
• 1999-2000
ATER (Engagement en qualité d’attaché temporaire d’enseignement
et de recherche)
Etheridge, Henley & Williams Geoscience Consultants, Perth, Australia.
• 1994 (6 months)
Geological consultant
BHP Petroleum, Melbourne, Australia.
• 1992 (3 months)
Geological consultant
EDUCATION
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 2006
Habilitation in Natural Science
Thesis:
Three Dimensional Interactions between Tectonics
and Surface Processes
Jury:
Prof. J.-P. Burg, Prof. P. Tackley,
Prof. S. Willett, Prof. J. Braun
• 1995-1998
Doctor of Natural Science (PhD)
Thesis:
The Role of the Fluid Phase during Deformation and
Low-Grade Metamorphism
Supervisors:
Dr. Alan B. Thompson and Dr. Jamie Connolly
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
• 1994
Master of Natural Science (MSc)
Thesis:
A Study of fluid flow and deformation in the Renegar
Glacier region, Southern Victoria Land, Antartica
Supervisors:
Dr. Dave Craw and Dr. Peter Koons
• 1992
Bachelor of Natural Science with 1st class Honours (BSc Hon)
Thesis:
Quaternary evolution of the Alpine Fault zone,
Paringa, South Westland, New Zealand
Supervisors:
Dr. Richard Norris and Dr. Alan Cooper
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STUDENT SUPERVISION
• Supervisor of master student Fabian Boujon (UNIGE) working on the
dynamics of granular flows (2012-2013).
• Supervisor of master student Mickael Heiniger (UNIGE) working on modeling the risks associated with dam breaks in Switzerland (2012-2013).
• Supervisor of CERG student (Neda Ghazipour) working on the project
’Study of the size and distribution of landslides in an active mountain
belt: Lorestan and Fars area, Zagros, Iran’ (UNIGE, 2009-).
• Supervisor of PhD student Haseeb Zia (UNIGE, 2011-) working on modelling of sediment routing systems.
• Supervisor of PhD student (Mortaza Pirouz, UNIGE, 2007-2013) working
on the project ’Influence of wedge rheology on the development of foreland
basin systems: Insights from the Zagros’ (UNIGE, 2007-present).
• Supervisor of postdoc (Katja Petrini) working on the project ’Mechanisms
and consequences of orogenic plateau formation: A study based on numerical modelling with application to the Anatolian plateau’ (UNIGE,
2008-2011).
• Supervisor of PhD student (Sonia Scarselli) working on the project ’Interactions between deformation and sediment routing systems in active
fold and thrust belts: an investigation in the Marche Apennines’ (ETH,
2004-2007).
• Supervisor of Postdoc (Sébastien Castelltort) working on fluvial geomorphology and landscape evolution (ETH, 2004-2005).
• Supervisor of DEA student (Alex Demongeot) working on the project
’Consolidation élastique-plastique de Biot’ (ENS, 1999).
COURSES TAUGHT
• ’Cartographie’ - course and practical exercises for 1rd year students, 42
hours, University of Geneva (2010-)
• ’Tectonique’ - course and practical exercises for 3rd year students, 30
hours, University of Geneva (2007-)
• ’Eléments d’informatique’ - course and practical exercises for 2st year students, 112 hours, University of Geneva (2007-)
• ’Méthodes numériques en géosciences’, ELSTE 5-day block course, University of Geneva (2009-)
• ’Analyse de donnes’, ELSTE 5-day block course, University of Geneva
(2009-)
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• ’Finite Element Modelling with applications to Structural Geology’, Invited lecturer, G.Pialli School on Structural Geology, Perugia (5-day block
course, Sept. 2005).
• ’Finite difference programming with applications in Earth Sciences’ - course
and practical exercises for 3rd year students, 30 hours, (ETH, 2005-2007)
• ’Finite element programming with applications in Earth Science’ - course
and practical exercises for 3rd year students, 30 hours, (ETH, 2005-2007)
• Collaborator for the new web-based course ’Advanced Landslide Analysis’
(ETH, 2006-2008)
• Coordinator of practical exercises for the 1st year course ’Dynamic Earth
II’, (ETH, 2006)
• Co-leader of two-week field mapping course for 1st year students, French
Alps (ENS, 1999).
• ’Informatique et techniques numériques’ - course and practical exercises
for 1st year students, 30 hours, (ENS, 1999).
FUNDING
• 2010-2014
Source:
PI:
Value:
• 2008-2011
Advance and application of a surface process model
for the simulation of sediment routing systems
Swiss National Science Foundation
Guy Simpson (UNIGE)
CHF 167,520
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CoPI:
Value:
Mechanisms and consequences of orogenic plateau formation: A study based on
numerical modelling with application to the Anatolian plateau
Swiss National Science Foundation (EUROCORE TOPO-EUROPE program)
Guy Simpson (UNIGE)
Giovanni Bertotti (Univ. Amsterdam)
CHF 269,146
• 2008
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Computer support
Commission d’informatique (UNIGE)
Guy Simpson (UNIGE)
CHF 3,633
• 2007-2012
Influence of wedge rheology of the development of
foreland basin systems: Insights from the Zagros (Iran)
Swiss National Science Foundation
Guy Simpson (UNIGE)
Philip Allen (Imperial College, London), Abbas Bahroudi (Univ. Tehran)
CHF 198,920
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• 2007
DS experiment: Two-dimensional modelling of the stress state in the
Mount Terri Anticline
NAGRA
Guy Simpson (UNIGE)
Tim Vietor (NAGRA) , Katja Petrini (UNIGE)
CHF 16,000
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• 2008
DS experiment: Two-dimensional modelling of the stress state in the
Mount Terri Anticline - continuation project
NAGRA
Guy Simpson (UNIGE)
Tim Vietor (NAGRA), Katja Petrini (UNIGE)
CHF 20,000
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• 2004-2007
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• 2006-2008
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• 2004
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Interactions between deformation and sediment routing systems in
active fold and thrust belts: an investigation in the Marche Apennines
Swiss National Science Foundation
Guy Simpson (UNIGE)
Philip Allen (Imperial College, London), Giorgio Minelli (Univ. Perugia)
CHF 217,938
The response of surface processes to variations in climate:
cosmogenically-derived erosion rates in the Andes and numerical models
Swiss National Science Foundation
Fritz Schlunegger (Univ. Bern)
Guy Simpson (ETH), Rainer Wieler (ETH), Jan Kramers (Univ. Bern)
CHF 463,064
Structural analysis and low-temperature thermochronometry
across the Makran Accretionary prism
Middle East Basin Evolution (MEBE) Consortium
Jean-Pierre Burg (ETH)
Guy Simpson (ETH)
9000 Euro
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Nomination for EUG Young Scientist Award
’Bonus 29 Award’, ETH-Zürich
’Student Research Award’ at the annual New Zealand Geological Society Conference
’Otago University D.S. Coombs Prize in Geology’
Otago University Teaching Award
University of Otago Award in Science
Otago University J.D. Campbell Prize in Geology
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Publications in refereed journals
1. Kremer, K, Simpson, G.D.H. and Girardclos, S. (2012) Giant Lake
Geneva tsunami in AD 563. Nature Geoscience 5, 756757. doi:10.1038/ngeo1618
2. Castelltort, S. and G.D.H. Simpson (2012) Le flux sdimentaire des montaines aux bassins. Gochronique 124,27-30.
3. Simpson, G.D.H. (2011) Mechanics of non-critical foldthrust belts based
on finite element models. Tectonophysics, 499, 142-155.
4. Pirouz, M., Simpson, G.D.H., Bahroudi, A. and A. Azhdari (2011) Neogene sediments and modern depositional environments of the Zagros foreland basin system. Geological Magazine, doi:10.1017/S0016756811000392.
5. Simpson, G.D.H., (2010) Formation of accretionary prisms influenced
by sediment subduction and supplied by sediments from adjacent continentss. Geology 38, 131134, doi: 10.1130/G30461.1.
6. Simpson, G.D.H. (2010) Influence of the mechanical behaviour of brittleductile fold thrust belts on the development of foreland basins. Basin
Research, 22, 139-156, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00406.x.
7. Castelltort, S., Simpson, G.D.H., and Darrioulat, A. (2009) Slopecontrol on the form of river basins. Terra Nova 21, 265270, doi: 10.1111/j.13653121.2009.00880.x.
8. Simpson, G.D.H. (2009). Mechanical modelling of folding versus faulting in brittle-ductile wedges Journal of Structural Geology, 31, 369-381,
doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2009.01.011.
9. Densmore, A.L, P.A. Allen, and G.D.H. Simpson (2007). Development and response of a coupled catchment-fan system under changing tectonic and climatic forcing. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, F01002,
doi:10.1029/2006JF000474.
10. Scarselli, S., G.D.H. Simpson, P.A. Allen, G. Minelli, P. Hochuli, and
L. Gaudenzi (2007). Association between Messinian drainage network
formation and major tectonic activity in the Marche Apennines (Italy).
Terra Nova, 19, 74-81 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00717.x.
11. Castelltort, S., and G.D.H. Simpson (2006). Growing mountain ranges
and quenched river networks. Comptes Rendus Geosciences, 338, 11841193. doi:10.1016/j.crte.2006.09.006.
12. Simpson, G.D.H. (2006). How and to what extent does the emergence
of orogens above sea level influence their tectonic development? Terra
Nova, 18(6), 447-451.
13. Castelltort, S., and G.D.H. Simpson (2006). River spacing and drainage
network growth in widening mountain ranges. Basin Research, 18, 267276.
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14. Simpson, G.D.H. (2006). Modelling interactions between fold-thrust
belt deformation, foreland flexure and surface mass transport. Basin Research, 18, 125-143, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2006.00287.x.
15. Simpson, G.D.H., and S. Castelltort (2006). Coupled model of surface
water flow, sediment transport and morphological evolution. Computers
and Geosciences, 32, 1600-1614.
16. Simpson, G.D.H. (2006) Influence of erosion and deposition on deformation in fold belts. In Tectonics, climate, and landscape evolution (Willett,
S.D., Hovius, N., Brandon, M.T., and Fisher, D. eds.), Geological Society
of America special paper 398, Penrose Conference Series, p. 267-281, doi:
10.1130/2006.2398(16).
17. Zeilinger G., F. Schlunegger, and G.D.H. Simpson (2005). The Oxaya
anticline (northern Chile): A buckle enhanced by river incision? Terra
Nova, 17, 358-375.
18. Simpson, G.D.H. (2004). A dynamic model to investigate coupling between erosion, deposition and three-dimensional (thin-plate) deformation,
Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, 109, F02006, doi:10.1029/2003JF000078.
19. Simpson, G.D.H. (2004). The role of river incision in enhancing deformation, Geology, 32, 341-344.
20. Simpson, G.D.H. (2004). Dynamic interactions between erosion, deposition and three-dimensional deformation in compressional fold-belt settings, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, doi:10.1029/2003JF000111.
21. Simpson, G.D.H., and F. Schlunegger (2003). Topographic evolution
and morphology of surfaces evolving in response to coupled fluvial and hillslope sediment transport, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, doi:10.1029/2002JB002162.
22. Simpson, G.D.H., Y. Guéguen, and F. Schneider (2003). An analytical
model for permeability evolution in microcracking rock, Pure and Applied
Geophysics, 160, 999-1008.
23. Schlunegger, F., and G.D.H. Simpson (2002). Possible erosional control
on lateral growth of the European Central Alps. Geology, 30, 907-910.
24. Simpson, G.D.H. (2001). Influence of compression-induced fluid pressures on rock strength in the brittle crust, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 19465-19485.
25. Simpson, G.D.H., Y. Guéguen, and F. Schneider (2001). Permeability
enhancement due to microcrack dilatancy in the damage regime, Journal
of Geophysical Research, 106, 3999-4016.
26. Simpson, G.D.H. (2000). Metamorphic vein spacing distributions: characterisation and origin of a vein spacing distribution from NW Sardinia,
Italy, Journal of Structural Geology, 22, 335-348.
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27. Simpson, G.D.H., A.B. Thompson, and J.A.D. Connolly (2000). Phase
relations, singularities and thermobarometry of metamorphic assemblages
containing phengite, chlorite, biotite, K-feldspar, quartz and H2 O, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 139, 555-569.
28. Simpson, G.D.H. (1999). Evolution of strength and hydraulic connectivity during dehydration: results from a microcrack model, Journal of
Geophysical Research, 104, 10467-10482.
29. Simpson, G.D.H. (1998) Dehydration-related deformation during regional metamorphism, NW Sardinia, Italy, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 16, 457-472.
30. Simpson, G.D.H., and T. Aslund (1996). Diorite and gabbro of the
Dromedary mafic complex, South Victoria Land, Antarctica, New Zealand
Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 39, 403-414.
31. Simpson, G.D.H., A.F. Cooper, and R.J. Norris (1994). Late Quaternary evolution of the Alpine Fault Zone at Paringa, South Westland, New
Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 37, 49 - 58.
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