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Oliver Kuras’ biography

• 2021 to present: Head of environmental and engineering geophysics, BGS
• 2016 to 2023: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), Hannover, Germany
• 2017 to 2021: Principal research geophysicist, BGS
• 2016 to 2018: Board member and chair, Near-Surface Geoscience Division (NSGD), European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)
• 2010 to 2013: Chair, Near-Surface Geophysics Group (NSGG), Geological Society of London
• 2006 to 2017: Senior research geophysicist, BGS
• 2001 to 2006: Research geophysicist, BGS
• 2005: Chartered physicist, Institute of Physics (IoP)
• 2003: PhD Environmental geophysics, University of Nottingham, UK
• 1998: MSc Physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
• 1996: BSc (Hons) Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, UK

Research interests

• Development of geoelectrical and electromagnetic imaging and monitoring methodologies
• Capacitive Resistivity Imaging (CRI) – theory, instrumentation, applications
• Application of geophysical methods to geoenergy: geothermal, CCS, radwaste containment
• Cryosphere geophysics and permafrost monitoring
• Applications of CRI to Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) in defence and security
• Technology transfer and commercialisation of research

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Key papers

• Cimpoiasu, M O, Kuras, O, Harrison, H, Wilkinson, P B, Meldrum, P, Chambers, J E, Liljestrand, D, Oroza, C, Schmidt, S K, Sommers, P, Irons, T P, and Bradley, J A. 2024. . Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 35(2): 157–171
• Wilkinson, P B, Chambers, J E, Meldrum, P I, Kuras, O, Inauen, C M, Swift, R T, Curioni G, Uhlemann, S, Graham J, and Atherton, N. 2022. . Frontiers in Earth Science 10
• Harrison, S, Hughes, L, Glasser, N, and Kuras, O. 2021. . Journal of Quaternary Science, 1–12
• Cimpoiasu, M O, Kuras, O, Pridmore, T, and Mooney, S J. 2020. . Geoderma, 365
• Smith, N T, Shreeve, J, and Kuras, O. 2020.. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 178
• Uhlemann, S, Kuras, O, Richards, L A, Naden E, and Polya, D A. 2017. . Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 147, 402–414
• Tso, C H M, Kuras, O, Wilkinson, P B, Uhlemann, S, Chambers, J E, Meldrum, P I, Graham, J, Sherlock, E F, and Binley, A. 2017. . Journal of Applied Geophysics 146, 103–119
• Murton, J B, Kuras, O, Krautblatter, M, Cane, T, Tschofen, D, Uhlemann, S, Schober, S, and Watson, P. 2016. . Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface 121, 2309–2332
• Kuras, O, Wilkinson, P, Meldrum, P, Oxby, L, Uhlemann, S, Chambers, J, Binley, A, Graham, J, Smith, N, Dewey, G, and Atherton, N. 2016. . Science of the Total Environment, 566–567, 350–359
• Loke, M H, Chambers, J E, Rucker, D F, Kuras, O, and Wilkinson, P B. 2013. . Journal of Applied Geophysics. 95, 135–156
• Kuras, O, Beamish, D, Meldrum, P I, and Ogilvy, R D. 2006. . Geophysics, 71, G135–G152.

Published outputs

• Fluent in German (mother tongue)

• Fellow of The Geological Society of London (FGS)
• Chartered Physicist (CPhys) and Member of the Institute of Physics (MIoP)
• Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Member of European Association of Geophysicists and Engineers (EAGE)
• Member of Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (German Geophysical Society, DGG)