DrKoen Torremans

Koen is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the School of Earth Sciences. He is a structural geologist who specializes in earth resources in sedimentary basins. Koen is Funded Investigator at iCRAG, the Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences, and is co-lead of the Fault Analysis Group at UCD.

Currently, Koen's research focuses on base metal deposits in sedimentary basins, including the the Central African Copperbelt in Zambia and the D.R.Congo, the Irish Orefield, the Namibian Gariep Belt, and deposits in West Greenland. His research applies a variety of techniques to elucidate fluid flow within basins, study mineralised systems, and unravel structural controls on earth resources. This includes structural analysis, basin analysis, sediment-petrological studies, petrophysical analysis, mineral geochemistry, isotope geochemistry and various geological and mechanical numerical modelling techniques.