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
ORCID: 0000-0003-2623-1635
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. Characterization of a Deglaciated Sediment Chronosequence in the High Arctic Using Near-Surface Geoelectrical Monitoring Methods. 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. Windowed 4D inversion for near real-time geoelectrical monitoring applications. Frontiers in Earth Science 10
- Harrison, S, Hughes, L, Glasser, N, and Kuras, O. 2021. Late Quaternary solifluction sheets in the British uplands. Journal of Quaternary Science, 1–12
- Cimpoiasu, M O, Kuras, O, Pridmore, T, and Mooney, S J. 2020. Potential of geoelectrical methods to monitor root zone processes and structure: A review. Geoderma, 365
- Smith, N T, Shreeve, J, and Kuras, O. 2020. Multi-sensor core logging (MSCL) and X-ray computed tomography imaging of borehole core to aid 3D geological modelling of poorly exposed unconsolidated superficial sediments underlying complex industrial sites: An example from Sellafield nuclear site, UK. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 178
- Uhlemann, S, Kuras, O, Richards, L A, Naden E, and Polya, D A. 2017. Electrical resistivity tomography determines the spatial distribution of clay layer thickness and aquifer vulnerability, Kandal Province, Cambodia. 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. Improved characterisation and modelling of measurement errors in electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) surveys. 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. Monitoring rock freezing and thawing by novel geoelectrical and acoustic techniques. 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. Geoelectrical monitoring of simulated subsurface leakage to support high-hazard nuclear decommissioning at the Sellafield Site, UK. 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. Recent developments in the direct-current geoelectrical imaging method. Journal of Applied Geophysics. 95, 135–156
- Kuras, O, Beamish, D, Meldrum, P I, and Ogilvy, R D. 2006. Fundamentals of the capacitive resistivity technique. 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)