Staff profiles
About BGS – our team

Dr Oliver Kuras
Head of environmental and engineering geophysics

Isaac Watkins
Minerals geologist

Dr Christopher Brown
Senior geothermal/thermal energy storage scientist

Dr Declan Valters
Geomagnetism IT specialist

Ian Chisholm
BGS Board

Emily Forbes-Criddle
Business assistant

Anushna Das Gupta
Junior geospatial data analyst

Tino Santamaria
Sample preparation technician

Dr Sophie Baldwin
Survey geologist

Dr Max Jansen
Survey geologist

Dr Marco Vasconez Maza
Geoscientist

Dr Duncan Stevens
Marine geoscientist

Dr Qian Zhang
Senior research scientist-hydromechanics and fluid flow