Duarte Soares
Senior Technical Adviser
Dr Duarte Soares is a geologist with an MSc in Petroleum Geoscience and a PhD in Seismic Stratigraphy.
Since joining ITOPF in 2017, he has attended spills in Asia, South America, Oceania and Europe.
When not attending spills on site, he coordinates the ITOPF R&D Award, has been involved in the revision of national contingency plans for several African countries, participates in international conferences, and has collaborated in the delivery of awareness and preparedness courses at governmental level.
He also leads ITOPF’s Monitoring, Modelling and Mapping Working Group.
Before joining ITOPF in 2017, he worked for the hydrocarbon industry in the UK, as a geologist in a diamond mine in Angola and on geoarchaeology and environmental impact studies in Portugal.
Languages
Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), French (basic).
Published papers
Soares, D., Alves T. & Terrinha, P. (2014): Contourite drifts on early passive margins as indicators of established lithospheric breakup. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 401, p. 116-131.
Soares, D., Alves T. & Terrinha, P. (2012): The Breakup Sequence and associated Lithospheric Breakup Surface: Their significance in the context of rifted continental margins (West Iberia and Newfoundland Margins, North Atlantic). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 355-356, p. 311-326.