Rate My Professor Chris Chris Elders

Professor Chris Elders is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Curtin University, having joined the institution in October 2013 as the inaugural Chevron Professor of Petroleum Geology. Prior to his appointment at Curtin, he spent 20 years at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he served as Professor of Petroleum Geoscience and directed the MSc program in Petroleum Geosciences. Earlier, after graduating from the University of Oxford with a PhD in Geology between 1983 and 1988, Elders worked for five years as an exploration geologist for the Shell group of companies. His academic career has focused on advancing knowledge in sedimentary basins and petroleum systems.

Elders' research specializations encompass petroleum geology, basin evolution, structural geology, tectonics, plate tectonics, regional geology, exploration geology, petroleum geoscience, seismic interpretation, and petroleum exploration, with particular emphasis on the North West Shelf of Australia, Northern Carnarvon Basin, Perth Basin, and other rift systems worldwide. He has an extensive publication record exceeding 80 papers, including notable works such as 'Architecture, geomorphology, and sediment gravity flows of a Jurassic subaqueous clinoform system, northeast Exmouth Plateau, North West Shelf, Australia' (2019), 'Thin-section detrital zircon geochronology mitigates bias in provenance investigations' (2021), 'Geophysical model generation with generative adversarial networks' (2022), 'Regional seismic stratigraphic framework and depositional history of the post-Valanginian passive margin sequences in the Northern Carnarvon Basin, North West Shelf of Australia' (2023), and 'Extensional fault evolution within the Exmouth Sub-basin, North West Shelf, Australia' (2017). These contributions have earned over 1,400 citations on ResearchGate and influenced studies on fault systems, syn-extensional sedimentation, and gravity-driven deformation. In 2023, he received the Marine and Petroleum Geology Outstanding Reviewer Award. Elders has supervised PhD students and contributed to industry workshops on seismic interpretation.