Michal Nemčok - Curriculum vitae

PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS

Research Professor

RM Geology

Donská 38, 841 06 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Phone: 421-904-283-263

E-mail: rmgeology@rmgeology.sk

Managing Director

Laboratory of Geological Architecture (LAGEA) at Faculty of Mining and Geology, Technical University of Ostrava

Gaštanová 15, 811 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

EDUCATION

1991

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

Thesis title: The Cenozoic Development of Western Half of the West Carpathian Orogenic Belt (in Slovak).

2002

Venia docendi in Geology, University of Freiberg, Germany (May 21, 2002). Thesis title: "Paleostress methods and development of the Carpathian orogenic belt" (in German).

2009

Doctor of Geologic Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia (February 4, 2009). Thesis title: “Thrustbelts; structural architecture, thermal regimes and petroleum systems”.

 

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

April 2022 – present

Researcher at Technical University Ostrava

 

January 2022 – March 2023

Researcher at Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

 

September 2020 – present

Visiting Professor at Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland

 

March 2009 – present

Founder and Director of RM Geology, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

 

July 2007 – 2010

Adjunct Professor at Department of Geology and Geophysics at University of Utah while keeping the Research Professorship at EGI

 

January 2000 – 2022

Research Professor at Energy and Geoscience Institute at University of Utah

 

August 1998 – January 2000

Research Assistant Professor at Energy and Geoscience Institute at University of Utah

 

March 1997 - August 1998

Alexander von Humboldt fellow at University of Würzburg, Germany

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October 1996 – August 1998

Head of Hydrocarbon Exploration Department at Slovak Geological Survey

 

October 1995 - October 1996

Lise Meitner fellow at University of Salzburg, Austria

 

April 1994 - August 1995

Amoco postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College of Sciences, London, UK

 

February 1993 - February 1994

Royal Society fellow at University of Wales, Cardiff, UK

 

Both semesters of 1992

Visiting professor at Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

 

May 1991 – October 1996

Researcher at Structural Department, Slovak Geological Survey, Bratislava, Slovakia

 

July 1990 - May 1991

Research associate at ESRI, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

 

October 1985 – July 1990

Research assistant at Dionýz Štúr Geologic Institute, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
  • Slovak National Committee for Geology Prize for the best monograph published during 2016-2017 (13 December, 2018)
  • Ján Pettko Prize from the Slovak National Committee for Geology (2016)
  • Department of Energy awards (2004-2007)
  • US Civilian Research and Development Fund award (2001-2002)
  • Alexander von Humboldt fellow award (1997-1998)
  • Lise Meitner fellow award (1995-1996)
  • Royal Society fellow award (1993-1994)

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists
  • American Geophysical Union
  • European Geosciences Union
  • International Association of Structural/Tectonic Geologists
  • Slovak Geological Association
  • Utah Geological Association

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
  • Session Convener, Symposium HC potential of CEEC II, AAPG International, Vienna 1997
  • Chair, Session: Dinarides, EUROPROBE-PANCARDI meeting, Dubrovnik, September, 2000
  • Chair, Session: Dinarides, EUROPROBE-PANCARDI meeting, Sopron, September, 2001
  • Co-convener, Session: Continental lithosphere: nature, structure and deformation, EUG conference, Nice, April, 2002
  • Convener, Session: Mechanics and dynamics of thrustbelts - Impact on evolving petroleum systems, AAPG Annual, June, Salt Lake City, 2003
  • Short Course, Thrustbelts: Structural architecture, thermal regimes, and petroleum systems, AAPG Annual, June, Salt Lake City, 2003
  • Convener, Session: Carpathian, Dinaride and Balkan development – its impact on evolving petroleum systems, AAPG Regional, Prague, 2004
  • Convener, Session: International hot spots: The Black Sea, AAPG Regional, Athens, November, 2007
  • Scientific Committee member: Central Atlantic Passive Margins Conference, Halifax, August, 2008
  • Convener, Session: Continental break-up processes and their implications for exploration models in rift and passive margin settings, AAPG Annual, New Orleans, April, 2010
  • Scientific Committee member and session chair:  Black Sea Conference, October, Kiev, 2010
  • Organizing Committee member: Conference on Thick-skin-dominated orogens; from initial inversion to full accretion, organizer; ECOPETROL-ICP, Barichara, January 2011
  • Organizing Committee head: Sheared Margins Workshop, EGI, Snowbird, 30 September-1 October, 2013
  • Convener, Session: Structural Geology and Traps-Structures, AAPG ICE, Istanbul, 14-17 September, 2014
  • Technical Program Committee member and Session Convener: GCSSEPM Meeting on Petroleum Systems in “Rift” Basins, Houston, 13-16    December, 2015
  • Chair, Session: Structure and Evolution of Oceanic Basins, Margins and Transforms, AAPG Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, 20-23 May, 2018
  • Scientific Committee member: International Symposium on Deep Seismic Profiling of the Continents and Their Margins, Cracow, 17-22 June, 2018
  • AAPG Visiting Geoscientist Program: lecture tour to universities Krakow, Warsaw and Poznan, 10-15 March, 2019
  • Organizing Committee head: Transform Margins Workshop 2, EGI, Bratislava, 14-16 December, 2020
  • Chair, Session: Exploration in rift basins and passive margins globally, AAPG Regional Meeting, Krakow, 28-29 May 2024
  • Chair, Session: Tectonics of sedimentary basins, 18th Workshop of the International Lithosphere Program, Task Force Sedimentary Basins, 8-9, Krakow, October 2024

 

  • Article reviewer for Acta Montana, Computers and Geosciences, Earth-Science Reviews, Geologica Carpathica, Geological Society of London, Geothermics, Journal of Structural Geology, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Tectonics, Tectonophysics
  • Recognized Reviewer Status - Elsevier
  • Project proposal reviewer for Austrian Science Fund, Earth and Life Science Council, Netherlands
KEYNOTE LECTURES AND CONFERENCE AWARDS
  • Invited speaker, EUG 9 meeting, Strasbourg, France, 1997
  • Invited speaker, IHS Scout meeting, Tbilisi, Georgia, November, 2004
  • Invited speaker, IHS Scout meeting, Bucharest, Romania, April, 2005
  • Invited speaker, HGS/PESGB conference on African exploration and production, Houston, September,  2005
  • Invited speaker, IHS Scout meeting, Ankara, Turkey, October, 2005
  • Invited speaker, GCS/SEPM conference “Petroleum Systems of Divergent Continental Margin Basins”,  Houston, December, 2005
  • Invited speaker, IHS Scout meeting, Jalta, Ukraine, October, 2006
  • Invited speaker, IHS Scout meeting, Tirana, Albania, October 2007
  • Invited keynote speaker, Perspectives on basin basalt and bumps: Kerala-Konkan basin, India,  Mumbai, January, 2008
  • Invited keynote speaker, Conference “Evolution of the mental picture of tight shales. Organizers:  Schlumberger-Energy and Geoscience Institute-Orlen, Warszawa, May, 2012
  • Invited keynote speaker, IHS Scout meeting, Brno, Czech Republic, 5-6 October, 2012
  • Invited keynote speaker, CETEG Kadaň, Czech Republic, 22-25 April, 2015
  • Invited keynote speaker, HGS/PESGB Conference, London, UK, 3-4 September, 2015
  • Invited keynote speaker: International Symposium on Deep Seismic Profiling of the Continents and Their Margins, Cracow, 17-22 June, 2018
  • Invited keynote speaker, EAGE meeting on Guyana-Suriname, Teleconference, 7 September, 2021
  • Invited keynote speaker, International Symposium on Tectonics of the Brazilian Geological Society in Natal, 7-10 August 2022
  • Invited keynote speaker, CEEC Scout Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, 6-8 October, 2022
  • Invited keynote speaker, EAGE meeting on Guyana-Suriname, Georgetown, 26-28 October, 2022
  • Invited keynote speaker, CEEC Scout Meeting, Torun, Poland, 11-13 May, 2023

 

  • GRC Best Paper Award, GRC 2002 Annual Meeting, Reno
  • GRC Best Paper Award, GRC 2003 Annual Meeting, Morelia
  • GRC Best Paper Award, GRC 2006 Annual Meeting, San Diego