Michal Nemčok

Michal Nemčok was born in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

He obtained his PhD from the Comenius University, Bratislava and joined academic research in 1985.  He was awarded Royal Society, Amoco, Lise Meitner and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships at University of Wales, Cardiff, Imperial College London, University of Salzburg and University of Würzburg. He has held senior technical and leadership positions for 30 years, including Head of Hydrocarbon Exploration Department at Slovak Geological Survey (1996 – 1998), Head of Structural Geology Group at Energy & Geoscience Institute at University of Utah (2000 – 2022), Managing Director of the Laboratory of Geological Architecture (LAGEA) at Technical University Ostrava (2022-present), Founder and Director of the RM Geology (2009 - present) and is currently based in Bratislava.

He co-invented several paleostress techniques, studied thrustbelts all over the world, with emphasis on Carpathians, Andes, Balkans, Variscides of Wales, Himalayas and Caucasus, co-developed numerical fracture location and kinematic prediction techniques, studied rifts and passive margins all over the world, with emphasis on Carpathian-Pannonian basins, Basin and Range province, Bristol Channel Basin, Central Basin of Congo, Salton Sea region, Central, Equatorial and South Atlantic margins, West and East Indian margins and NW Australian margins, studied strike-slip terrains and transform margins all over the world, with emphasis on Vienna Basin, San Joaquin Basin, and Coromandal, Guyana, Romanche and Zenith-Wallaby-Perth transform margins, studied geothermal systems such as Karaha-Telaga Bodas, Java, and Coso, Medicine Lake and Salton Sea, Western US. His main achievements include textbooks on hydrocarbon and geothermal exploration systematics in thrustbelts, rifts and rift margins, strike-slip terrains and transform margins.

Michal has published on aforementioned techniques and tectonic and exploration issues of mentioned regional settings and has edited books on rift and transform margins and thrustbelts.

He founded RM Geology in 2009 and serves as Research Professor and director, and joined Technical University Ostrava in 2022. He has published 97 research articles, co-authored 6 monographs and co-edited 6 edited books.