Irene Pérez Cáceres
Contract Scientist
Personal Information
Educational Background
- 2017: PhD Thesis. Title Doctoral Thesis: Terranes affinity and Variscan transpressional evolution of Rheic-related units in SW Iberia. Cum Laude qualification. International mention by the Earth Sciences Doctoral Programme of the University of Granada.
- 2012: Official Master in Geological Resources and Geotechnics at the University of Oviedo. Title Master Thesis: Estructura y metamorfismo de la Zona Axial Pirenaica en el sector suroccidental del Macizo de Lys-Caillaouas (Huesca, España).
- 2010: Graduate in Geology at the University of Salamanca.
Appointments
- 2017-2018: Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Granada.
- 2016-2017: Graduate research assistant at the University of Granada.
- 2012-2016: Pre-Doctoral programme FPI (Training of teaching-research staff) supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competiveness of the Spanish Government at the University of Granada.
Research Interests
- Tectonics
- Variscan orogeny
- Iberian Massif
- Structural geology
- Geocronology
- Paleogeography
- Low grade metamorphism
- Geodynamics
- Geological cartography
- Field geology
- Geochemistry
Active Projects
- November 2018: Research scientist on “Somos Científicos” divulgation activity organized by FECYT.
- June 2015 and May 2016: Conferences of laboral orientation for students of Geology, University of Granada: “Life of a PhD student in Geology”.
- May 2015: Participation on the organization and development of Geolodía 2015, Granada, of the Geological Society of Spain: “La falla de Nigüelas”.
- Geolog Imaggeo on Mondays, European Geoscience Union (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu), 26 January, 2015: “Landslide on the Cantabrian Coastline”.
- November 2013: XII Science week, Project “Faults and Earthquakes”, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Granada.
- May 2013: Participation on the organization and development of Geolodía 2013, Granada, of the Geological Society of Spain: “Deslízate a conocer el oro de Granada”.