Prof. Tim Minshull is Professor of Geophysics and has led or co-led 17 marine seismic experiments since 1993. He has published >110 papers in ISI journals and these papers have been cited > 3000 times. He recently lead a >£700k NERC-funded project quantifying the methane reservoir and identifying methane escape pathways offshore Svalbard and currently leads a >£800k NERC-funded project investigating the record of continental breakup off Iberia.