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 Wurzburg. He has held senior technical and leadership positions for 20 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 – present), Managing Director of the Energy & Geoscience Institute Laboratory located at Institute of Earth Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (2008-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, and 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. His main achievements include textbooks on exploration systematics in thrustbelts, rifts and passive margins.

Michal has published on aforementioned techniques and tectonic and exploration issues of mentioned regional settings and has edited books on passive and transform margins and thrustbelts. He joined EGI in 1998 and serves as Research Professor and Structural Group leader. He has published 80+ articles, co-authored 5 monographs, co-edited 5 edited books.