The IAEG is delighted to announce that the first Lecture series talk of 2026 will be a PhD seminar! The PhD seminar will be presented on the Wednesday the 4th of February at 7 PM online. There will be three PhD Student speakers presenting their work in 20 min talks: Jack Beckwith (Trinity College Dublin), Victória Susin (University College Dublin/iCRAG Research Ireland Centre for Applied Geosciences) and Philippe Mongeau (The University of Edinburgh). 

Jack will be speaking on PGE in Carlingford. Victoria will be speaking on subsurface characterisation of the Stonepark and Pallas Green Zn-Pb deposits. Philippe will be talking on Controls on precious and critical metal enrichment in sulphide occurrences of the Caledonian-Appalachian orogeny.

Jack Beckwith is a PhD student at Trinity College Dublin, conducting research as part of the SFI-funded Critical Ireland project, led by Dr Mike Stock. His work focuses on the Carlingford Complex, combining geochemical, microstructural, and field-based approaches to understand how the dynamic assembly of upper-crustal magma systems controls the formation and distribution of PGE-mineralised horizons.

Victoria Susin is a PhD candidate at the University College Dublin, working on the integration of geological and geophysical datasets for mineral exploration in Ireland. She recently submitted her PhD thesis: Subsurface characterisation of the Stonepark and Pallas Green Zn-Pb deposits by integrating seismic and petrophysical data with multiphysics geophysical inversions.

Philippe Mongeau is a Canadian geological engineer and PhD student at the University of Edinburgh specializing in mineral exploration and geochemistry. His doctoral research focuses on the controls on precious and critical metal enrichment in sulphide occurrences of the Caledonian-Appalachian orogen. Using sulphide trace chemistry and a variety of isotopic and geochronological systems, he aims to provide a clear assessment of the mineralisation styles and ore forming processes involved in the area, placed within a robust geodynamical framework.