Dr Laura Gregory
- Position: Associate Professor of Earthquake Geology
- Areas of expertise: active tectonics and earthquakes; quaternary dating; cosmogenic geochemistry; paleomagnetism
- Email: L.C.Gregory@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 1335
- Location: 7.22 Priestley Building
- Website: Twitter | Googlescholar
Profile
Employment History
- Associate Professor of Earthquake Geology (January 2021 – present).
- Career Break for Maternity Leave (2021).
- NERC Independent Research Fellow (Tenure-track), University of Leeds (Feb 2016 – January 2021), Research: Variability of strain accumulation and earthquake recurrence on millennial timescales.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Leeds (2012 – 2016), Research: Earthquake hazard from 36Chlorine analyses of elapsed time and stress transfer.
- Stipendiary Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Science, University of Leeds (6 months, 2015), 3rd/5th year courses in structural geology and 2nd year field mapping course.
Responsibilities
- TSG Treasurer
Research interests
I use a range of geochemical and field-based tools to investigate the rates and styles of continental deformation. My research is driven by making observations of deformation on a range of scales in time and space- from characterising fault slip over multiple earthquake cycles using cosmogenic isotope analyses on exposed fault scarps to investigating the evolution of deformation and mountain building over millions of years.
- Continental deformation and active faulting
- Fault interaction and earthquake repeat times
- Earthquake risk and resilience
- 36Cl and 10Be cosmogenic nuclide dating
- Low temperature thermochronology
- Paleomagnetism applied to vertical axis rotations (VAR)
- Terrestrial laser scanning
Qualifications
- DPhil, University of Oxford
- MSc, University of Florida
- BSc, University of Florida, Geological Sciences
Student education
I am interested in teaching courses that range from introductory structural geology, geological mapping in the field and classroom, and topics in active tectonics and continental deformation.
Research groups and institutes
- Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics
- Geodynamics and Tectonics