Alan Geoffrey Milnes

Geoscience Consultant

B.Sc. (Edinburgh, 1960); Dr. Phil. (Basel, 1964); Titular Professor of Geology, Dept. of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, since 1984

Office address: GEA Consulting, Grand-Rue 7C, 2035 Corcelles (NE), Switzerland        

Telephone: +41 32 731 0714 (Mobile phone: +46 733 998 475)

Address in Spain:  Partida Marjal 20, 03790 Orba (Prov de Alicante)          Tel.: +34 96 558 3688

E-mail address: agmilnes@compuserve.com (Alan Geoffrey Milnes)

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Biographical summary

Born 1938, in Leeds, England. Married to Kirsten (Andersen) in 1961, three children. Educated at Ilkley Grammar School, University of Edinburgh (B.Sc. 1960) and University of Basel (Dr. Phil. 1964). Speaks English, German, Norwegian (Swedish).

Academic positions

1963-1965, Assistant Lecturer at University of Edinburgh, Department of Geology;

1965-1968, Assistant Professor at Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dept.of Earth Sciences;

1969-1984, Dozent at ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Geological Institute; 1980-1985, Co-Director of the Geological-Mineralogical Museum;

1984-present, Titular Professor at ETH Zürich, Dept. of Earth Sciences ( ETH “Who’s Who” ) 

1985-1987, Professor of Geology at NTH (Norwegian Technical University), Trondheim;

1991-1998, Professor of Geology at University of Bergen.

1998-2003, periods as Research Associate, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University

Teaching: structural geology, tectonics, lithosphere dynamics, environmental geology; supervision of 10 PhD and 20 MSc theses. Research: deformation processes in collisional orogens (Central Alps, Scandinavian Caledonides, Southern Andes), structural geology of glaciers,  brittle tectonics of southern Scandinavia (SW Norway, SE Sweden, onshore/offshore correlations), fault/fracture analyses in rift systems (Suez, Utah), geological aspects of radioactive waste disposal (book “Geology and Radwaste”, Academic Press, 1985)

Consulting: independent consultancy established 1988 in Zürich under the name Geological and Environmental Assessments (GEA), now registered in Norway as GEA Consulting.

Main projects/fields of experience:  radioactive waste disposal: technical reviews in structural geology/rock mechanics/geohydrology, site selection studies; environmental impact assessment: geoscience input for hydropower and waste disposal projects;  structural reservoir modelling for offshore Norwegian oil and gas fields (in co-operation with Geo-Recon AS, Oslo); desk studies in regional tectonics for various purposes (oil exploration, radioactive waste disposal, Alpine tunnels).

Member of the Geological Society of America (GSA) and the geological societies of Switzerland, Norway and Sweden; founding board member of the Swiss Energy Foundation (1974-1985).