Juan-Tomás Vázquez is PhD in geological sciences
from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
with the thesis “Structure of the Northern Margin of
the Alboran Sea.” Between 1986 and 1993, he was
part of the Marine Geology Service of the Instituto
Geológico y Minero de España. Between 1993 and
2007, he was professor at the University of Cádiz
(Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences). In
2007, he joined the Instituto Español de Oceanografía
as researcher. His research focuses on active tectonics
and other active geological processes and structures:
magmatism and fluid emissions, diapirism, submarine
geomorphology (seamounts, canyons, and landslides),
and tsunami triggering mechanisms in continental margins and ocean basins, developing this activity in marine
regions around Iberia, Canary Islands, and the Antarctic.
He has participated in 52 projects financed in national or
European calls and in 74 oceanographic expeditions of
national and international character, being in 28 of them
scientific chief or co-chief. He has published more than
167 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, of
which 63 are scientific journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports, 7 books, and 90 book chapters. He has
been member of 8 UNESCO, 2 INQUA, 3 European,
and 3 Spanish working groups. He was appointed by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in 2003 to
the advisory commission of experts in Marine Geology
and Geophysics for the extension of the Continental
Shelf of Spain in accordance with Article 76, paragraph
8 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea 1982. In addition, since 2008 he is the representative of the IEO in the Technical Scientific Working
Group for the preparation of this study and has been a
member of the delegations of Spain to the UN (CLCS)
for the presentation of proposals for the Extension of the
Limits of the Continental Shelf of Spain in the areas of
Galicia and the Canary Islands.
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About the Editors
from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
with the thesis “Structure of the Northern Margin of
the Alboran Sea.” Between 1986 and 1993, he was
part of the Marine Geology Service of the Instituto
Geológico y Minero de España. Between 1993 and
2007, he was professor at the University of Cádiz
(Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences). In
2007, he joined the Instituto Español de Oceanografía
as researcher. His research focuses on active tectonics
and other active geological processes and structures:
magmatism and fluid emissions, diapirism, submarine
geomorphology (seamounts, canyons, and landslides),
and tsunami triggering mechanisms in continental margins and ocean basins, developing this activity in marine
regions around Iberia, Canary Islands, and the Antarctic.
He has participated in 52 projects financed in national or
European calls and in 74 oceanographic expeditions of
national and international character, being in 28 of them
scientific chief or co-chief. He has published more than
167 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, of
which 63 are scientific journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports, 7 books, and 90 book chapters. He has
been member of 8 UNESCO, 2 INQUA, 3 European,
and 3 Spanish working groups. He was appointed by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in 2003 to
the advisory commission of experts in Marine Geology
and Geophysics for the extension of the Continental
Shelf of Spain in accordance with Article 76, paragraph
8 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea 1982. In addition, since 2008 he is the representative of the IEO in the Technical Scientific Working
Group for the preparation of this study and has been a
member of the delegations of Spain to the UN (CLCS)
for the presentation of proposals for the Extension of the
Limits of the Continental Shelf of Spain in the areas of
Galicia and the Canary Islands.
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About the Editors