Alexander Lewis Peace

Assistant Professor (Structural Geology), McMaster University

I am a structural geologist leading the McMaster Structural Geology and Tectonics Group, in the School of Earth, Environment and Society at McMaster University. I research deformation processes and associated hazards as well as resources. I am particularly interested in rifting and breakup, rift-related magmatism, seismic hazards, and structural inheritance. Geographically, I have worked around the North Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on Eastern Canada. The nature of my work requires a multifaceted approach incorporating a wide variety of approaches and methodologies such as: seismic interpretation, field-based studies, numerical modelling, petrology, structural modelling and geochemistry.

Experience

–present

Assistant Professor (Structural Geology), McMaster University
2018–2019

Postdoctoral fellow, Memorial University of Newfoundland
2017–2017

Research assistant, Durham University

Education

2017

Durham University, PhD
2011

Durham University, BSc

Professional Memberships

Fellow of the Geological Society of London
Member of the European Geosciences Union
Member of American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Secretary of the Canadian Tectonics Group