My research evolves around tectonics and the evolution of Earth's lithosphere at various spatio-temporal scales. I apply a combination of field-based methods with laboratory analyses (geochronology, paleomagnetism) to reconstruct subduction, accretion and exhumation. My extensive field experience spans a diverse range of tectonic settings, where I worked in sedimentary basins, metamorphic basement and magmatic terranes. I am particularly interested in relationships between orogenic/plate boundary events and far-field changes in plate motion. My focus regions are the Tethyan realm (spanning from Greece - Turkey - Iran - India) and the Southwest Pacific region (New Caledonia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea). I have participated in and led marine research expeditions on divergent plate margins in the Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean, and the Tasman Sea.
I joined the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at UQ in August 2018, after receiving my PhD from Utrecht University, The Netherlands (2017). I hold an MSc. in Geology from the University of Oslo, Norway (2012).
Journal Article: Embracing Uncertainty to Resolve Polar Wander: A Case Study of Cenozoic North America
Gallo, L. C., Domeier, M., Sapienza, F., Swanson‐Hysell, N. L., Vaes, B., Zhang, Y., Arnould, M., Eyster, A., Gürer, D., Király, Á., Robert, B., Rolf, T., Shephard, G. and van der Boon, A. (2023). Embracing Uncertainty to Resolve Polar Wander: A Case Study of Cenozoic North America. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (11) e2023GL103436. doi: 10.1029/2023gl103436
Journal Article: Plate tectonic chain reaction revealed by noise in the Cretaceous quiet zone
Gürer, Derya, Granot, Roi and van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J. (2022). Plate tectonic chain reaction revealed by noise in the Cretaceous quiet zone. Nature Geoscience, 15 (3), 233-239. doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-00893-7
Journal Article: Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Torsvik, Trond H., Schmid, Stefan M., Maţenco, Liviu C., Maffione, Marco, Vissers, Reinoud L. M., Gürer, Derya and Spakman, Wim (2020). Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic. Gondwana Research, 81, 79-229. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.009
Journal Article: Diachronous demise of the Neotethys Ocean as a driver for non-cylindrical orogenesis in Anatolia
Gürer, Derya and van Hinsbergen, Douwe J.J. (2019). Diachronous demise of the Neotethys Ocean as a driver for non-cylindrical orogenesis in Anatolia. Tectonophysics, 760, 95-106. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.06.005
Journal Article: Forced subduction initiation recorded in the sole and crust of the Semail Ophiolite of Oman
Guilmette, Carl, Smit, Matthijs A., van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Gürer, Derya, Corfu, Fernando, Charette, Benoit, Maffione, Marco, Rabeau, Olivier and Savard, Dany (2018). Forced subduction initiation recorded in the sole and crust of the Semail Ophiolite of Oman. Nature Geoscience, 11 (9), 688-695. doi: 10.1038/s41561-018-0209-2
Journal Article: A long-lived Late Cretaceous-early Eocene extensional province in Anatolia? Structural evidence from the Ivriz Detachment, southern central Turkey
Gurer, Derya, Plunder, Alexis, Kirst, Frederik, Corfu, Fernando, Schmid, Stefan M. and van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J. (2018). A long-lived Late Cretaceous-early Eocene extensional province in Anatolia? Structural evidence from the Ivriz Detachment, southern central Turkey. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 481, 111-124. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.008
Journal Article: Tectonic evolution and paleogeography of the Kırşehir Block and the Central Anatolian Ophiolites, Turkey
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Maffione, Marco, Plunder, Alexis, Kaymakcı, Nuretdin, Ganerød, Morgan, Hendriks, Bart W. H., Corfu, Fernando, Gürer, Derya, de Gelder, Giovanni I. N. O., Peters, Kalijn, McPhee, Peter J., Brouwer, Fraukje M., Advokaat, Eldert L. and Vissers, Reinoud L. M. (2016). Tectonic evolution and paleogeography of the Kırşehir Block and the Central Anatolian Ophiolites, Turkey. Tectonics, 35 (4), 983-1014. doi: 10.1002/2015tc004018
(2020–2023) Universities Australia - Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme
Diamonds in ophiolite: Recycling deep mantle into supra-subduction zones
(2019–2023) ARC Discovery Projects
Derya is moving at the end of 2023. She is not admitting any students or postdocs at UQ at this time.
Embracing Uncertainty to Resolve Polar Wander: A Case Study of Cenozoic North America
Gallo, L. C., Domeier, M., Sapienza, F., Swanson‐Hysell, N. L., Vaes, B., Zhang, Y., Arnould, M., Eyster, A., Gürer, D., Király, Á., Robert, B., Rolf, T., Shephard, G. and van der Boon, A. (2023). Embracing Uncertainty to Resolve Polar Wander: A Case Study of Cenozoic North America. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (11) e2023GL103436. doi: 10.1029/2023gl103436
Plate tectonic chain reaction revealed by noise in the Cretaceous quiet zone
Gürer, Derya, Granot, Roi and van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J. (2022). Plate tectonic chain reaction revealed by noise in the Cretaceous quiet zone. Nature Geoscience, 15 (3), 233-239. doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-00893-7
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Torsvik, Trond H., Schmid, Stefan M., Maţenco, Liviu C., Maffione, Marco, Vissers, Reinoud L. M., Gürer, Derya and Spakman, Wim (2020). Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic. Gondwana Research, 81, 79-229. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.009
Diachronous demise of the Neotethys Ocean as a driver for non-cylindrical orogenesis in Anatolia
Gürer, Derya and van Hinsbergen, Douwe J.J. (2019). Diachronous demise of the Neotethys Ocean as a driver for non-cylindrical orogenesis in Anatolia. Tectonophysics, 760, 95-106. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.06.005
Forced subduction initiation recorded in the sole and crust of the Semail Ophiolite of Oman
Guilmette, Carl, Smit, Matthijs A., van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Gürer, Derya, Corfu, Fernando, Charette, Benoit, Maffione, Marco, Rabeau, Olivier and Savard, Dany (2018). Forced subduction initiation recorded in the sole and crust of the Semail Ophiolite of Oman. Nature Geoscience, 11 (9), 688-695. doi: 10.1038/s41561-018-0209-2
Gurer, Derya, Plunder, Alexis, Kirst, Frederik, Corfu, Fernando, Schmid, Stefan M. and van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J. (2018). A long-lived Late Cretaceous-early Eocene extensional province in Anatolia? Structural evidence from the Ivriz Detachment, southern central Turkey. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 481, 111-124. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.008
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Maffione, Marco, Plunder, Alexis, Kaymakcı, Nuretdin, Ganerød, Morgan, Hendriks, Bart W. H., Corfu, Fernando, Gürer, Derya, de Gelder, Giovanni I. N. O., Peters, Kalijn, McPhee, Peter J., Brouwer, Fraukje M., Advokaat, Eldert L. and Vissers, Reinoud L. M. (2016). Tectonic evolution and paleogeography of the Kırşehir Block and the Central Anatolian Ophiolites, Turkey. Tectonics, 35 (4), 983-1014. doi: 10.1002/2015tc004018
Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., Archontikis, O.A., Batenburg, S.J., Bijl, P.K., Burkett, A.M., Cawthra, H.C., Chanda, P., Coenen, J.J., Dallanave, E., Davidson, P.C., Doiron, K.E., Geldmacher, J., Gürer, D., Haynes, S.J., Herrle, J.O., Ichiyama, Y., Jana, D., Jones, M.M., Kato, C., Kulhanek, D.K., Li, J., Liu, J., McManus, J., Minakov, A.N., Penman, D.E., Sprain, C.J., Tessin, A.C. ... Westerhold, T. (2023). Expedition 392 methods. Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. International Ocean Discovery Program. doi: 10.14379/iodp.proc.392.102.2023
Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., Archontikis, O.A., Batenburg, S.J., Bijl, P.K., Burkett, A.M., Cawthra, H.C., Chanda, P., Coenen, J.J., Dallanave, E., Davidson, P.C., Doiron, K.E., Geldmacher, J., Gürer, D., Haynes, S.J., Herrle, J.O., Ichiyama, Y., Jana, D., Jones, M.M., Kato, C., Kulhanek, D.K., Li, J., Liu, J., McManus, J., Minakov, A.N., Penman, D.E., Sprain, C.J., Tessin, A.C. ... Westerhold, T. (2023). Expedition 392 summary. Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. International Ocean Discovery Program. doi: 10.14379/iodp.proc.392.101.2023
Bohaty, S.M., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Childress, L.B., Archontikis, O.A., Batenburg, S.J., Bijl, P.K., Burkett, A.M., Cawthra, H.C., Chanda, P., Coenen, J.J., Dallanave, E., Davidson, P.C., Doiron, K.E., Geldmacher, J., Gürer, D., Haynes, S.J., Herrle, J.O., Ichiyama, Y., Jana, D., Jones, M.M., Kato, C., Kulhanek, D.K., Li, J., Liu, J., McManus, J., Minakov, A.N., Penman, D.E., Sprain, C.J., Tessin, A.C. ... Westerhold, T. (2023). Site U1581. Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. International Ocean Discovery Program. doi: 10.14379/iodp.proc.392.105.2023
Embracing Uncertainty to Resolve Polar Wander: A Case Study of Cenozoic North America
Gallo, L. C., Domeier, M., Sapienza, F., Swanson‐Hysell, N. L., Vaes, B., Zhang, Y., Arnould, M., Eyster, A., Gürer, D., Király, Á., Robert, B., Rolf, T., Shephard, G. and van der Boon, A. (2023). Embracing Uncertainty to Resolve Polar Wander: A Case Study of Cenozoic North America. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (11) e2023GL103436. doi: 10.1029/2023gl103436
Author Correction: Science on social media
Gürer, Derya, Hubbard, Judith and Bohon, Wendy (2023). Author Correction: Science on social media. Communications Earth & Environment, 4 (1) 186. doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00853-y
Gürer, Derya, Hubbard, Judith and Bohon, Wendy (2023). Science on social media. Communications Earth & Environment, 4 (1) 148. doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00810-9
Uenzelmann-Neben, Gabriele, Bohaty, Steven M., Childress, Laurel B., Archontikis, Odysseas A., Batenburg, Sietske J., Bijl, Peter K., Burkett, Ashley M., Chanda, Pratyusha, Coenen, Jason J., Dallanave, Edoardo, Davidson, Peter C., Doiron, Kelsey E., Geldmacher, Jörg, Gürer, Derya, Haynes, Shannon J., Herrle, Jens O., Ichiyama, Yuji, Jana, Debadrita, Jones, Matthew M., Kato, Chie, Kulhanek, Denise K., Li, Juan, Liu, Jia, McManus, James, Yakutchik, Maryalice, Cawthra, Hayley C., Minakov, Alexander N., Penman, Donald E., Sprain, Courtney J. ... Westerhold, Thomas (2022). Agulhas Plateau cretaceous climate: drilling the Agulhas Plateau and Transkei Basin to reconstruct the Cretaceous–Paleogene tectonic and climatic evolution of the Southern Ocean basin. International Ocean Discovery Program: Preliminary Reports, 392. doi: 10.14379/iodp.pr.392.2022
Gerogiannis, Nikolaos, Chatzaras, Vasileios, Aravadinou, Eirini, Gürer, Derya and Xypolias, Paraskevas (2022). Microstructural and textural modification of columnar calcite under increasing shear strain (Evia Island, Greece). Journal of Structural Geology, 160 104632, 104632. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2022.104632
Plate tectonic chain reaction revealed by noise in the Cretaceous quiet zone
Gürer, Derya, Granot, Roi and van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J. (2022). Plate tectonic chain reaction revealed by noise in the Cretaceous quiet zone. Nature Geoscience, 15 (3), 233-239. doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-00893-7
Rosenbaum, Gideon, Rogers, Ashley, Gürer, Derya, Andjić, Goran and Allen, Charlotte M (2021). Origin of the intra‐oceanic Silverwood Block (New England Orogen, Australia): evidence from radiolarian biostratigraphy and detrital zircon petrochronology. Tectonics, 40 (12) e2021TC006920. doi: 10.1029/2021tc006920
Duarte, João C., Fakhraee, Mojtaba, Gürer, Derya, Kwiecien, Ola and Nichols, Claire I. O. (2021). A dynamic planet. Communications Earth and Environment, 2 (1) 181. doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00246-z
A record of plume-induced plate rotation triggering subduction initiation
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Steinberger, Bernhard, Guilmette, Carl, Maffione, Marco, Gürer, Derya, Peters, Kalijn, Plunder, Alexis, McPhee, Peter J., Gaina, Carmen, Advokaat, Eldert L., Vissers, Reinoud L. M. and Spakman, Wim (2021). A record of plume-induced plate rotation triggering subduction initiation. Nature Geoscience, 14 (8), 626-630. doi: 10.1038/s41561-021-00780-7
Geophysical and geochemical constraints on the origin of Holocene intraplate volcanism in East Asia
Ward, Jack F., Rosenbaum, Gideon, Ubide, Teresa, Wu, Jonny, Caulfield, John T., Sandiford, Mike and Gürer, Derya (2021). Geophysical and geochemical constraints on the origin of Holocene intraplate volcanism in East Asia. Earth-Science Reviews, 218 103624, 103624. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103624
A transdisciplinary and community-driven database to unravel subduction zone initiation
Crameri, Fabio, Magni, Valentina, Domeier, Mathew, Shephard, Grace E., Chotalia, Kiran, Cooper, George, Eakin, Caroline M., Grima, Antoniette Greta, Gürer, Derya, Király, Ágnes, Mulyukova, Elvira, Peters, Kalijn, Robert, Boris and Thielmann, Marcel (2020). A transdisciplinary and community-driven database to unravel subduction zone initiation. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 3750, 3750. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17522-9
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Torsvik, Trond H., Schmid, Stefan M., Maţenco, Liviu C., Maffione, Marco, Vissers, Reinoud L. M., Gürer, Derya and Spakman, Wim (2020). Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic. Gondwana Research, 81, 79-229. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.009
Diachronous demise of the Neotethys Ocean as a driver for non-cylindrical orogenesis in Anatolia
Gürer, Derya and van Hinsbergen, Douwe J.J. (2019). Diachronous demise of the Neotethys Ocean as a driver for non-cylindrical orogenesis in Anatolia. Tectonophysics, 760, 95-106. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.06.005
Forced subduction initiation recorded in the sole and crust of the Semail Ophiolite of Oman
Guilmette, Carl, Smit, Matthijs A., van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Gürer, Derya, Corfu, Fernando, Charette, Benoit, Maffione, Marco, Rabeau, Olivier and Savard, Dany (2018). Forced subduction initiation recorded in the sole and crust of the Semail Ophiolite of Oman. Nature Geoscience, 11 (9), 688-695. doi: 10.1038/s41561-018-0209-2
Gurer, Derya, van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Ozkaptan, Murat, Creton, Iverna, Koymans, Mathijs R., Cascella, Antonio and Langereis, Cornelis G. (2018). Paleomagnetic constraints on the timing and distribution of Cenozoic rotations in Central and Eastern Anatolia. Solid Earth, 9 (2), 295-322. doi: 10.5194/se-9-295-2018
van der Boon, A., van Hinsbergen, D. J. J., Rezaeian, M., Gurer, D., Honarmand, M., Pastor-Galan, D., Krijgsman, W. and Langereis, C. G. (2018). Quantifying Arabia-Eurasia convergence accommodated in the Greater Caucasus by paleomagnetic reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 482, 454-469. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.11.025
Gurer, Derya, Plunder, Alexis, Kirst, Frederik, Corfu, Fernando, Schmid, Stefan M. and van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J. (2018). A long-lived Late Cretaceous-early Eocene extensional province in Anatolia? Structural evidence from the Ivriz Detachment, southern central Turkey. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 481, 111-124. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.008
Gürer, Derya, van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Özkaptan, Murat, Creton, Iverna, Koymans, Mathijs R., Cascella, Antonio and Langereis, Cornelis G. (2017). Paleomagnetic constraints on the timing and distribution of Cenozoic rotations in Central and Eastern Anatolia. Solid Earth Discussions, 1-47. doi: 10.5194/se-2017-66
Gürer, Derya, van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Matenco, Liviu, Corfu, Fernando and Cascella, Antonio (2016). Kinematics of a former oceanic plate of the Neotethys revealed by deformation in the Ulukışla basin (Turkey). Tectonics, 35 (10), 2385-2416. doi: 10.1002/2016tc004206
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Maffione, Marco, Plunder, Alexis, Kaymakcı, Nuretdin, Ganerød, Morgan, Hendriks, Bart W. H., Corfu, Fernando, Gürer, Derya, de Gelder, Giovanni I. N. O., Peters, Kalijn, McPhee, Peter J., Brouwer, Fraukje M., Advokaat, Eldert L. and Vissers, Reinoud L. M. (2016). Tectonic evolution and paleogeography of the Kırşehir Block and the Central Anatolian Ophiolites, Turkey. Tectonics, 35 (4), 983-1014. doi: 10.1002/2015tc004018
Gürer, Derya, Galland, Olivier, Corfu, Fernando, Leanza, Héctor A. and Sassier, Caroline (2015). Structure and evolution of volcanic plumbing systems in fold-and-thrust belts: a case study of the Cerro Negro de Tricao Malal, Neuquén Province, Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128 (1-2), B31341.1-331. doi: 10.1130/b31341.1
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Peters, Kalijn, Maffione, Marco, Spakman, Wim, Guilmette, Carl, Thieulot, Cedric, Plumper, Oliver, Gurer, Derya, Brouwer, Fraukje M., Aldanmaz, Ercan and Kaymakci, Nuretdin (2015). Dynamics of intraoceanic subduction initiation: 2. Suprasubduction zone ophiolite formation and metamorphic sole exhumation in context of absolute plate motions. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 16 (6), 1771-1785. doi: 10.1002/2015GC005745
Sulfide-olivine Fe-Ni exchange and the origin of anomalously Ni rich magmatic sulfides
Barnes, Stephen J., Godel, Belinda, Guerer, Derya, Brenan, James M., Robertson, Jesse and Paterson, David (2013). Sulfide-olivine Fe-Ni exchange and the origin of anomalously Ni rich magmatic sulfides. Economic Geology, 108 (8), 1971-1982. doi: 10.2113/econgeo.108.8.1971
Chromite in komatiites: 3D morphologies with implications for crystallization mechanisms
Godel, Belinda, Barnes, Stephen J., Guerer, Derya, Austin, Peter and Fiorentini, Marco L. (2013). Chromite in komatiites: 3D morphologies with implications for crystallization mechanisms. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 165 (1), 173-189. doi: 10.1007/s00410-012-0804-y
Provenance of arc-related sediments in the Silverwood Group, southeast Queensland (Australia)
Rogers, A., Rosenbaum, G. and Guerer, D (2019). Provenance of arc-related sediments in the Silverwood Group, southeast Queensland (Australia). GSA Earth Sciences Student Symposium Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, November 2019.
(2020–2023) Universities Australia - Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme
Diamonds in ophiolite: Recycling deep mantle into supra-subduction zones
(2019–2023) ARC Discovery Projects
Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive
or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.
Dr Derya Guerer is not
currently available to take on new students.
Derya is moving at the end of 2023. She is not admitting any students or postdocs at UQ at this time.