Research interests

My current research is focused on the deformation of the lithosphere at continental margins, gathering together both geological and geophysical perspectives. Active tectonics and topography evolution and its relation with the thermal and rheological structure of the crust in the Gibraltar Arc region are key target of my research.

I have just completed my PhD thesis entitled "Seismicity, rheology and thermal structure of the crust in the Gibraltar Arc".   If you want to learn more about some of this topics click here.   My supervisors are Juan I. Soto and Jose Morales.

Recent publications

• Fernández-Ibáñez, F., Soto, J.I., Zoback, M.D. and Morales, J. (2007). Present-day stress field in the Gibraltar Arc (western Mediterranean). Accepted for publication in Journal of Geophysical Research, January 26th 2007.

• Valero-Navarro, A., Fernández-Sánchez, J.F., Medina-Castillo, A.L., Fernández-Ibáñez, F., Segura- Carretero, A., Ibáñez, J. M. and Fernández-Gutiérrez, A. (2007). A rapid, sensitive screening test for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons applied to Antarctic water. Chemosphere, 67, 903-910.

• Fernández-Ibáñez, F., Marro, G., Sánchez-Gómez, M., Román-Alpiste, M., García, M., Mhammdi, N., Vanneste, H. and Comas, M. (2006). Seismic interpretation and sidescan sonographs from the West Alboran Basin. In Interdisciplinary geoscience studies of the Gulf of Cadiz and Western Mediterranean basins (Eds. N.H. Kenyon, M.K. Ivanov, A.M. Akhmetzhanov, E.V. Kozlova), IOC Technical Series No. 70, 46-48, UNESCO.

• Fernández-Ibáñez, F., Soto, J.I. y Zoback, M.D. (2006). Estado actual de esfuerzos en Béticas y Alborán a partir del análisis de “breakouts”. Geogaceta, 40, 59-62.

• Fernández-Ibáñez, F., Pérez-López, R., Martínez-Díaz, J.J., Paredes, C., Giner-Robles, J.L., Caselli, A.T. e Ibáñez, J.M. (2005). Costa Recta beach, Deception Island, West Antarctica: a retreated scarp of a submarine fault? Antarctic Science 17(3), 418-416.