Joe Emmings

Services Consultancy Manager at Geotek

Daventry, England, United Kingdom

About

Joe is a multi-disciplinary geoscientist. He is bilingual in R and python for geoscience applications, and is a champion of data science and machine learning in the Earth sciences. Joe advocates taking a process-oriented perspective: the subsurface is dynamic, it can be explained in terms of fundamental building blocks, and is a function of physical, chemical and biological processes. Joe has authored 20+ peer reviewed papers and is a peer reviewer for journals including Nature Geoscience (2022, 2023). In his current role, Joe leads the development, provision and execution of consultancy services attached to data collected using Geotek core and cuttings scanner technologies.

Experience

  • Services Consultancy Manager at Geotek Limited
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    I lead the development, provision and execution of consultancy services attached to data collected using Geotek core and cuttings scanner technologies. I am also the acting principal data scientist in the consultancy team.

  • R&D Team Lead at VIRIDIEN
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    I led a brilliant team of data scientists and researchers in the Geology group at Viridien (formerly CGG.)

  • CGG (Llandudno, Wales, United Kingdom)
    • R&D Team Lead
      Sep 2023 - Jun 2024 · 10 mos

    • Senior Research Scientist
      May 2021 - Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      I was a research lead, responsible for development of new geo-analytical techniques and workflows.

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at British Geological Survey
    Apr 2018 - May 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    National Capability (NERC/UKRI) funded post-doc specialising in UK black shale geochemistry, data science and machine learning.

  • Honorary Fellow at University of Leicester
    May 2019 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs