Meet our team
We are an international group of researchers joined by a shared passion for geoscience and helping our peers by making free high-quality tools.
Team members
The core team working across our research themes:
Leonardo Uieda
- PI / Lecturer • University of Liverpool, UK
- Pronouns: he/him
- Email: Leonardo.Uieda@liverpool.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0001-6123-9515
- Website: www.leouieda.com

India Uppal
- PhD student • University of Liverpool, UK
- Pronouns: she/her
- Email: I.Uppal@liverpool.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0003-3531-2656
- Project: Improving estimates of Antarctic geothermal heat flow from geophysical data

Gelson Ferreira
- PhD student • Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Pronouns: he/him
- Email: gelson.ferreira@iag.usp.br
- ORCID: 0000-0002-5695-4239
- Project: Micropaleomagnetism

Collaborators
Research is never done in a vacuum! We are proud to collaborate with world-leading researchers:
Santiago Soler
- Postdoctoral Researcher • University of British Columbia, Canada
- Pronouns: he/him
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9202-5317
- Website: www.santisoler.com

Vanderlei C. Oliveira Jr.
- Researcher • Observatório Nacional, Brazil
- ORCID: 0000-0002-6338-4086
- Website: www.pinga-lab.org

Valéria C. F. Barbosa
- Researcher • Observatório Nacional, Brazil
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9767-6044
- Website: www.pinga-lab.org

Ricardo I. F. Trindade
- Professor • Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9848-9550

Alumni
These are some of the people who passed through the lab and have since moved on (only those who have added themselves):
Santiago Soler
- PhD student • Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9202-5317
- Project: Metodologías y herramientas computacionales para el procesamiento y modelado de datos gravimétricos

Laura Nicholls
- Undergraduate student • University of Liverpool, UK
- Pronouns: she/her
- Project: An open-source Python implementation of the gravitational fields of ellipsoids

Sarah Margrethe Askevold
- Undergraduate student • University of Liverpool, UK
- Pronouns: she/her
- Project: An open-source Python implementation of k-nearest-neighbor interpolation
