Innsbruck Quaternary Research Group
Research Interests
Speleothems and palaeoclimate reconstruction
Carbonate diagenesis and geochemistry
Clumped isotopes and U-Pb dating
Structurally-controlled fluid flow
Short CV
2025- Postdoc at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and the University of the Basque Country (Spain)
2023-2025 Postdoc at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Saudi Arabia)
2017-2021 Ph.D. Earth Sciences, University of Barcelona (Spain)
2015 Visiting researcher, IFP-Energies Nouvelles (France)
2014-2015 Ms.S. Geology applied to mineral and energy resources, University of Granada (Spain)
2010-2014 Bs.S. Geology, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Grants and awards
2025 Postdoctoral Research Grant, Programa de Perfeccionamiento de Personal Investigador Doctor from the Basque Goverment.
2021 Ph.D Cum laude
2017 Predoctoral Research Grant (FPI), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Spanish Government.
2015 Best course in Carbonate reservoirs (10+/10), University of Granada
Projects
2024- Temperature reconstruction at past rapid climate transitions funded by the Spanish Government
2022-2025 Fold and fault-controlled diagenesis in orogen and rift systems: implications for geothermal resources and CO2 storage (PID2021-122467NB-C22) funded by the Spanish Government
2019-2021 Fluid migration during the evolution of inverted basins and orogenic belts: Application for CO2 storage (PGC2018-093903-B-C22) funded by the Spanish Government
2017-2021 Geologia Sedimentària (2017SGR824) funded by Generalitat de Catalunya
2016-2018 Fluid migration during the evolution of an orogen: diagenetic, hydrothermal and metamorphic characterization for gas and CO2 storage and resource exploration (CGL2015-66335-C2-1-R) funded by the Spanish Government
Publications
Muñoz-López, D., Koeshidayatullah, A., Bover-Arnal, T., Herlambang, A., Martín-Martín, J. D., Salas, R., Humphrey, J. D., Al-Ramadan, K., 2025. Isotopic record of Aptian third-order sea-level trends in platform margin carbonates: implications for sequence stratigraphic analysis. Journal of Sedimentary Research, https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2024.124
Gaduwang, A. K., Muñoz-López, D., Salisu, A. M., Tawabini, B., Al-Ramadan, K., Koeshidayatullah, A., 2025. Microfacies control on geomechanical properties of unconventional carbonate reservoirs: insights from a middle jurassic outcrop analogue in Saudi Arabia. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 15, 38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13202-025-01930-y.
Muñoz-López, D., Lu, C., Li, W., Corlett, H., Hollis, C., Swart, P. K., Koeshidayatullah, A., 2024. What is the source of magnesium in hydrothermal dolomites? New insights from coupling δ26Mg - ∆47 isotopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 638, 118760. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118760.
Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Muñoz-López, D., Moragas, M., Cantarero, I., Travé, A., 2023. Fluid evolution from extension to compression in the Pyrenean Fold Belt and BasqueCantabrian Basin: a review. Earth Sci. Rev. 243, 104494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104494.
Ramirez-Perez, P., Cantarero, I., Cofrade, G., Muñoz-López, D., Cruset, D., Sizun, J.P., Travé, A., 2023b. Petrological, petrophysical and petrothermal study of a folded sedimentary succession: the Oliana anticline (Southern Pyrenees), outcrop analogue of a geothermal reservoir. Glob Planet Change 222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104057.
Ramirez-Perez, P., Cantarero, I., Cofrade, G., Muñoz-López, D., Cruset, D., Sizun, J.P., Travé, A., 2023a. Petrophysical and petrothermal dataset of the sedimentary succession in the Oliana anticline (Southern Pyrenees). Data in Brief 48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109086.
Muñoz-López, D., Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Cantarero, I., Benedicto, A., Mangenot, X., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Beranoaguirre, A., Travé, A., 2022. Spatio-temporal variation of fluid flow behavior along a fold: the Bóixols-Sant Corneli anticline (Southern Pyrenees) from U-Pb dating and structural, petrographic and geochemical constraints. Mar. Pet. Geol. 143, 105788 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
Muñoz-López, D., Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Cantarero, I., Benedicto, A., Mangenot, X., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Beranoaguirre, A., Travé, A., 2022. U-Pb dating and geochemical dataset of fracture-filling calcite veins from the Bóixols-Sant Corneli anticline (Southern Pyrenees). Data in Brief. 45, 108636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108636.
Sun, X., Gomez-Rivas, E., Cruset, D., Alcalde, J., Muñoz-López, D., Cantarero, I., Martín-Martín, J.D., John, C.M., Travé, A., 2022. Origin and distribution of calcite cements in a folded fluvial succession: the Puig-reig anticline (south-Eastern Pyrenees). Sedimentology 69 (5), 2319–2347. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12994.
Sun, X., Gomez-Rivas, E., Alcalde, J., Martín-Martín, J.D., Ma, C., Muñoz-López, D., Cruset, D., Cantarero, I., Griera, A., Travé, A., 2021. Fracture distribution in a folded fluvial succession: the Puig-reig anticline (south-eastern Pyrenees). Mar. Petrol. Geol. 132, 105169 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105169.
Muñoz-López, D., Cruset, D., Cantarero, I., Benedicto, A., John, C.M., Travé, A., 2020b. Fluid dynamics in a thrust fault inferred from petrology and geochemistry of calcite veins: an example from the Southern Pyrenees. Geofluids, 8815729. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8815729.
Muñoz-López, D., Alías, G., Cruset, D., Cantarero, I., Jonh, C.M., Travé, A., 2020a. Influence of basement rocks on fluid evolution during multiphase deformation: the example of the Estamariu thrust in the Pyrenean Axial Zone. Solid Earth, 1–39. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-2020-65.
Nardini, N., Muñoz-López, D., Cruset, D., Cantarero, I., Martín-Martín, J.D., Benedicto, A., Gomez-Rivas, E., John, C.M., Travé, A., 2019. From early contraction to post-folding fluid evolution in the frontal part of the Bóixols thrust sheet (southern Pyrenees) as revealed by the texture and geochemistry of calcite cements. Minerals 9 (2), 117. https://doi.org/10.3390/min9020117
Cruset, D., Cantarero, I., Vergés, J., John, C.M., Muñoz-López, D., Travé, A., 2018. Changes in fluid regime in syn-orogenic sediments during the growth of the south Pyrenean fold and thrust belt. Glob. Planet. Chang. 171, 207–224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.11.001.
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