Professor Greg Skilbeck retired from the University of Technology Sydney in 2019. He is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor Research. Professor Skilbeck was a member of the academic staff of UTS from 1987 until his retirement in 2019 as assistant Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research). He was also Professor of Earth Sciences in the Faculty of Science and a former Associate Dean Research in Science (2007-2014), and Head of Department (Environmental Science) (1996-2006).

Prof Skilbeck is a sedimentary geologist with expertise in facies analysis, sedimentary petrology, diagenesis and physical properties, sedimentary basin analysis, and marine geoscience and palaeoclimate studies. After graduating from Sydney University in the 1980, he was employed in the Australian petroleum exploration industry where he was involved in exploration in the Cooper Basin and Northwest Shelf. He has experience with 2D and 3D seismic and sequence stratigraphic interpretation and qualitative and quantitative geophysical log analysis. In 1994 Greg carried out a petroleum evaluation project in the PRC for the Earth Science Resources Institute (University of South Carolina), which involved assessment of the extensional basins along the convergent Pacific margin of China.

His research interests ranged from sedimentation associated with convergent margins, specifically in reconstructing basin forming-processes from stratigraphic sequences, to palaeooceanography and climate studies. In order to provide modern constraints on these studies, he participated in the 1995 Mediterranean tectonics leg of the Ocean Drilling Program (Leg 161). He is currently a member of the Code for Ocean Drilling Data (CODD - www.codd-home.net) research group.

Professor Skilbeck has conducted research on Late Quaternary palaeoclimatic and sea level variability from lake sediments in NSW and Hawai'i and oceanic sediments in the central and eastern Pacific, with a particular emphasis on reconstructing palaeo-El Nino. He participated in the eastern tropical Pacific deep biosphere leg of the ODP in 2002, sailing as a physical properties specialist. He is an International Atomic Energy Agency CRP Project Leader on the use of radioisotopes in the study of El Nino (2005-2009). He has participated in four scientific research voyages, 2 on the JOIDES Resolution (1996 and 2002), one on the Marion DuFresne (2006) as an instructor on the University of the Sea, and one to Macquarie Island on the Aurora Australis (2007).

Although Greg retired from the University in 2019, but remains engaged through the alumni association, the Emeritus Professors, and the Whiskey Club.