Richard Sinding-Larsen has been Professor of Resource Geology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) since 1980, Emeritus since 2012. His research focuses on the estimation of undiscovered
mineral resources, with particular attention to the process of discovering metals and petroleum. He has a long-standing interest in deposit modelling and pioneered probabilistic assessment of Caledonian massive sulphide resources and initiated the development of methodology and tools (GeoX, now owned by Schlumberger) used as decision support for risk, resource and economic evaluation of exploration. Sinding-Larsen’s current research interest is in how to appraise and quantify resource uncertainties within mineral and petroleum systems whose components
are logically related in complex ways – such as sulphides linked to volcanic spreading ridges beneath the oceans and petroleum systems.
