Curriculum Vitae

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Badische Neueste Nachrichten Article: BNN, 2010

Education

• BSc in Mathematics (summa cum laude), Baku State University, Baku, Azerbaijan, 1982
• MSc in Mathematical Physics (summa cum laude), Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 1983
• PhD in Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 1990
• DSc in Geophysics (Habilitation), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 1997
• PD (Venia Legendi) in Computational Geodynamics (Umhabilitation), BGU-KIT, 2024

Professional Experience (selected)

• Invited Professor, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France (2005-2016)
• Invited Lecturer, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (2001-2015)
• Invited Professor, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Beijing, China (2014)
• Senior Scientist, Geophysical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe (2001-2012)
• Invited Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (2007-2008)
• Invited Research Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA (2003)
• Royal Society Visiting Scholar, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge, UK (2000)
• Visiting Scientist, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden (1998-2000)
• Visiting Scientist, Centre for Parallel Computer, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (1996-1999)
• Chief Scientist and Research Professor, Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (2008-2022)

Awards and Honors (selected)

• Fellow, International Science Council (ISC), 2022
• Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2019
• Ambassador Award, AGU, 2019
• Fellow, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), 2019
• Secretary, International Science Council (ISC), 2018-2021 (elected)
• Member, Academia Europaea (AE), 2017
• Honorary Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society, 2013
• Axford Distinguished Lecture Award, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 2012
• International Award, AGU, 2009
• Secretary General, IUGG, 2007-2019 (elected)
• The Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship Award, 2001

Research Interests

TECTONIC STRESS & SEISMICITY. Nonlinear block-and-fault dynamics of the lithosphere and earthquakes. Tectonic stress analysis and modeling. Seismic hazard and risk assessment. Applications: Caucasus, Tibet-Himalayan, SE-Carpathians (Vrancea), Apennines.
VOLCANIC FLOWS. Reconstruction of thermal and dynamic characteristics of volcanic lava from surface thermal measurements. Numerical modelling of lava flow with a ruptured crust. Two- and three-dimensional time-dependent and steady state modeling.
MANTLE DYNAMICS. Thermal plume evolution. Mantle-lithosphere interaction. Lithosphere-asthenosphere delamination. Continental collision. Pacific plate subduction and its evolution.
SEDIMENTARY BASINS. Mechanisms of basin evolution. Geothermal evolution. Salt tectonics and dynamic reconstruction of salt structures. Link between mantle dynamics and basin evolution. Application: North American, East European, and Siberian basins; Pricaspian salt basin and Gulf of Mexico.
COMPUTATIONAL GEODYNAMICS & METHODS. Development of methodology and software for geodynamic modeling using finite element methods, finite difference methods, finite volume methods, direct and inverse methods. Data assimilation. Data-driven numerical modeling.
RISK AND SUSTAINABILITY. Studies of related to disaster risk reduction, risk assessment, preparedness, and the role of science in risk reduction. Science policy and diplomacy. History of Earth and space sciences.

Recent Projects

Books

Full list of publications can be viewed at: Publication list A. Ismail-Zadeh

Ismail-Zadeh, A., F. Castelli, D. Jones, and S. Sanchez (eds.) Applications of Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems in the Earth Sciences, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023.

Ismail-Zadeh, A., Kijko, A., Nekrasova, A., and Shebalin, P. (eds.) Lithosphere Dynamics and Earthquake Hazard Forecasting, Special Issue of Surveys in Geophysics, Springer-Nature, 2022.

Ismail-Zadeh, A., and Joselyn, J.A. (eds.) The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics: from different spheres to a common globe, Special Issue of the History of Geo- and Space Sciences, Copernicus Publications, Goettingen, 2019.

Ismail-Zadeh, A.T., Korotkii A., and Tsepelev, I. Data-driven Numerical Modelling in Geodynamics: Methods and Applications. Springer, Heidelberg, 2016.

Ismail-Zadeh, A., and Cutter, S. (eds.) Disaster Risks Research and Assessment to Promote Risk Reduction and Management. International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Sciences Council (ISSC), Paris. 2015. Available at the ICSU web site; http://www.icsu.org/science-for-policy/disaster-risk/documents/DRRsynthesisPaper_2015.pdf  (retrieved on 01.08.2015)

Ismail-Zadeh, A.T., Fucugauchi, J., Kijko, A., Takeuchi, K., and Zaliapin, I. (eds.) Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014.

Ismail-Zadeh, A. T., and Tackley, P. J., Computational Methods for Geodynamics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010.

Ismail-Zadeh, A. (ed.) Computational Seismology and Geodynamics, Vol. 8, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 2008.

Ismail-Zadeh, A. T., and T. Beer (eds.), Georisk: Interactions between Science and Society. Springer, Heidelberg, 2007.

Ismail-Zadeh, A. T. (ed.) Recent Geodynamics, Georisk and Sustainable Development in the Black Sea to Caspian Sea Region. American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, vol. 825, Melville, New York, 2006.

Beer, T. and Ismail-Zadeh, A. T. (eds.) Risk Science and Sustainability. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2003.