Gerald Schubert#


Gerald Schubert
Membership Number:2633
Membership type:FOREIGN
Section:EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES
Elected:2009
Main Country of Residence:UNITED STATES
Homepage(s):http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~schubert/biography.html




Present and Previous Positions
  • Professor Emeritus of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA
  • 1974 Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles (1974 present)
  • 1970 - 1974 Associate Professor, Department of Geophysics and Space Physics, University of California, Los Angeles *1966 - 1970 Assistant Professor, Department of Geophysics and Space Physics, University of California, Los Angeles
  • 1965, 1966 National Academy of Sciences National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
  • 1965 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Research Lab., Whippany, New Jersey
  • 1961, 1965 Head, Advanced Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Department, Instructor in Nuclear Reactor Physics, U.S. Naval Nuclear Power School, Mare Island, California

Fields of Scholarship
  • Physics of the earth and planets
  • Dynamics of planetary interiors and atmosphere
  • Evolution of the earth and planets
  • Mantle convection
  • Magnetic fields of the earth and planets
  • Planetary dynamos and the geodynamo

Honours and Awards
  • 2009 - 2010 Sackler Lecturer, Tel Aviv University
  • 2009 Foreign Member, Academia Europaea
  • 2008 Chair of the Geophysics Section of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 Invited Lecturer, Kobe International School of Planetary Sciences
  • 2004 - 2006 President of the American Geophysical Union planetary Sciences Section
  • 2004 Fellow, Institute of Physics
  • 2003 ISI Highly cited Researcher
  • 2002 Birch Lecturer, Fall meeting of the American Geophysical union
  • 2002 Member, National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 President-Elect, Planetary Sciences Section, American Geophysical Union
  • 2002 Harry Hess Medalist, American Geophysical Union
  • 2001 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • July 1, 2000 - present Chair, Department of Earth and Space Sciences
  • Fall 1999 American Geophysical Union Special Session, Dynamics of the Atmospheres and Interiors of the Terrestrial Planets: A Celebration of Gerald Schubert on his 60th Birthday
  • January 27, 2000 Thomas A. Mutch Lecturer, Brown University
  • 2002 - 2003 Sackler Scholar, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  • 1999 Visiting Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, England
  • July 1, 1995 - June 30, 1996, June 1 - July 30, 1997 )Interim Director, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA
  • June 30 - July 5, 1996 Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Composition, Structure, and Dynamics of the Earth’s Interior, Plymouth State College, Plymouth New Hampshire
  • 1996 NASA Group Achievement Award to Galileo Probe Atmospheric Structure Instrument Team
  • 1996 NASA Group Achievement Award to Project Galileo Team
  • 1992 NASA Group Achievement Award to Magellan Science Group Radar Scientists
  • 1980 NASA Group Achievement Award to Pioneer Venus Orbiter Science Team
  • 1989 Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Guggenheim
  • 1989 Visiting Scientist, Rutgers Supercomputer Visiting Faculty Program, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers
  • 1982, 1983 Visiting Professor, Berman Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 1975 James B. MacElwane Award of the American Geophysical Union
  • 1975 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
  • 1975 American Geophysical Union Macelwane Award
  • 1975 Visiting Professor, University of Paris, Orsay
  • 1972 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
  • 1969 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship
  • 1969 Fulbright Travel Grant
  • 1965 NAS NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 1961 Bachelor of Engineering Physics with Distinction


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