Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data Name:              GERYA Taras Nationality:     Russian Federation Date of birth:  03.08.1962 Address: Institute of Geophysics, ETH-Zurich, Sonneggstrasse 5, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Tel.:                 +41 44 6336623 Fax:                 +41 44 6331065 E-mail:            taras.gerya@erdw.ethz.ch

Education, academic degrees obtained 1984 MSc. in Geology, Polytechnic University of Tomsk, Tomsk, USSR 1990 Ph.D. in Petrology, Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR. 1999 Habilitation in Petrology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. 2008 Habilitation in Geodynamics, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

Positions held 1984-1987: Junior Researcher, Institute of Geology and Geophysics USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, USSR 1987-1990: Ph.D. student, Institute of Experimental Mineralogy Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow dist., Russia 1990-2000: Research Associate-> Senior Researcher->Head of the Laboratory of Metamorphism, Institute of Experimental Mineralogy Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow dist., Russia 1990-1999: Associate Professor, Moscow State University, Russia 2000-2004: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, Guest Scientist, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany 2004-2005: Oberassitent (Senior Research Scientist, Lecturer) Geological Institute, ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2005-2008: Oberassitent (Senior Research Scientist, Lecturer) Geophysical Institute, ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland    2008-2010: Privardozent, Geophysical Institute, ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2010-: Professor, Geophysical Institute, ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Teaching 1990-1996: Physico-Chemical Petrology, Thermobarometry, BASIC-programming, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 1997-1999: Geodynamics, Numerical modeling, C-programming, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 2004-2005: Theoretical tectonics: Geodynamics, Mathematical modeling in geology, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland 2006-: Continuum Mechanics, Numerical Modelling, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

Field Experience 1982-2000: over 20 field expeditions in different regions of Europe, Asia and Africa

Languages Russian English German French

Honors 2007: Adjunct Professor of Geology Department of Moscow State University 2008: Listed in Top 50 Russian scientists abroad, Russian Newsweek Magazine 2008: Golden Owl Price from ETH-students for excellence in teaching 2008: Top reviewer for Tectonophysics

Publications and other professional activities Peer-reviewed journal or book articles: >170 as author or co-author Monograph: Introduction to Numerical Geodynamic Modelling, Cambridge University Press Citations ISI: 4374 citations (508/691/872 citations/year in 2012/2013/2014), h-factor 39 Google Scholar: 5838 citations (634/923/1193 citations/year in 2012/2013/2014), h-factor 43 Editorial work: Associate Editor for Solid Earth and Gondwana Research; Guest Editor for International Journal of Earth Sciences, Lithos, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Gondwana Research Peer review: reviewer for >10 journals including Nature and Science

Supervising Postdocs: Diane Arcay (2006-2008) Guizhi Zhu (2008-2013) Lin Chen (2010-2011, 2013-2014) Kosuke Ueda (2012-2016) Jian Sheng (2014) Jie Liao (2015-2017) Liang Zheng (2014-2016) PhD students: Weronika Gorczyk (2004-2007) Manuele Faccenda (2006-2009) Kseniya Nikolaeva (2006-2009) Zhonhai Li (2007-2010) Ja-Ren Lin (2007-2011) Yuri Mishin (2007-2010) Gregor Golabek (2007-2010) Elena Sizova (2008-2011) Thibault Duretz (2008-2011) Bettina Baitsch-Ghirardello (2008-2013) Katharina Vogt (2009-2013) Diana Dymkova (2009-2013) Ylona van Dinther (2009-2013) Maike Schubert (2009-2013) Jie Liao (2010-2014) Ria Fischer (2012-2015) Robert Herrendörfer (2014-2017) Casper Pranger (2014-2017) Luca Dal Zilio (2015-2018) Visiting PhD students: Kenni Dinesen Petersen (2007-2008) Yuri Elesin (2007-2008) Cristina Malatesta (2008-2011) Idael Blanko (2009-2010) Christopher Gonzalez (2012-2015) Liangyu Zhu (2014-2015) MSc students: Yolanda Deubelbeiss (2005) Kosuke Ueda (2006, semester work) Rohit Nandedkar (2008, semester work) Irena Löw (2007-2008) Christoph Puethe (2011-2012) Ria Fisher (2011-2012) Robert Herrendoerfer (2013) Samuel Chapman (2013) Stefan Brändli (2014) Hanna Sumarlidadóttir (2014) Noel Amnann (2014-2015) Claudio Petrini (2015) BSc students: Curdin Cantieni (2006) David Fossati (2006) Cyrill Baumann (2007) Marcel Hegnauer (2008) Gian-Peider Moll (2008-2009) Luca Malatesta (2009) Claudio Petrini (2013) Cyrill Bösch (2014)