Alan G Jones#
| Membership Number: | 2673 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
Present Positions
- Senior Professor Emeritus, Geophysics Section School of Cosmic Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
- President and Managing Director, Complete MT Solutions (www.complete-mt-solutions.com)
- President and Director, ManoTick GeoSolutions (www.manotick-geosolutions.com)
- Specially-Appointed Professor, School of Geophysics and Geoinformation Technology, China University of Geosciences Beijing
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- Adjunct Professor, School of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Previous Positions
- 2003 - 2015 Senior Professor & Head of Geophysics, Geophysics Section School of Cosmic Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland
- 2008 - 2015 Director, Irish Geoscience Graduate Programme (www.iggp.ie), Ireland
- 1984 - 2003 Scientist, Senior Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- 1982 - 1983 Research Fellow, University of Toronto, Canada
- 1977 - 1981 Research Fellow, University of Munster, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Inversion
- Continental tectonics
- Conductivity-diffusion
- Geophysics-petrology
- Continental dynamics
- Magnetotellurics (MT)
- Magnetotelluric tensor decomposition
- Joint inversion of seismic and EM data
- Continental mantle lithosphere
- Time series analysis
- Electromagnetic induction
- Mantle anisotropy
- Mineral properties
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Accredited a Professional Geoscientist by the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario
- 2016 Appointed Life Affiliate Member, Geological Society of South Africa
- 2016 Blaustein Visiting Professor, Stanford University
- 2010 Elected to Royal Irish Academy
- 2009 Elected to Academia Europaea
- 2009 Appointed an International Member of the Geo-Electromagnetism Committee, Chinese Geophysical Society
- 2006 Awarded Tuzo Wilson Medal of the Canadian Geophysical Union
