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
