Paul Tackley#
| Membership Number: | 5287 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://erdw.ethz.ch/en/people/profile.paul-tackley.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4878-621X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 - present Professor, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland
- 2003 - 2005 Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- 1999 - 2003 Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- 1994 - 1999 Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- 1990 - 1994 Research Assistant, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
- 1987 - 1989 Research & Development Engineer, Thorn EMI Electronics Ltd., Defence Systems Division, Feltham, Middlesex, U.K.
Fields of Scholarship
- High performance parallel supercomputers
- Structure, dynamics and evolution of Earth and other terrestrial planets
- Mantle convection, lithospheric dynamics and plate tectonics
- Development of methods for numerical simulation of planetary processes
- Lithosphere dynamics, mantle dynamics, planetary dynamics, planetary differentiation and extra-solar planets
Honours and Awards
- 1997 Packard Foundation Faculty Fellowship
- 1995 Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship
- 1994 Inoue Foundation Fellowship, Japan
- 1994 Clauser Prize
- 1989 Gutenberg Fellowship
- 2017 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
