Ian Main#
| Membership Number: | 6338 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/imain/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7031-6746 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000,07 Professor in Seismology and Rock Physics, University of Edinburgh
- 1996,07 Reader in Seismology and Rock Physics, University of Edinburgh
- 1989,04 Lecturer in Seismology and Rock Physics, University of Edinburgh
- 1985,09 Lecturer in Geophysics, University of Reading, UK
- 1980,10 Part-time lecturer in Physics, Napier College, Edinburgh, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantification of natural hazards
- Catastrophic failure events, from earthquakes, rock fracture, and volcanic eruptions to failure of building materials and bridges
- Analysis of population dynamics of localised brittle failure as a complex, non-linear (unreasonable) system
- Fluid-rock interactions and fluid flow involving fractures in the subsurface
Honours and Awards
- 1997 Bullerwell lecture in Geophysics (British Geophysical Association)
- 2009 Elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE, Scotland’s National Academy)
- 2011 Scottish Government/RSE research support fellowship
- 2014 Louis Néel Medal of the European Union of Geosciences (Rock Physics)
- 2019 Ed Lorenz lecture in Non-linear Geophysics at the centennial meeting of the American Geophysical Union
