Yehuda Ben-Zion is the Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center and a Professor of Earth Sciences at USC. His research is focused on physics of earthquakes and faults using theory, simulations, and observations. He published over 300 papers (current google h-index 79), edited eight books, and gave over 30 invited talks and keynote lectures in conferences, seminars and workshops in the last 3 years. Ben-Zion is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union since 2011. He was awarded the Humboldt Research Prize in Geophysics (2010, 2017) and the Beno Gutenberg Medal of the European Geosciences Union (2022). Ben-Zion was the President of the Mathematical Geophysics Committee of the IUGG, 2011-2019. He was an editor of J. Geophys. Res (2015-2022) and Geophys. J. Int. (2005-2015).
Education:
B.Sc. Geology and Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (October 1982).
Ph.D. Geophysics and Seismology, University of Southern California (August 1990).
Present Position:
Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California
Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center
Professional Experience:
Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 2001 – 2004
Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 1997 – 2000
Research Associate of Geophysics, Harvard University, 1994 – 1995.
Post-Doctoral fellow, Harvard University (with Prof. J. R. Rice), 1991 – 1993.
Research Assistant, University of Southern California (with Prof. K. Aki), 1985 – 1990.
Visiting positions:
Visiting Professor, Rice University, 2017-present.
Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, 2018
Visiting Professor, IPGP, Université Paris, Paris, France, 2018.
Visiting Professor, University of Science and Technology, China, 2018
Visiting Professor, University of Oslo, Norway, 2017-2018.
Visiting Professor, University Grenoble Alps, France, 2017.
Visiting Professor, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, 2011, 2014.
Visiting Professor, GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, 2011-2018.
Visiting Professor, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 2010.
Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 2003.
Visiting Professor, The Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan, 1996.
