Paul Tackley
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Paul Tackley has been Professor for Geophysical Fluid Dynamics in the Institute of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences since 2005. He is a member of the ETH Research Commission, where he chairs subcommission I. From 2013-2016 he was the study director of the Department of Earth Sciences. From 2010-2014 he served as Head of the Institute of Geophysics. He was born in 1965 in Rugby, UK. Paul Tackley got his BA in Natural Sciences (Physics major) 1987 from the University of Cambridge, UK, (1st Class Honors). 1991 he got his MSc in Geophysics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA and in 1993 a M.A. Natural Sciences (Physics major) from the University of Cambridge. He earned his PhD in Geophysics at Caltech in 1994.
Research Interest
Structure, dynamics and evolution of Earth and other terrestrial planets
