Dr. Robert Shcherbakov

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Curriculum Vitae [full pdf version]

EXPERIENCE

08/2007–present, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

01/2003–08/2007, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Computational Science & Engineering and Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A.

09/2002–01/2003, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.

08/1998–08/2002, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.

12/1993–07/1998, Research Associate, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.

EDUCATION

08/98–08/02, Ph.D., Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.

Major: Geophysics (Advisor: Prof. Donald L. Turcotte)

Minors: Computer Science (Prof. Bart Selman); Seismology and Tectonics (Prof. Larry Brown)

Thesis: On Modeling of Geophysical Problems, 209p.

10/93–02/96, Candidate of Sciences, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.

09/87–06/92, M.S. magna cum laude in Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Memberships: American Geophysical Union; Seismological Society of America.

Reviewer for the following journals: Geophysical Research Letters; Tectonophysics; Seismology; Geophysical Journal International; G-Cubed; EOS; Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences; Electronic Geosciences.

Co-convener on the following AGU meetings:

2006 – NG41A, NG51B: Spatiotemporal Evolution of Seismicity.

2005 – NG31A, NG33A: Physics of Relaxation Processes in Solid Materials.

2004 – NG22A, NG31A: Forecasting and Prediction of Complex Nonlinear Earth Systems.

2003 – NG12C, NG41B: From Microscale to Macroscale: Models for Material Damage Mechanics and Earth System Dynamics, and Their Relation to Seismicity and Earthquakes.

Assistant Professor

PhD, Cornell University, 2002