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Dylan Rood

COMET Associate: Earthquakes and Tectonics
Imperial College London

Area of expertise: Tectonic geomorphology, Cosmogenic isotopes

Associated projects: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/d.rood

Dylan Rood is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. He did his PhD at University of California, Santa Barbara, and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is a leader in the application of cosmogenic isotopes and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) to studies in the Earth sciences, specifically as applied to Earth surface processes, active tectonics, climate change, and earthquake hazards. His expertise combines quantitative field and laboratory methods to produce high-quality innovative research, which is funded by public agencies and industry (~£2M since 2008, including 3 NERC and 3 NSF awards). He has published in the highest-profile international journals in his field and across the sciences (130 peer-reviewed papers since 2009, including 1 in Nature, 3 in Science, 2 in PNAS, 2 in Nature Geoscience, and 6 in Geology, with a total of 3650 citations and h-index 42). He is currently the Director of the CosmIC Laboratory at Imperial, organizer of the Surface Processes Research Group, and a founding member of the Imperial Centre for Geohazards

Email: [email protected]

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4425-4702

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