{"id":214,"date":"2023-09-05T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T21:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/?page_id=214"},"modified":"2023-12-24T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T15:01:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Yehuda Ben-Zion<\/h2>\n

Curriculum Vitae<\/a> (.pdf)<\/p>\n

Education:<\/b><\/h3>\n

B.Sc. Geology and Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (October 1982)
\nPh.D. Geophysics and Seismology, University of Southern California (August 1990)<\/p>\n

Present Positions:<\/h3>\n

Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California
\nDirector of the Statewide California Earthquake Center (SCEC)<\/p>\n

Professional Experience:<\/h3>\n

Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 2001 – 2004
\nAssistant Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 1997 – 2000
\nResearch Associate of Geophysics, Harvard University, 1994 – 1995
\nPost-Doctoral fellow, Harvard University (with Prof. J. R. Rice), 1991 – 1993
\nResearch Assistant, University of Southern California (with Prof. K. Aki), 1985 – 1990<\/p>\n

Visiting Positions:<\/h3>\n

Visiting Professor, Tokyo College, Japan, 2022
\nVisiting Professor, Rice University, 2017-2020
\nVisiting Professor, Ecole Normale Supe\u0301rieure, Paris, France, 2018
\nVisiting Professor, IPGP, Universite\u0301 Paris, Paris, France, 2018
\nVisiting Professor, University of Science and Technology, China, 2018
\nVisiting Professor, University of Oslo, Norway, 2017-2018
\nVisiting Professor, University Grenoble Alpes, France, 2017
\nVisiting Professor, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, 2011, 2014
\nVisiting Professor, GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, 2011-2018
\nVisiting Professor, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 2010
\nVisiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 2003
\nVisiting Professor, The Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan, 1996
\nVisiting Research Associate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1995<\/p>\n

Research Interests:<\/h3>\n

Physics of earthquakes and faults, localization of deformation, high resolution imaging of fault zones and the crust, earthquake source properties, near-fault data, crustal stress and strain fields, composition of continuous seismic waveforms, temporal changes of seismic properties, dynamic ruptures in geologically relevant structures, brittle damage rheology, spatio-temporal seismicity patterns, earthquake forecasting, analysis of seismic hazard.<\/p>\n

Classes Taught:<\/h3>\n

Processes and Changes in Science (CORE 103)
\nThe Nature of Scientific Inquiry (MDA130)
\nGeo-Systems (GEOL450)
\nModern Perspective on Crustal Dynamics (GEOL 530)
\nPhysics of Earthquakes (GEOL 553)Advanced Seismology (GEOL 552)
\nPhysics of Earthquakes Seminar (GEOL 609)
\nSeminar on Strain Localization (Geol599)<\/p>\n

Awards, Honors and Fellowships:<\/h3>\n
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  • Distinguished Sci. Seminar Series, Laurence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2023<\/li>\n
  • Beno Gutenberg Medal, European Geosciences Union, 2022<\/li>\n
  • Wiess Visiting Professor fellowship, Rice University, 2017-2020<\/li>\n
  • Visiting Professor Fellowship, Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Paris, France, 2018<\/li>\n
  • Visiting Professor fellowship, IPGP, Universit\u00e9 Paris, Paris, France, 2018<\/li>\n
  • Visiting Professor fellowship (under the High-end Foreign Experts Project, State administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, P.R. China), University of Science and Technology, China, 2017<\/li>\n
  • Visiting Professor fellowship, University of Oslo, Norway, 2017-2018<\/li>\n
  • Visiting Professor fellowship, University Grenoble Alpes, France, 2017<\/li>\n
  • Humboldt Research Prize supplement, 2017<\/li>\n
  • USC PhD mentoring award, 2016<\/li>\n
  • Frontiers in Geosciences Lecture, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2013<\/li>\n
  • Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2011<\/li>\n
  • Humboldt Research Prize, 2010-2011<\/li>\n
  • Gledden Senior Visiting Fellowship, Inst. of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, 2010<\/li>\n
  • Ranked 5th in total citations in a global survey of the ESI on “Earthquake Studies” for the period 2000-2010<\/li>\n
  • Mercator Fellowship of the German Research Society (DFG), 2003<\/li>\n
  • Ranked 4th in citations per paper and 15th in total citations in a global survey of the ESI on “Earthquake Studies” for 1993-2003<\/li>\n
  • Zumberge Research and Innovation Fellowship, Univ. of Southern California, 1998<\/li>\n
  • Visiting Professor Fellowship, Earthquake Research Inst., Univ. of Tokyo, 1996<\/li>\n
  • Geophysics Graduate Student Achievement, Univ. of Southern California, 1989<\/li>\n
  • W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowship, Univ. of Southern California, 1985-1988<\/li>\n
  • Valedictorian, Natural Sciences Faculty, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, 1982<\/li>\n
  • Natural Sciences Dean’s Fellowship, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, 1980-1982<\/li>\n
  • In top 1% of most cited Geosciences authors in the Essential Science Indicators database for the last 10 years<\/li>\n
  • Named by Research.com in top 300 scientists in Earth Science world-wide, 2023<\/li>\n
  • Over 30 invited talks and keynote lectures in conferences, seminars and workshops in the last 3 years<\/li>\n
  • Google h-index 84<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Professional Service<\/h3>\n
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    • SCEC director, 2019-present<\/li>\n
    • EGU Beno Gutenberg Medal Committee, 2022-present<\/li>\n
    • Leader, Seismology Group of SCEC, 2016-2018<\/li>\n
    • Editor of J. Geophys. Res., 2015-2022<\/li>\n
    • President, Mathematical Geophysics Committee of the IUGG, 2011-2019<\/li>\n
    • Editor of Geophys. J. Int., 2005-2015<\/li>\n
    • Guest Editor of Pure and Applied Geophys<\/em>, various time intervals in 2002-2018<\/li>\n
    • Site Visit Committee (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2015<\/li>\n
    • Site Visit Committee (University of Western Ontario, Canada), Natural Sciences
      \nand Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2013<\/li>\n
    • Co-organizer of a 2018 \u201cInternational Induced Seismicity Workshop\u201d in Banff, Canada<\/li>\n
    • Co-organizer of a 2018 conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Nizhniy, Novgorod, Russia<\/li>\n
    • Co-organizer of a 2017 workshop on \u201cFrontiers in Studies of Earthquakes and
      \nFaults\u201d in Shenzhen China<\/li>\n
    • Co-organizer of a 2016 conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Paris, France<\/li>\n
    • Co-organizer of a 2014 conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Merida, Mexico<\/li>\n
    • Co-organizer of a 2013 workshop on \u201cProperties and Processes of Crustal Fault Zones\u201d in Erice Sicily<\/li>\n
    • Co-organizer of a 2013 SAMSI workshop on \u201cDynamics of seismicity, earthquake clustering and patterns in fault networks\u201d<\/li>\n
    • Co-organizer of a 2013 BIRS workshop on \u201cStatistics and Triggering of Earthquakes\u201d<\/li>\n
    • Co-organizer of a 2012 conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Edinburgh, UK<\/li>\n
    • Co-organizer of over 30 special sessions in scientific meetings and workshops<\/li>\n
    • Science Review Panel, Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast Project,
      \n2010-2016<\/li>\n
    • Advisory Committee, The 8th Int. Workshop on Statistical Seismology, China 2013<\/li>\n
    • IASPEI representative to the Math. Geophysics Committee of IUGG, 2002-2010<\/li>\n
    • Review Panel of NASA, Cryosphere and Geophysics, 2010<\/li>\n
    • Advisory Board, IUGG conference on Mathematical Geophysics, \u201cModeling Earth
      \nDynamics: Complexity, Uncertainty and Validation\u201d, Pisa Italy, 2010<\/li>\n
    • Review Panel of NAS, USAID Middle East Regional Cooperation Program, 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Academic Advisement:<\/h3>\n
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      • Total graduate students at USC (past and present) 28<\/li>\n
      • Current PhD students at USC 4<\/li>\n
      • Total post-doctoral scholars (past and present) 8<\/li>\n
      • Current post-doctoral scholars at USC 1<\/li>\n
      • Partial supervision of additional 12 students and 4 postdocs outside USC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Honors and Awards by Students:<\/h3>\n
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        • Zhigang Peng, Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union meeting, 2002<\/li>\n
        • Zhigang Peng, Departmental seminar UCLA, 2003<\/li>\n
        • Michael Lewis, Outstanding Student Paper Award, Seismological Society of America meeting, 2005<\/li>\n
        • Neta Wechsler, Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union meeting, 2007<\/li>\n
        • Ory Dor, Invited Plenary talk, Annual meeting of the Southern California Earthquake Center, 2008<\/li>\n
        • Iain Bailey, Outstanding Student Paper Award, Seismological Society of America meeting, 2008<\/li>\n
        • Michael Lewis, Departmental seminar UCSD, 2009<\/li>\n
        • Amir Allam, Outstanding Department TA Award, 2010, 2012<\/li>\n
        • Zhigang Peng, Charles F. Richter Early Career Award of the Seismological Society of America, 2010<\/li>\n
        • Amir Allam, Outstanding College and University TA Awards, 2013<\/li>\n
        • Zach Ross, Departmental seminar UCLA, 2014<\/li>\n
        • Yaman Ozakin, Seismology lab seminar, Caltech, 2014<\/li>\n
        • Zach Ross, Seismology lab seminar, Caltech, 2015<\/li>\n
        • Pieter-Ewald Share, Outstanding Department TA Award, 2014, 2015<\/li>\n
        • Hongrui Qiu, Outstanding Department TA Award, 2015<\/li>\n
        • Zach Ross, Departmental seminar UCSC, 2015<\/li>\n
        • Niloufar Abolfathian, Outstanding Department TA Award, 2015<\/li>\n
        • Pieter-Ewald Share, Outstanding Department TA Award, 2016<\/li>\n
        • Zach Ross, USC PhD Achievement Award, 2016<\/li>\n
        • Lei Qin, Outstanding Department TA Award, 2016<\/li>\n
        • Haoran Meng, Outstanding Department TA Award, 2016<\/li>\n
        • Hongrui Qiu, Outstanding Department TA Award, 2016<\/li>\n
        • Niloufar Abolfathian, Outstanding Student Paper Award, Seismological Society of America meeting, 2017<\/li>\n
        • Pieter-Ewald Share, Green postdoc fellowship (Scripps, UCSD), 2017<\/li>\n
        • Hongrui Qiu, Seismo lab seminar Caltech, 2018<\/li>\n
        • Zach Ross, Invited talk at the US Senate on behalf of the SSA, 2019<\/li>\n
        • Zach Ross, Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award of the American Geophysical Union, 2019<\/li>\n
        • Lei Qin, Seismo lab seminar Caltech, 2019<\/li>\n
        • Zhigang Peng, Distinguished Service to SSA Award, 2020<\/li>\n
        • Malcolm White, USGS Earthquake Science Center Seminar, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":496,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-content-detail.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-214","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAbout - Yehuda Ben-Zion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/about\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About - Yehuda Ben-Zion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/about\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Yehuda Ben-Zion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-24T15:01:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/364\/2023\/10\/pic3.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/about\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/about\/\",\"name\":\"About - 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