John Platt: Curriculum Vitae

Education

B.A. in Geology: Oxford University, June 1969.

Ph.D. in Geology: University of California at Santa Barbara, December 1973.
Thesis title: The petrology, structure and geologic history of the Catalina Schist terrain, southern California. Advisor: Professor C. Hopson.

Employment

University Lecturer, the City University of Amsterdam, August 1975 – March 1979.

University Lecturer, Oxford University, April 1979 – December 1994.

Tutorial Fellow, St Anne’s College, Oxford, April 1979 – December 1994.

Yates-Goldsmid Professor, University College London, January 1995 – August 2004.

Professor of Geology, University of Southern California, August 2004 to present.

Membership of Scientific Associations

Fellow of the Geological Society of London

Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Member of the American Geophysical Union

Awards

University Graduate Fellowship, University of California, 1971-1972.

University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Adelaide University, 1974-1975.

Nuffield One-Year Science Research Fellowship, 1984-1985.

Wollaston Fund, Geological Society of London, 1988.

Best Paper Award in Structural Geology and Tectonics, Geological Society of America, 1989.

British Council/Monbusho Visiting Professorship in Japan, January-April 1990.

Supernumerary Fellowship of St Anne’s College, Oxford (elected 1995).

USC College General Education Teaching Award, 2008

EGU Stephan Mueller Medal, awarded April 2018.

Scientific service

1983-1991: Associate Editor of Journal of Structural Geology.

1991-1999: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Structural Geology.

1994-1996 and 2004-2007: Member of the Editorial Board of Geology.

1998-2004: Member, Earth Science Peer Review Committee of the NERC (UK).

2004-2010 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Island Arc.

2014: Member, NSF Earth Sciences review panel for Tectonics.