The Tectonics Research Group at KSU
Chris Rowan (Assistant Professor)
Chris caught the geology bug whilst a Natural Sciences undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, and has been exploring the world and the geological timescale with his rock hammer and sampling drill ever since. After gaining his PhD at the University of Southampton, he spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Johannesburg and the University of Edinburgh, and was most recently a CIFAR Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago before moving to an Assistant Professorship at Kent State University at the beginning of 2013.
Chris writes about various geological topics on his personal blog Highly Allochthonous, and is also active on Twitter.
Chris’s Curriculum Vitae (pdf) | Publications
Lucy Dyer (Graduate Student)
Chenjian Fu (Graduate Student)
I gained my MS degree in structural geology from Peking University, in addition to a BS degree in marine science from China University of Geosciences – Beijing. My current research interests include dynamics of lithospheric plates, mantle and core-mantle boundary, particularly in reconstructing regional (e.g. the Tarim Large Igneous Province of NW China) and global tectonic evolution. I use both numerical and observational approaches for problem solving, and many data processing and visualization software programs (e.g. GMT, Matlab, GPlates, ArcGIS, GMAP) out of my great passion for combining modern technology in geoscience research.
Former Members
Joe Wislocki
As an undergraduate research assistant from 2015-2017, Joe was instrumental in helping to build and refine our analogue sandbox model. He is now an MS student at Ohio State University.
Matt Harding
Matt successfully defended his MS Geology Thesis, “A Geophysical Study of the Upper Silurian Salina Group”, in April 2017.