Present position: Associate Professor (Lektor) Geological Institute (new name: Geology Section, Dept. of Geography & Geology) University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark Tel: +45-4675 2438 / 3532 2473 Fax: +45-3314 8322 E-mail: irina@geo.ku.dk www.geo.ku.dk
Honors: Academia Europaea (elected Member, 2007) Royal Astronomical Society London (elected Fellow, 2000)
Education: 2007 Dr. Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 1987 PhD in Geophysics; Inst. Physics of the Earth, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR 1984 BS & MS in Physics, Physics Department, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR.
Employment: Since 2005 Lektor (Associate Professor), Dept. Geography and Geology, Univ. Copenhagen; 2003-2004 Senior Visiting Researcher (full-time), U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA; 2002 Physicien Adjoint, EOST, l'Universite Strasbourg, France; 1999-2001 Forskare (Research Scientist), Uppsala University, Sweden; 1997-1999 Head of Research group, Leading Research Scientist, Inst. of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; 1987-1997 Junior, then Senior Research Scientist, Inst. of Physics of the Earth, Russ. Acad. Sci., Moscow, Russia
Awards and travel awards: 1995-2002 Visiting scientist, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA (ca. 4 months each year; the total exceeds 3 years); 1998 Visiting scientist, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France; 1998 Visiting scientist, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada; 1993 Visiting scientist, Technical University, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany; 1993&1994 Soros International Science Foundation (Basic Research Awards in Russia); 1990 USSR Academy of Sciences (IPE Award for the Best Research Work of Young Scientists) Travel awards of the European Geophysical Society (1994, 1995, 1996); American Geophysical Union (1994); Geological Society of America (1997, 2001, 2004); Swedish National Research Council (2001); Professional memberships: AGU, GSA, EGU, EGS, RAS
International Committee and Administrative Experience: 1999-2001 European Science Foundation program EUROPROBE (a part of ILP), Science Coordinator 2002-2003 Irish National Basic Research Grant Assessment, Earth Science Panel member 2005-2006 INTAS (Int. Org. for Promotion of Cooperation with NIS scientists) Research Grant Assessment, evaluator 2006-present Swedish Research Council, Panel member in Geology and Geophysics 2006-2008 33 International Geological Congress, Science program coordinator in Solid Earth Geophysics 2008- NSF, external grant evaluator
Other professional community services: 2006- present Editorial Board Member, Tectonophysiscs 1999- present Editorial Board Member, Journal of Geodynamics 2001-2002 Guest senior editor, Special Issue of Tectonophysics, v. 358, No. 1-4 (2002). 2008- Guest senior editor, Special Issue of Tectonophysics. Since 1999 Reviewer to more than 10 international journals
Organizer, Convener and co-convener of symposia at: EGS: 1995 – co-convener; 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 - organizer and convener; IASPEI: 2001 – co-convener; GSA: 2001 – co-convener; EGS-EUG-AGU: 2003 - organizer and convener; AGU: 2007 – co-convener; EGU: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 - organizer and convener. IGC: 2008 - organizer and conviner, EUROPROBE (1999-2001): Organizer and scientific coordinator of 9 research workshops (80 to 250 participants each); Organizer and scientific secretary of 5 EUROPROBE scientific steering and management meetings; Organizer and scientific secretary of International Symposium "Future of EUROPROBE" (2000).
Major invited and key-note papers: 1997 Nordic Symposium on Petrophysics and Reservoir Modeling, Goteborg, Sweden 1998 Symposium on mantle xenoliths, kimberlites, and carbonatites, Montreal, Canada 1998 Mainz University, Germany 1999 Copenhagen University, Denmark 2000 Royal Astron. Society Annual Meeting, London, U.K. 2000 US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA 2002 Workshop of Intern. Lithosphere Project, Tiengen-Waldshut, Germany 2002 ETH-Zurich, Switzerland 2002 EUROPROBE Summary Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden 2003 Rice University, Houston, TX, USA 2004 McGill University, Montreal, Canada 2004 Danish Academy of Science and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark 2005 University of California, Berkeley 2005 “TOPO-Europe” and “EuroArray” initiatives in Earth Sciences in Europe, Budapest 2005 Academia Europaea /TOPO-Europe Workshop, Heidelberg, Germany 2006 EGU, Union Session, invited lecture 2007 GFZ, Potsdam, Germany 2007 EGU, Union Session, invited lecture 2007 TOPO-Europe Workshop, Rome, Italy, invited lecture 2008 International Geological Congress, invited lecture External funding: Since 1997 Several personal research grants with the world-leading companies in the diamond-exploration industry; 2005-2006 "Secular evolution of the continental lithosphere", Carlsbergfondet, Denmark, 1.1 mln. kronor. 2007-2009 "Secular evolution of the continental lithosphere", Carlsbergfondet, Denmark, 1.7 mln. kronor.
Publications and presentations: • ca. 35 peer-reviewed publications, ca. 20 publications since 2001. • 1 special volume published, another one is in progress; • More than 20 invited talks and ca. 150 presentations with abstracts at the leading international meetings, • ca. 600 pp. of reports to the diamond-exploration industry.