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Dylan Rood directs application cosmogenic isotopes accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) studies in Earth sciences, focusing on applied Earth surface processes, active tectonics, climate change, and earthquake hazards. His expertise combines quantitative field laboratory methods that produce high-quality innovative research, funded by public agencies and industry (approximately £2M since 2008, with 3 NERC and 3 NSF awards). During his time at Imperial, he has raised over £100K in research funding annually and published extensively in top international journals, with a total of 113 peer-reviewed papers since 2009, averaging more than 10 papers per year and achieving a cumulative total of 3650 citations with an h-index of 35. Rood currently serves as the Director of the CosmIC Laboratory at Imperial and organizes the Surface Processes Research Group, while also being a founding member of the Imperial Centre for Geohazards. He coordinates the teaching of 4 undergraduate courses with a strong focus on immersive field classes, receiving excellent feedback from students, and has supervised numerous graduate students.
Imperial College London • London, England, United Kingdom
Lecturer for Surface Processes class, advanced sedimentology, structural geology field class in the Spanish Pyrenees, and Applied Geomorphology class including GIS-based practicals.
Imperial College London • London, England, United Kingdom
Taught undergraduate courses in Earth Science.
University of Glasgow & AMS Laboratory, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre • Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Advised undergraduate and graduate students and taught undergraduate courses and field classes.
University of California at Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute • Santa Barbara, California, USA
Advised graduate student researchers.
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory • Livermore, California, USA
University of California at Irvine • Irvine, California, USA
Instructed undergraduate courses on Natural Disasters.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory • Livermore, California, USA
University of California at Santa Barbara • Santa Barbara, California, USA
Taught undergraduate courses including Introduction to Field Methods, Optical Mineralogy, and Sedimentary Petrology.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.