Michael Searle#
| Membership Number: | 4978 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/people/searle |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6904-6398 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1972 - 1975 University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. B.Sc. Geology.
- 1976 - 1980 Open University, Milton Keynes. Ph.D. entitled "The metamorphic sheet and underlying volcanic rocks beneath the Semail Ophiolite in the northern Oman Mountains of Arabia".
- 1980 - 1984 Memorial University of Newfoundland, St.Johns, Newfoundland, Canada. Post-doctoral Research Fellow (NSERC)
- 1984 - 1989 Leicester University, UK. Post-doctoral Research Fellow NERC grant GR3/4242
- 1989 - 1996 Oxford University, UK. Advanced Research Fellow NERC grant GT5/F/89/GS6
- 1996 - 2006 Oxford University, UK. NERC Senior Research Fellow grant GT5/96/13/E & NER/K/S/200000951
- Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford since 1996.
- From 1st October 2006 Departmental Lecturer, Dept. Earth Sciences, Oxford University.
- From 1st October 2008 Professor of Earth Sciences, Dept. Earth Sciences, Oxford University.
Fields of Scholarship
- Moine Thrust zone, NW Scotland
- Core complexes, Aegean (Naxos, Ios), North Himalayan domes, Nanga Parbat etc.
- Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Pamir tectonics
- Mogok Metamorphic belt, Jade belt, Myanmar
- Continental strike-slip faults (Karakoram, Xianshui-he [[Tibet], Red River [[Vietnam, Yunnan], Dead Sea [[Jordan, Syria], Sagaing [[Myanmar] faults)
- Himalayan Tectonics, Himalayan Structure and Metamorphism (Zanskar, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan)
- Ophiolite formation and obduction processes (Oman-UAE, Burma, Andaman Islands, Lizard [[Cornwall, UK])
- Tin-bearing granites (Malaysia, Thailand, Cornwall, Lundy Island)
- Tibet Plateau tectonics
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Murchison Medal of the Geological Societyof London
- 2014 Foreign Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences
