Ian Garrick-Bethell
Professor of Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2020-present

Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz, 2016-2020
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz, 2010-2016
Visiting International Scholar, Kyung Hee University, South Korea, 2011 - 2021
Postdoc, Brown University, 2009-2010
Ph.D. Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009
M.S. Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
B.A. Physics, Wesleyan University, 2002

Awards/Honors
2015 AGU Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Science
2014 Sloan Fellowship in Physics
2012 Hellman Fellowship
2004 MIT Presidential Fellowship
2002 Phi Beta Kappa

Main research areas: lunar geophysics, planetary magnetism, space weathering, low-cost mission concepts (such as NanoSWARM).

Research interests

Publications

Current graduate students:

Pranvera Hyseni, M.S., 2020 - present
Jacob Abrahams, Ph.D., 2017 - present, co-advisor with Francis Nimmo
Megan Kelley, Ph.D., 2017 - present
Rachell Maxwell, Ph.D., 2016 - present

Undergraduate students: Richard Nelson, James McFadden

Former postdocs:
Cecile Cournede, lunar and meteorite paleomagnetism, 2016-2017

Former graduate students:
Michael Nayak, Ph.D., 2016, now at Maui High Performance Computing Center, AFRL
Doug Hemingway, Ph.D. 2015, now a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley
Viranga Perera, M.S. 2013, now a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University

Former undergraduate students:
Omid Ghassemi, lunar crustal magnetism, 2015-2017
Joseph Schools, lunar paleomagnetism, 2013
Lindsay Chan, lunar paleomagnetism, 2012

Mailing address / contact information:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Office: EMS A137
Office phone: 831-459-1277
Fax: 831-459-3074
e-mail: igarrick@ucsc.edu