Dr. Lev V Eppelbaum

Lev V Eppelbaum received an MSc from the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University (ASOIU) in 1982 and a PhD from the Inst. of Geophysics (Azerbaijan), the Geophysical Inst. of Georgia, and the Geological Prospecting University (Moscow) in 1989. From 1982–90, he worked as a geophysicist, Researcher, and Senior Researcher at the Southern Branch of the All-Union Institute of Geophysics in Baku (Azerbaijan). In 1991–1993, Eppelbaum completed postdoctoral studies in the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences at Tel Aviv University; currently, he is a Research Professor at the Department of Geophysics. He authorizes about 460 publications, including twelve books and about200 articles. His scientific interests cover potential (magnetic, gravity, thermal, and self-potential) and quasi-potential geophysical field analysis in complex geological–geophysical environments, integrated geophysical and geological data interpretation, tectonic, geodynamic, and paleomagnetic reconstructions. Eppelbaum’s research interests also include analysis of nonlinear geophysical processes, archaeological and environmental investigations, and searching economic minerals. He was awarded ‘The Knight of the Science and Arts’, and V. Vernadsky medal of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 2017 and 2018, respectively. In 2019, Lev Eppelbaum was awarded the Christian Huygens medal of the European Geosciences Union, and in 2020, he was awarded the Honorary Professor of the ASOIU. In May 2023, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences. An International Scientific Base ‘ResearchGate’ shows the total number of Eppelbaum’s downloaded publications is about 255,000. Lev Eppelbaum is a coauthor of the advanced potential and quasi-potential field analysis system in complex physical-geological environments.  His main achievements are discovering the giant mantle counterclockwise rotating structure centered below the Easternmost Mediterranean (EMM) and revealing in the EMM the most ancient block of the oceanic crust relating to the Kiama paleomagnetic hyperzone.