Alex Webb

Dr. Webb received his PhD in Geology from the University of California, Los Angeles (USA) in 2007. After brief teaching and postdoctoral work there, he moved on to Assistant and then Associate Professor positions at Louisiana State University, theUniversity of Leeds, and the University of Hong Kong, prior to joining the Freie Universität Berlin as Professor for Tectonics and Tectonophysics in 2024. Dr. Webb has also led short courses and field-based teaching expeditions for Nanjing University and Peking University.

His research focuses on tectonics, senso lato—from the early development of Earth and other terrestrial bodies, to million-year time-scale evolution of salt and Himalayan tectonic systems, to mm-scale active deformation characterized via satellite data. He uses geologic mapping integrated with analytical and theoretical approaches to dissect the architecture and evolution of complex tectonic systems.