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Taras Gerya

Taras Gerya

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Earth Science
Switzerland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
93
Citations
27515
World Ranking
221
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Taras Gerya is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Geophysics. Their research spans several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Atmospheric Science, and Geology.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass:

  • earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Scientific Reports
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent co-authors of Taras Gerya include:

  • Attila Balázs (12 publications)
  • Robert J. Stern (11 publications)
  • В. С. Захаров (11 publications)
  • Mingqi Liu (11 publications)
  • A. L. Perchuk (10 publications)

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Taras Gerya are:

  • "Corona structures driven by plume-lithosphere interactions and evidence for ongoing plume activity on Venus" (2020), published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Transient stripping of subducting slabs controls periodic forearc uplift" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Dynamic slab segmentation due to brittle-ductile damage in the outer rise" (2021), published in Nature
  • "Lateral propagation-induced subduction initiation at passive continental margins controlled by preexisting lithospheric weakness" (2020), published in Science Advances
  • "Building cratonic keels in Precambrian plate tectonics" (2020), published in Nature

Taras Gerya has been recognized with membership in Academia Europaea since 2018 and was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks in a subduction channel: A numerical simulation

    Taras V. Gerya;Taras V. Gerya;Bernhard Stöckhert;Alexey L. Perchuk

  • Characteristics-based marker-in-cell method with conservative finite-differences schemes for modeling geological flows with strongly variable transport properties

    Taras V. Gerya;Taras V. Gerya;David A. Yuen

  • Rayleigh^Taylor instabilities from hydration and melting propel 'cold plumes' at subduction zones

    Taras V Gerya;Taras V Gerya;David A Yuen

  • Introduction to Numerical Geodynamic Modelling

    Taras Gerya

  • Subduction styles in the Precambrian: Insight from numerical experiments

    E. Sizova;T. Gerya;T. Gerya;M. Brown;L.L. Perchuk;L.L. Perchuk

  • Subduction initiation in nature and models: A review

    Robert J. Stern;Taras Gerya

  • Robust characteristics method for modelling multiphase visco-elasto-plastic thermo-mechanical problems

    Taras V. Gerya;David A. Yuen

  • Non-Newtonian rheology of crystal-bearing magmas and implications for magma ascent dynamics

    Luca Caricchi;Luigi Burlini;Peter Ulmer;Taras Gerya

  • A benchmark comparison of spontaneous subduction models – towards a free surface

    H. Schmeling;Andrey Babeyko;A. Enns;C. Faccenna

  • A comparison of numerical surface topography calculations in geodynamic modelling: an evaluation of the ‘sticky air’ method

    F. Crameri;H. Schmeling;G.J. Golabek;G.J. Golabek;T. Duretz

  • Plate tectonics on the Earth triggered by plume-induced subduction initiation

    T. V. Gerya;R. J. Stern;Marzieh Baes;S. V. Sobolev

  • The role of viscous heating in Barrovian metamorphism of collisional orogens: thermomechanical models and application to the Lepontine Dome in the Central Alps

    Jean-Pierre Burg;Taras Gerya;Taras Gerya

  • Geodynamic regimes of subduction under an active margin: effects of rheological weakening by fluids and melts

    T. V. Gerya;T. V. Gerya;F. I. Meilick

  • Generation of felsic crust in the Archean: A geodynamic modeling perspective

    E. Sizova;T. Gerya;T. Gerya;K. Stüwe;M. Brown

  • Contrasting styles of Phanerozoic and Precambrian continental collision

    E. Sizova;T. Gerya;T. Gerya;M. Brown

  • Precambrian geodynamics: Concepts and models

    Taras Gerya

  • Deep slab hydration induced by bending-related variations in tectonic pressure

    Manuele Faccenda;Taras V. Gerya;Luigi Burlini

  • Numerical modelling of spontaneous slab breakoff and subsequent topographic response

    Thibault Duretz;Taras V. Gerya;Dave A. May

  • Fault-induced seismic anisotropy by hydration in subducting oceanic plates

    Manuele Faccenda;Luigi Burlini;Taras V. Gerya;David Mainprice

  • Thermomechanical modelling of slab detachment

    Taras V. Gerya;Taras V. Gerya;David A. Yuen;Walter V. Maresch

  • Transient hot channels: Perpetrating and regurgitating ultrahigh-pressure, high-temperature crust–mantle associations in collision belts

    T.V. Gerya;L.L. Perchuk;J.-P. Burg

Frequent Co-Authors

Boris J. P. Kaus
Boris J. P. Kaus Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Dave A. May
Dave A. May University of Oxford
David A. Yuen
David A. Yuen Columbia University
Sierd Cloetingh
Sierd Cloetingh Utrecht University
Robert J. Stern
Robert J. Stern The University of Texas at Dallas
Sylvie Leroy
Sylvie Leroy Sorbonne University
Walter V. Maresch
Walter V. Maresch Ruhr University Bochum

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