Greg Beroza

Greg Beroza is a seismologist known for his work on earthquake processes. He is known particularly for his studies of the systematics and mechanics of slow, intermediate-depth, and induced earthquakes that have contributed to understanding those phenomena and quantifying the hazards they pose. Beroza was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up there, and in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.S. in Geophysics and then from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in Geophysics in 1989. After a one-year postdoctoral position at MIT, he joined the faculty in the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University in 1990 where he now holds the Wayne Loel Professorship. He has been Deputy Director, then Co-Director, of the Southern California Earthquake Center since 2007. He was named an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, a Fellow of the AGU in 2008, the Beno Gutenberg Medal of the European Geosciences Union in 2014, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.