Prof. em. Dr. Neil Mancktelow

Neil Mancktelow is a senior scientist in the Geological Institute of the Department of Earth Sciences. In 2006 he was awarded the title of Professor at the ETH Zurich. Neil Mancktelow's field of teaching and research is Structural Geology.

 Neil Mancktelow was born on 17th February, 1954, in Townsville, Australia and obtained his BSc (Hons) at the James Cook University, North Queensland. After completion of his PhD at the University of Adelaide in 1979, he moved to Switzerland to take up a position to establish a Model Deformation Laboratory at the ETH, in the group of Prof. John Ramsay. From 1979 to 1990 he was employed as assistant and senior assistant in the Geological Institute. In 1990 he submitted his habilitation thesis and was appointed "Privatdozent" at the ETH in the field of Structural Geology.

His principal research interests cover the geometry, kinematics and mechanics of rock deformation on all scales, from microstructures to the tectonics of mountain belts. To study the development of such structures, analogue scale-model experiments and now increasingly numerical models are used and directly compared to detailed natural observations. As a result of his own research and the supervision of numerous diploma and doctoral students, Neil Mancktelow has acquired a broad experience in the geology of the Alps. Research projects have also taken him to Namibia, the Cyclades (Greece), the Basin-and-Range province of SW USA, and to central Australia. Neil Mancktelow is President of the Swiss Geological Society and of the Swiss Geological Commission.