Geodynamics

Sia Ghelichkhan

Sia Ghelichkhan is a geodynamicist at the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, where he joined as faculty in 2024. Originally from Iran, he studied theoretical physics before moving to Munich, Germany, where he completed both a Masters in Geophysics and a PhD in Geodynamics at LMU Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He moved to Canberra, Australia in 2019. His research focuses on applying numerical and inverse methods to geodynamics, with a particular emphasis on adjoint-based approaches for reconstructing mantle flow in space and time. He is a lead developer of G-ADOPT (g-adopt.org), a computational platform for inverse geodynamics. As an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, he is currently working on G-PREM, a three-dimensional dynamic reference Earth model for the Cenozoic, aimed at understanding the mantle's influence on past sea level. Since 2024, he is also a Fellow of the Institute for Water Futures at ANU, where he is developing inverse models of groundwater systems across Australia and globally. More at sia-g.com.

Interview ECS GD Awardee 2026 – Sia Ghelichkhan

Sia Ghelichkhan and edited by Lorenzo Mantiloni March 25, 2026

Dr. Siavash Ghelichkhan is the 2026 EGU ECS Awardee for the Geodynamics divison. Congratulations, Sia! The image in the upper-right corner is the present-day thermal structure predicted from a global mantle convection simulation in G-ADOPT (see https://gadopt.org/).

The Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards highlight exceptional scientific contributions made by an Early Career Scientist in the fields of Earth Sciences associated with each division. This year, the prestigious recognition for the Geodynamics Division has been awarded to Dr. Sia Gelichkhan, from the Australian National University. Today we have the pleasure of interviewing him on hi ...[Read More]