Rate My Professor Boris Gurevich

Professor Boris Gurevich is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Geophysics at Curtin University in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences. He serves as Director of the Centre for Exploration Geophysics and Director of the Curtin Reservoir Geophysics Consortium. Boris obtained his MSc at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1981 and began his career at the Moscow Institute of Geosystems, where his early work included numerical analysis of NMR signals, application of pattern recognition to direct detection of hydrocarbons from seismic reflection data, and poroelasticity. His PhD thesis in 1988 focused on quantification of dispersion and attenuation due to mesoscopic flow in thinly-layered poroelastic systems. In the 1990s, after visiting research appointments at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, Birkbeck College, and Elf Geoscience Research Centre in London, he joined the Geophysical Institute of Israel, combining poroelasticity with multi-focusing imaging. In 2001, he was appointed Professor of Geophysics at Curtin University under a joint appointment with CSIRO. There, his research expanded into rock physics topics such as effective stress laws, stress dependency of rock properties, and solid/fluid layered systems. He was Head of the Department of Exploration Geophysics from 2010 to 2015 and has directed the Curtin Reservoir Geophysics Consortium since 2004. He founded Curtin’s rock physics laboratory.