Rate My Professor Ian Fitzsimons

Fitzsimons served as Head of the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences from 2018, Acting Director of the Western Australian School of Mines, and Head of Applied Geology. His research focuses on metamorphic petrology, tectonics, Antarctica, Gondwana assembly, ultra-high temperature metamorphism, granulites, zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes, detrital zircon provenance, metamorphic P-T-t paths, and charnockites. He has produced 124 research items with 9,193 citations and 80,187 reads on ResearchGate. Highly cited publications include 'Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: a synthesis' (Precambrian Research, 2008), 'Proterozoic basement provinces of southern and southwestern Australia, and their correlation with Antarctica' (Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2003), 'Grenville-age basement provinces in East Antarctica: evidence for three separate collisional orogens' (Geology, 2000), 'A review of tectonic events in the East Antarctic Shield and their implications for Gondwana and earlier supercontinents' (Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2000), 'How does the continental crust get really hot?' (Elements, 2011), and 'The influence of retrograde cation exchange on granulite P–T estimates and a convergence technique for the recovery of peak metamorphic conditions' (Journal of Petrology, 1994). He received the 2014 Curtin Student Guild Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Excellence Award and the Max Hey Medal in 2000. Fitzsimons chairs the Heads of Geoscience Schools Forum and has delivered public lectures including the 6th Day Lecture in 2020.