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Eduardo Garzanti is author of ca 350 articles published in international peer-review journals with wide circulation and high impact factor. Bibliometric parameters (Google Scholar) are: ca 25000 citations, H-index 88, I10 272.
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He has achieved a long experience on the geology of the Himalayas, obtained since 1981 during several scientific expeditions carried out within projects MURST and CNR to Pakistan, India, Nepal, South Tibet and the Bengal Sea. His research has focused on various aspects of Himalayan geology, including the Paleozoic history, the opening of Neotethys, the sedimentary successions of the Tethys Himalayan passive margin and of the Transhimalayan active margin, and the paleotectonic evolution during and after Paleocene/Eocene collision of India and Asia.
In recent years he has carried out, in close collaboration with researchers of various institutions worldwide, the petrographic, mineralogical, geochemical and geochronological study of bedload and suspended-load sediments carried today by major Asian (Indus, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Yang Tze, Pearl River, Yellow River), African (Nile, Congo, Orange, Zambezi, Limpopo, Okavango), Southamerican (ParanĂ , Orinoco) and Alpine river systems, and of Cenozoic terrigenous successions accumulated in foreland basins associated with different orogenic systems associated with continental subduction, including the Alps-Apennines, the Caucasus, the Zagros, and the Himalayas. Most recent work in collaboration with several Chinese Universities (Nanjing, Lanzhou, Tongji at Shanghai, CUGB Beijing) is focusing on the Himalayan suture zone and on the Tibetan Plateau.
Full Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca since 2001, Eduardo Garzanti has served several times as vice-Director of the Department of Earth and Environmental Science from 2002 to 2017. He has served as GEV for Sedimentary Geology and Structural Geology in the Italian evaluation system for the Quality of Research (VQR) for the years 2004-2010 and as GEV for Sedimentary Geology for the years 2011-2014. He has been Associate Editor for prestigious International journals including Geology, Terra Nova, and Basin Research.
Eduardo Garzanti was elected 2018 Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of America, an award received at the GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis in 2019.
In 2021 he was awarded the Leopold-von-Buch-Badge by the Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft – Geologische Vereinigung (DGGV, German Geological Society) received at the GeoKarlsruhe 2021 Meeting.
He has been a Member of Academia Europea since 2012 and a Corresponding Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei since 2022.