Robert J. Stern is Professor of Geosciences and has been a UT Dallas faculty member since 1982. Most of his scientific career was spent studying modern and ancient plate tectonic processes and products, especially the active Mariana arc system in the Western Pacific and ancient (800-550 million-year-old) crust exposed in the Arabian-Nubian Shield of Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel. He has made important contributions to the geology of Iran, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico.  Geodynamic contributions include ideas about how new subduction zones form and the evolution of Plate Tectonics. He and his co-authors have published more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers; more information can be found on his Google Scholar profile. He is director of the Global Magmatic and Tectonic Laboratory and Geoscience Studios and is co-director of the Micro-imaging Laboratory and of the Permian Basin Research Lab. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union and has been Editor-in-Chief of International Geology Review since 2013. More information can be found on his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Stern