Joann Stock, PhD

Joann Stock is a Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology.

She has been at Caltech for 31 years, where she teaches plate tectonics, and field geology and marine geophysics. Her research interests are global plate tectonics; evolution of plate boundaries; stress and deformation in the lithosphere; active faulting and volcanism; and tectonics of Venus. She previously worked at Harvard University and at the US Geological Survey. She received all her degrees from MIT (MSc and BS in Geophysics and PhD in geology).

She received a fellowship from the Fulbright Scholar Program (2004-2005) for work at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004-2005) for a comparison of rift basins in Japan and Mexico. She became a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2011 and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 2009.