Rate My Professor Andrew Merdith

Andrew Merdith is an ARC Externally-Funded Research Fellow and Lecturer in the School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences at The University of Adelaide. He is a computational Earth scientist whose research focuses on the long-term evolution of Earth’s surface conditions and the interactions between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere and mantle. His work employs models of plate tectonics, mantle dynamics, carbon cycling, palaeoclimate and landscape evolution to understand mechanisms behind icehouse-greenhouse transitions, continental weathering and the geological record, with particular emphasis on the Neoproterozoic and Proterozoic periods.

Merdith completed a PhD at the University of Sydney in 2017, following a B.Sc. (Honours) and B.Ed. from the same institution. His career includes postdoctoral positions at the University of Sydney (2017–2018), Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (2018–2021) and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Independent Fellowship at the University of Leeds (2021–2023) before joining Adelaide in 2023 as DECRA Fellow. He has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications on topics including full-plate tectonic reconstructions, solid-Earth carbon cycling and Neoproterozoic climate events.