The Chair essentially oversees the TSG committee, making sure that it is running effectively and that plans for the future are sound. As well as coordinating the committee and the AGM, the Chair also reports to the Geological Society of London and attends their Science Committee meetings.

Prof Ake Fagereng (since January 2024) 

Ake Fagereng is a structural geologist at Cardiff University. He did a BSc(Hons) degree at the University of Cape Town and a PhD at University of Otago. His PhD was based on field observations and microstructures in the Otago Schist, as well as some numerical modelling that started a long-term collaboration with GNS Science in Lower Hutt. After his PhD he spent a few years as Lecturer at the University of Cape Town, before coming to the UK (moving closer to his native Norway). He is currently interested in both plate boundaries and plate interiors; specifically the range of seismic styles (from creep, through slow slip events, to giant earthquakes) in subduction zones, how rifts form and are controlled (or not) by pre-existing structures, why there are large earthquakes far from plate boundaries, and the interplay between fluids (water and melt) and deformation. Most of his studies are based on field observations and microstructures, although he has also used numerical models, geochemical methods such as stable isotopes, and rock deformation experiments. 

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