Daniel Pastor-Galán

Daniel Pastor-Galán

Científico Titular and Assistant Professor (助教) of Tectonics

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Tohoku University

Biography

The Earth has written its own history in thousands of rock pages, the geological record, which contains evidence of the evolution and interactions of continents, oceans, atmosphere, and biosphere. Despite the rock archive is really dismembered, scattered and hidden in remote places or deeply buried, gathering the pieces together is our only opportunity to reveal the history of our planet, our history. I am a researcher who works in structural geology, plate tectonics, paleogeography and Earth history combining field geology, paleomagnetism, isotopic methods (U-Pb, Ar-Ar, Lu-Hf, Sm-Nd, O and H) and modeling (numerical and analog).

I completed my Ph.D. at Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) in 2012. Since then and until 2016 I was a postdoctoral fellow at Utrecht University (The Netherlands). Later I obtained the prestigious JSPS postdoctoral fellow (Japan Society for Promotion of Science grant, successful rate <10%) to study the tectonic evolution of the Paleotethys and Panthalassa oceans interface during the Pangea amalgamation. Since then I have been Assistan Professor at Tohoku University (2019-2024), Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Granada (2021-2023) and ‘Científico Titular’ (Scientist) at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC).

Interests
  • Tectonics
  • Paleomagnetism
  • Paleogeography
  • Geodynamics
  • Earth History
Education
  • PhD in Geology, 2012

    Universidad de Salamanca

  • Licenciado (BSc + MSc) in Geology, 2007

    Universidad de Salamanca

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
CSIC
Científico Titular
January 2024 – Present IGEO, Madrid

Geodynamics:

  • Global Tectonics
  • Paleomagnetism
  • Continental Crust
 
 
 
 
 
University of Granada
Ramón y Cajal Fellow
May 2021 – January 2024 Granada
 
 
 
 
 
Tohoku University
Assistant Professor (助教) of Tectonics
May 2019 – Present Sendai
 
 
 
 
 
Tohoku University
JSPS Fellow
September 2016 – September 2018 Sendai
 
 
 
 
 
Utrecht University
Postdoctoral Fellow
January 2013 – July 2016 Utrecht
 
 
 
 
 
Salamanca University
PhD Student
September 2008 – September 2012 Salamanca

Recent Publications

SEE ALL PUBLICATIONS
(2024). The Sierra Madre Oriental Orocline: Paleomagnetism of the Nazas Province in NE Mexico. JGR-SE, 129, e2024JB029239.

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(2024). The Beginning of a Wilson Cycle in an Accretionary Orogen. The Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean Opened Assisted by a Devonian Mantle Plume. GRL, 51, e2024GL109028.

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Team

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Rafael Guerra
PhD student
Rafael Guerra
Ariuntsetseg Ganbat
PhD student 2018-2021
Ariuntsetseg Ganbat
Bart Ursem
BSc student 2014
Bart Ursem
Daniël Brouwer
MSc student 2014
Daniël Brouwer
Mark Diederen
BSc student 2015
Mark Diederen
Pol Vilanova Català
BSc student 2021
Samuel Rudbar
MSc student 2022
Samuel Rudbar
Thomas Groenewegen
MSc student 2013
Thomas Groenewegen

Fieldwork

Hokkaido
Hokkaido fieldtrip. Summer of course.
Hokkaido
Talesh
Fieldwork with my Dutch and Iranian friends
Talesh
Munster Basin
Fieldwork in Ireland to study the Greated Cantabrian Orocline
Munster Basin

Contact

Fantastic beast and where to find me

My office hours may vary through the year due to the hybrid work from home/office of the CSIC. Check on my mail if you are planning to visit at least one day in advanced!

  • dpastorgalan@csic.es
  • Doctor Severo Ochoa 7, Madrid, 28040
  • The former morgue of the Medicine Faculty! You can access through the line 6 of the Metro in the Ciudad Universitaria stop.