Academic staff

Inna Safonova

Dr.Sci.

Lab Chief

Research interests: geochemistry, igneous petrology, tectonics, Pacific-type orogeny, accretionary complexes, Ocean Plate Stratigraphy, mantle plumes, continental growth in Central Asia

e-mail:inna@igm.nsc.ru

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Inna Safonova is the Head of Laboratory of Evolution of Paleo-Oceans and Mantle Magmatism (LEPOM), Leading Research Scientist at the Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, both in Novosibirsk, Russia, and Professor of South-West Jiaotong UNiversitry, Chengdu, China. She received her M.Sc. (1987) from the Novosibirsk State University (Honors), her Ph.D. (2005) and Doctor of Science degree (2021) from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Safonova has been a visiting researcher in the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2004-2015), University of Tokyo (2010-2014) and a Brain Pool Program Researcher in the Korea Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources (2010-2012). Awardee of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (2007-2009, 2014-2015 and 2017) and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China (2017-2018). She has published over 105 peer-reviewed papers in SCI journals, has over 6500 citations (H-factor = 42), a coauthor of several monographs, an associate editor of Gondwana Research, Geoscience Frontiers, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Geosystems and Geoenvironments, Island Arc. Proposer and Leader of IGCP#592 Project "Continental construction in Central Asia" of UNESCO-IUGS (2012-2016), Co-leader of the UNESCO-IUGS project #662 "From Accretion to Collision" (2018–2022). Leader of the RSF project "Subduction Erosion at Convergent Margins of the Paleo-Asian Ocean" (2021–2024) and the GFEN project "Reconstruction of Juvenile Island Arcs" (2025–2026).

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