Manuel Berberian

Manuel Berberian is an Iranian-Armenian earth scientist. He was born on the 27th of October 1945 into an immigrant Armenian family in Tehran. He specializes in earthquake seismology, active faulting and folding, active tectonics, continental tectonics, historical seismicity, archaeoseismicity, earthquake hazard minimization, geological mapping, and environmental science and engineering.

Biography Berberian was born on October 27, 1945, into an immigrant Armenian family in Tehran. The family had previously fled Armenia during the Armenian genocide. His mother is an Assyrian Christian from Rezaiyeh, Iran.

He attended primary school and high school in Iran, graduating in 1958 and 1964 respectively. He received a B.S. in geology with high honors from the University of Tehran in 1968. Since 1971 he has been engaged in scholarly research, He has taught at the University of Tehran, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran and Ocean County College in New Jersey. He joined the Geological Survey of Tehran in 1971, and established the Tectonics and Seismotectonics Research Department.

2008: A new fossil species of Chondrichthyes (jawed fish) named in honor of Berberian in recognition of his contribution to the tectonic evolution of the Iranian Plateau.