Suzanne Y. O'Reilly

Suzanne Yvette O'Reilly (born 3 February 1946) is an Australian professor of geology noted for her pioneering contributions to mapping the deep Earth with an interdisciplinary approach. She has over 350 peer-reviewed publications with over 40,000 citations (November 2022), and has supervised more than 40 PhD students to graduation. She went to high school in Goulburn, and was a Professor Harry Messel International Science School Scholar at the inaugural event for students held at the University of Sydney in 1962. She later attended the University of Sydney and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (first-class honours) in geology and general earth science. In 1971, O'Reilly earned her doctorate, also from the University of Sydney, for her thesis on basaltic rocks of the Southern Highlands (New South Wales).

Current positions O'Reilly is currently a Distinguished Professor in geology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She is concurrently professor of earth sciences at Nanjing University and a guest professor at China University of Geosciences (in Wuhan). In 2013, she was Copernicus Visiting Professor at the University of Ferrara. Lyon University awarded her a Docteur Honoris Causa.

Selected awards and honours 1997: Invested as Concurrent Professor, Nanjing University 1989: Elected fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America 2000: Editors' citation award for excellence in reviewing for Journal of Geophysical Research (presented at the May Meeting of the American Geophysical Union) 2001: Awarded Centenary Medal for "service to Australian society and science in earth sciences" 2001–2003: ARC Expert Advisory Committee member for Physics, Chemistry, Geosciences 2002: Member of DEST Expert Advisory Committee for National Research Priorities 2002: Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science 2002: Elected fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 2002: Member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Earth Sciences from 2002 2003: Awarded Visiting Professorship, CNRS France 2007: Elected fellow of the Geological Society of Australia 2008: Awarded W.B. Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales Editorial board member for Chemical Geology and Lithos, China-Russia Geotraverse Project Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN) 2016: Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

Personal O'Reilly lives in Sydney, Australia.