Maya tolstoy biography movie

Marine geologist

Maya Tolstoy is a marine geophysicist known for her work on earthquakes in the deep sea. From Fall 2018 through December 2019 she was the Interim Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.

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As of 2022, she is the Maggie Walker Dean in the College of the Environment at the University of Washington.

Education and career

Tolstoy was interested in both science and theater while growing up,^[1] but a fascination with earthquakes led her to a career in geoscience.^[2] Tolstoy received her B.S.

in geophysics from the University of Edinburgh in 1988 and earned a Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1994.^[3] Following her Ph.D., she was first a postdoctoral research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and then at Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory. In 1996 she joined the faculty at Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, and was promoted to professor in 2016.^{[3& Maya Tolstoy - Awards - IMDb SETYP}