Researcher - Curator

310-825-3202
aerubin@ucla.edu
4877 Geology

Alan Rubin received his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of New Mexico. He is a retired and recalled adjunct professor and curator of the UCLA Meteorite Collection; he has been at UCLA since 1983. He has conducted meteorite research on a wide variety of samples, concentrating on the nature and origin of chondrules, shock effects in chondrites and the processes that heated and altered meteorite parent bodies.