Susan L. Beck is a geophysicist and professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona specializing in seismology and tectonics of the American Cordillera.
She did postdoctoral research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before joining the faculty in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona.
[1] Beck is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the Geological Society of America both for her contributions to seismology and to research in understanding mountain building in the Andes and the North and South American Cordillera.
[2][3][4][5] In 2008, Beck was elected to a three-year term as chair of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology an international consortium of universities for research in seismology.
[6] In 2020, she was awarded the Walter H. Bucher Medal for her contributions to fundamental understandings of the crust and lithosphere.