Matt Rioux

Biography

Matt Rioux completed a B.A. in Earth Science at Boston University in 2000 and a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences at UC Santa Barbara in 2006. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2006–2011, before becoming an Assistant/Associate Researcher in the Earth Research Institute at UC Santa Barbara from 2011–2018. He started his current position as a Teaching Professor in the Department of Earth Science at UC Santa Barbara in 2018.

Research 

Matt Rioux’s research uses field work, high-precision U-Pb geochronology, major-, trace-, and radiogenic isotope geochemistry, and petrology to study magmatic and tectonic processes. His recent projects have focused on the formation and evolution of the oceanic crust and the formation of ophiolites, but he is broadly interested in mafic to felsic igneous systems.