Nick Kusznir

Nick Kusznir
Alma materDurham University
AwardsBigsby Medal (1987)
Lyell Medal (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsGeophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Liverpool
ThesisTheoretical studies of the geodynamics of accretion boundaries in the plate tectonics (1973)
Doctoral advisorMartin Bott

Nicholas John Kusznir is a British geophysicist. He is Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at the University of Liverpool.

Kusznir completed his BSc in Physics at Durham University in 1972; earning a PhD from the same institution in 1976. He has been awarded both the Bigsby Medal (1987) and Lyell Medal (2019) of the Geological Society of London.

As of April 2025, his h-index, per Google Scholar, is 60.