Background
He was born on October 27, 1945 into an immigrant Armenian ethnic-religious minority in Tehran, Iran, from a nearly survived refugee parent of the Armenian massacre and genocide of 1915 by the government of Turkey.
He was born on October 27, 1945 into an immigrant Armenian ethnic-religious minority in Tehran, Iran, from a nearly survived refugee parent of the Armenian massacre and genocide of 1915 by the government of Turkey.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in geophysics/earth Science, majoring in earthquake seismology and active tectonics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, in June 1981. He is the second ever Iranian and the first Armenian receiving a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Since 1971 he has been engaged in scholarly research and taught at the University of Tehran, University of Tarbiat Modarres, Tehran, and has been teaching at the Ocean County College, United States of America. 2013: The First Iranian and First Armenian Earth Scientist ever honored by the Geological Society of America (General Services Administration) during its 125th Anniversary Annual Conference Special Meeting Dedicated to his over 40-yr of research and contribution to the world Earth Science at Denver, Colorado, United States of America, in October 2013, Sessions 214 & 291, T188: Tethyan Evolution and Seismotectonics of Southwest Asia (General Services Administration Structural Geology and Tectonics Division. General Services Administration Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Division. General Services Administration Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, & Volcanology Division).
2013: The First Iranian and First Armenian Earth Scientist ever honored by the Geological Society of America (General Services Administration) during its 125th Anniversary Annual Conference Special Meeting Dedicated to his over 40-yr of research and contribution to the world Earth Science at Denver, Colorado, United States of America, in October 2013, Sessions 214 & 291, T188: Tethyan Evolution and Seismotectonics of Southwest Asia (General Services Administration Structural Geology and Tectonics Division. General Services Administration Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Division. General Services Administration Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, & Volcanology Division). 2008: A new fossil species of Chondrichthyes (jawed fish) Manberodus fortis general november (genus: Manberodus fortis, Family: Aztecondotidae, Order: Omalodontiformes) with age range of 383.7 to 382.4 Ma (Early Frasnian. Late Devonian) was discovered and named in honor of Doctor Manuel Berberian in recognition of his contribution to the tectonic evolution of the Iranian Plateau.
