Virginia Toy
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1979 (age 46–47)
- BSc MSc (Auckland)
- MPhil (ANU)
- PhD (Otago)
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| Born | Virginia Gail Toy 1979 (age 46–47) Auckland, New Zealand |
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| Fields | Structural Geology |
| Institutions | University of Mainz |
| Thesis | Rheology of the Alpine Fault Mylonite Zone: deformation processes at and below the base of the seismogenic zone in a major plate boundary structure (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Norris, Alan Cooper, Richard H. Sibson |
Virginia Gail Toy (born 1979) is a New Zealand geologist who studies fault zones and earthquakes in New Zealand, Japan and Ecuador.[1] She is one of the leaders of the Deep Fault Drilling Project of New Zealand's Alpine Fault,[2] and was a research scientist on the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project.[3][4] She then worked as a research associate professor in geology and associate dean (international) in the Division of Sciences at the University of Otago.[5] Toy currently works as a Professor at the University of Mainz.[6]
Toy grew up on Auckland's North Shore and gained her Bachelor of Science then Master of Science (with honours) in geology from Auckland University. She then gained a Master of Philosophy in Earth Sciences from the Australian National University and a Doctor of Philosophy in geology from the University of Otago in 2008. Her PhD was on the (micro)structural geology of New Zealand's Alpine Fault.[1][7]
