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  • levan.tielidze@iliauni.edu.ge

Levan Tielidze

Direction:Glaciology
Position:Associate Professor

Levan Tielidze is a PhD in Geography, specializing in Glaciology and Geomorphology.

From 2006 to 2018, he worked as a Research Scientist at the Institute of Geography, Tbilisi State University of Georgia, and from 2018 to 2020 as a Senior Research Scientist. Between 2019 and 2023, he conducted research at the Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Since 2023, he has been a Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia.

He undertook research fellowships at the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA (2014-2015), the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada (2015-2017), and the University of Zurich, Switzerland (2018).

He serves as the Official Correspondent for Georgia to the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), the National Correspondent for Georgia to the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS), and is a Member of the Council of the International Glaciological Society (IGS). He is also the Caucasus Regional Representative of the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) initiative and a co-founder and member of the International Society of Georgian Scientists.

In recognition of his scientific achievements, in 2014 he was awarded the Tbilisi State University Medal and in 2016 the Tsinandali Prize in Natural Sciences. In 2017, he was named Best Young Scientist in Georgian Studies by the National Science Foundation of Georgia. In the same year, he was awarded a prestigious five-year research fellowship by the Georgian National Academy of Sciences. In 2023, he received the Pascal Prize from Ilia State University of Georgia. In the same year, he received the New Zealand Geographical Society Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis. In 2025, he was awarded the National Science Foundation of Georgia Prize for Outstanding Scientific Achievements in the Natural Sciences, one of the country’s highest honours for excellence in scientific research.

Levan Tielidze is the first Georgian scientist in the history of independent Georgia to conduct scientific research in Antarctica. He is also the only Georgian to have participated in two consecutive Antarctic research expeditions: the 2023-2024 expedition to Wilkes Land and Queen Mary Land, and the 2024-2025 expedition to Dronning Maud Land.

Scientific interests / research interests
  • Glaciological and geomorphological studies of mountain glaciers and the Antarctic Ice Sheet;
  • Reconstruction of past glaciations using cosmogenic nuclide dating;
  • Glacier mapping, monitoring, and spatial analysis using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing techniques.
  • Featured publications
  1. Tielidze, L. , Jomelli, V., and Nosenko, G. A. (2022). Analysis of Regional Changes in Geodetic Mass Balance for All Caucasus Glaciers over the Past Two Decades. Atmosphere, 13, 256. doi.org/10.3390/atmos13020256.
  2. Tielidze, L. G., Nosenko, G. A., Khromova, T. E., and Paul, F. (2022). Strong acceleration of glacier area loss in the Greater Caucasus between 2000 and 2020, The Cryosphere, org/10.5194/tc-16-489-2022.
  3. Tielidze, L., Eaves, S., Norton, K., and Mackintosh, A. (2021). Glacial geomorphology of the Ahuriri River valley, central Southern Alps, New Zealand. Journal of Maps. org/10.1080/17445647.2021.1876777.
  4. Khedim, N., Cécillon, L., Poulenard, J., Barré, P., Baudin, F., Marta, S., Rabatel, A., Dentant, C., Cauvy‐Fraunié, S., Anthelme, F., Gielly, L., Ambrosini, R., Franzetti, A., Azzoni, R. S., Caccianiga, M. S., Compostella, C., Clague, J., Tielidze, L., Messager, E., Choler, P., and Ficetola, G. F. (2021). Topsoil organic matter build‐up in glacier forelands around the world. Global Change Biology. org/10.1111/gcb.15496.
  5. Holobâcă, I., Tielidze, L., Ivan, K., Elizbarashvili, M., Alexe, M., Germain, D., Petrescu, S., Pop, O., and Gaprindashvili, G. (2021). Multi-sensor remote sensing to map glacier debris cover in the Greater Caucasus, Georgia. Journal of Glaciology. org/10.1017/jog.2021.47.
  6. Marta, S.; Azzoni, R. S., Fugazza, D., Tielidze, L., Chand, P., Sieron, K., Almond, P., Ambrosini, R., Anthelme, F., Alviz Gazitúa, P., Bhambri, R., Bonin, A., Caccianiga, M., Cauvy-Fraunié, S., Ceballos Lievano, J. L., Clague, J., Cochachín Rapre, J. A., Dangles, O., Deline, P., Eger, A., Cruz Encarnación, R., Erokhin, S., Franzetti, A., Gielly, L., Gili, F., Gobbi, M., Guerrieri, A., Hågvar, S., Khedim, N., Kinyanjui, R., Messager, E., Morales-Martínez, M. A., Peyre, G., Pittino, F., Poulenard, J., Seppi, R., Chand Sharma, M., Urseitova, N., Weissling, B., Yang, Y., Zaginaev, V., Zimmer, A., Diolaiuti, G. A., Rabatel, A., and Ficetola, G. F. (2021). The Retreat of Mountain Glaciers since the Little Ice Age: A Spatially Explicit Database. Data. 6, 107. org/10.3390/data6100107.
  7. Tielidze, L., Bolch, T., Wheate, R., Kutuzov, S., Lavrentiev, I., and Zemp, M. (2020). Supra-glacial debris cover changes in the Greater Caucasus from 1986 to 2014. The Cryosphere. org/10.5194/tc-14-585-2020, 2020.
  8. Tielidze, L., Svanadze, D., Gadrani, L., Asanidze, L., Wheate, R., and Hamilton, G. (2020). A 54-year record of changes at Chalaati and Zopkhito glaciers, Georgian Caucasus, observed from archival maps, satellite imagery, drone survey and ground-based investigation. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin. org/10.15201/hungeobull.69.2.6.
  9. Tielidze, L., Solomina, O., Jomelli, V., Dolgova, E., Bushueva, I., Mikhalenko, V., Braucher, R., and ASTER Team (2020). Change of Chalaati Glacier (Georgian Caucasus) since the Little Ice Age based on dendrochronological and Beryllium-10 data. Ice and Snow. org/10.31857/S2076673420030052.
  10. Tielidze, L., Kumladze R., Wheate, R., and Gamkrelidze, M. (2019). The Devdoraki Glacier Catastrophes, Georgian Caucasus. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin. org/10.15201/hungeobull.68.1.2.
  11. Zemp, M., Sajood, A. , Pitte, P., van Ommen, T., Fischer, A., Soruco, A., Thomson, L., Schaefer, M., Li, Z., Ceballos Lievano, J. L., Cáceres Correa, B. E., Vincent, C., Tielidze, L., Braun, L.N., Ahlstrøm, A. P., Hannesdóttir, H., Dobhal, D. P., Karimi, N., Baroni, C., Fujita, K., Severskiy, I., Prinz, R., Usubaliev, R., Delgado-Granados, H., Demberel, O., Joshi, S. P., Anderson, B., Ove Hagen, J., Dávila Roller, L. R., Gadek, B., Popovnin, V. V., Cobos, G., Holmlund, P., Huss, M., Kayumov, A., Lea, J. M., Pelto, M., and Yakovlev, A. (2019). Glacier monitoring tracks progress in limiting climate change. Nature 576: 39. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03700-3.
  12. Tielidze, L., and Wheate, R. (2018). The Greater Caucasus Glacier Inventory (Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan). The Cryosphere. org/10.5194/tc-12-81-2018, 2018.
  13. Tielidze, L. (2016). Glacier change over the last century, Caucasus Mountains, Georgia, observed from old topographical maps, Landsat and ASTER satellite imagery. The Cryosphere. doi:10.5194 / tc-10-713-2016, 2016.
  14. Kutuzov, S., Mikhalenko, V., Grachev, A., Ginot, P., Lavrentiev, I. Kozachek, A., Krupskaya, V., Ekaykin, A., Tielidze, L., and Toropov, P. (2016). First geophysical and shallow ice core investigation of the Kazbek plateau glacier, Caucasus Mountains. Environ Earth Sciences. doi:10.5194 / tc-10-713-2016, 2016.
  15. Popovnin, V., Rezepkin, A., and Tielidze, L. (2015). Superficial moraine expansion on the Djankuat Glacier snout over the direct glaciological monitoring period. Earth Cryosphere. XIX, No. 1, p. 89-98.
  16. Gobejishvili, R., Lomidze, N., and Tielidze, L. (2011).Late Pleistocene (Wurm) Glaciations of the Caucasus. Quaternary glaciations-extend and chronology. Developments in Quaternary Science. org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53447-7.00012-X.
  • Books
  1. Geographical Atlas of Georgia. (2018). Hause "Palitra L". Tbilisi, Georgia. ISBN 978-9941-24-984-6. 183 pp. (editor). (in Georgian).
  2. National Atlas of Georgia. (2018). Franz Steiner Verlag. Stuttgart, Germany. ISBN 978-3-515-12057-9. 138 pp. (co-author).
  3. Glaciers of Georgia. (2017). Geography of the Physical Environment. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50571-8. 167 pp. (Author).
  4. Modern and old glaciers of Georgia. (2016). Publ. House "Samshoblo", Tbilisi, Georgia. ISBN 978-9941-0-8531-4. 216 pp. (author) (in Georgian).
  5. Glaciers catalog of Georgia. (2016). Publ. House "Samshoblo", Tbilisi, Georgia. ISBN 978-9941-08532-1. 116 pp. (author) (bilingual - Georgian/English).
  6. Glaciers of Georgia. (2014). publishing house "Color", Tbilisi, Georgia. ISBN 978-9941-0-6809-6. 254 p. (author) (in Georgian).
  7. Monitoring of glaciers on the background of climate change. (2012). publishing house "Universali", ISBN: 978-9941-17-533-6. Tbilisi, Georgia. 176 pp. (co-author) (in Georgian).
  8. National Atlas of Georgia. (2012). publishing house "Cartography", Tbilisi, Georgia. 140 pp. (co-author) (in Georgian).

 

Course Catalog

Lecture course in glaciology. Spring Semester For Bachelor's / Master's level.

Course Catalog

Lecture course in glaciology. Fall Semester 2018-2019. For Master's level.

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