Sierd Cloetingh Explained

Birth Date:20 August 1950
Birth Place:Groningen, Netherlands
Fields:Geophysics, Tectonics
Workplaces:Utrecht University

Sierd A.P.L. Cloetingh (born 1950) is Professor of Earth Sciences[1] at Utrecht University, and since 2014 President of the Academia Europaea.[2]

Education[3]

Publications[4]

He published more than 300 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has been promoter of more than 70 PhD students of 18 different nationalities. He served the Earth Science community in various functions, including Presidency of the European Geophysical Society. He is currently the President of the International Lithosphere Programme, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal “Global and Planetary Change” and Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the ESF Large Scale Collaborative Research Programme (EUROCORES) TOPO-EUROPE.

Honours

Cloetingh has received honorary doctorates from five European universities and numerous honours and awards, including the Stephan Mueller Medal, Arthur Holmes Medal and honorary membership of the European Geosciences Union, Fellow and Honorary Fellow of the American Geophysical Union[5] and the Geological Society of America, the Leopold von Buch Medal of the German Geological Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award.

Cloetingh was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.[6] He became corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2005 and of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2008.[7] [8] Cloeting is also Foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,[9] the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters,[10] and the German Academy for Technical Sciences, Acatech. He was distinguished in 2006 as Chevalier de Légion d'honneur and in 2014 as Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion[11] for his contributions to science and European scientific cooperation in research and education.

He was elected member of Academia Europaea in 1993[12] and served Academia Europaea as Chair of the Earth and Marine and Earth and Cosmic Sciences Sections and as vice-president. In 2014 he was elected as President of Academia Europaea. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the ERC since 2009.[13] In 2017, he was appointed President of the COST Association.[14] In December 2018, he became chair of the Board of SAPEA, part of the European Commission's Scientific Advice Mechanism.[15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sierd. Cloetingh. Utrecht University. Profile. 2021-01-20. www.uu.nl.
  2. Web site: The Board of Trustees of the Academia Europaea. 25 September 2014.
  3. Web site: CV.
  4. Web site: Sierd. Cloetingh. Utrecht University. Research output.
  5. Web site: Sierd Cloetingh . https://web.archive.org/web/20200524151626/https://honors.agu.org/honorsfellow/1533-cloetingh/ . American Geophysical Union . 24 May 2020.
  6. Web site: Sierd Cloetingh . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054737/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/3985 . . 4 March 2016.
  7. Web site: Prof. Dr. Sierd A.P.L. Cloetingh . https://web.archive.org/web/20200524150354/https://www.haw.uni-heidelberg.de/akademie/member.en.html?id=261 . Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities . 24 May 2020.
  8. Web site: Prof. Dr. Sierd A. P. L. Cloetingh . https://web.archive.org/web/20200524150937/https://badw.de/gelehrtengemeinschaft/mitglieder.html?tx_badwdb_badwperson%5Bper_id%5D=506&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5BpartialType%5D=BADWPersonDetailsPartial&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5BmemberType%5D=&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5Baction%5D=show&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5Bcontroller%5D=BADWPerson . German . Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities . 24 May 2020.
  9. Web site: Group 2: Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics . https://web.archive.org/web/20190223005006/http://english.dnva.no/c40134/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40149 . Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters . 23 February 2019.
  10. Web site: Professor Sierd Cloetingh . https://web.archive.org/web/20200524150135/http://www.royalacademy.dk/en/Members/Cloetingh-Sierd . Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters . 24 May 2020.
  11. Web site: Koninklijke onderscheidingen 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200524151759/https://www.uu.nl/organisatie/koninklijke-onderscheidingen-2014 . Dutch . Utrecht University . 24 May 2020.
  12. Web site: Sierd Cloetingh . https://web.archive.org/web/20190328115925/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Cloetingh_Sierd . Academia Europaea . 28 March 2019.
  13. Web site: Short CV. 25 September 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141018152042/http://www.ae-info.org/attach/User/Cloetingh_Sierd/CV/CV-Cloetingh_short.pdf. 18 October 2014.
  14. Web site: Press release COST Association.
  15. Web site: SAPEA Board. SAPEA. 9 January 2019.

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