Herbert E. Huppert#
Membership Number: | 2977 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2011 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.itg.cam.ac.uk/people/heh |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2012 Professor at the University of New South Wales, School of Mathematics and Statistics
- 2012 Professor at the University of Bristol, Faculty of Science
- 1989 Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge
- 1988-1989 Reader in Geophysical Dynamics
- 1981-1988 University Lecturer
- 1970-1981 Assistant Director of Research in DAMTP, Cambridge
- 1970 Fellow, King's College
- 1968-1969 ICI Research Fellow at Cambridge University
Fields of Scholarship
- Carbon dioxide sequestration
- The flow of granular media
- Constrained lava flows
- Exchange flows
- The fluid mechanics of solidification
- The sinking of pumice
Honours and Awards
- 1964 Sydney University medal and Baker Prize in Mathematics
- 1977 Maurice Hill Research Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1982, 88, 91, 95 Royal Society Anglo-Australasian Research Fellow
- 1987 Elected a Fellow of The Royal Society
- 1995 Evnin Lecturer, Princeton University
- 1996/7 Midwest Mechanics Lecturer
- 1999 Henry Charnock Distinguished Lecturer, Southampton Oceanography Centre
- 1999 Alan Taylor Lecturer, Oxford University
- 1999 Smith Industries Lecturer, Oxford University
- 2002 Elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- 2004 Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2005 US Academy of Science Arthur L. Day Price and Lectureship
- 2005 Pollak Distinguished Lecturer of the Technion, Israel
- 2005 William Hopkins Prize, Cambridge Philosophical Society
- 2006 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2007 Murchison Medal, London Geological Society
- 2011 Bakerian Lecture of the Royal Society
- 2011 Elected a Fellow of the Academia Europaea
- 2013 Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship