Thomas Rosswall#
| Membership Number: | 187 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - 2009 Executive Director, International Council for Science (ICSU)
- 2000 - 2001 Director, International Foundation for Science
- Since 2000 Professor, water and environmental studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- 1994 - 2000 Rector (President), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- 1992 - 1994 Professor, water and environmental studies, University of Stockholm
- 1987 - 1994 Executive Director, The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: A Study of Global Change (IGBP), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
- 1992 - 1993 Director, International START Secretariat, Washington, D.C.
- 1984 - 1992 Professor at the Department of Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- 1980 - 1984 Assistant Professor in Microbiology and Associate Professor in Soil Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
Fields of Scholarship
- Microbial ecology
- Biogeochemical cycling
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Fellow of Academia Europaea
- 1989 Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1995 Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry
- 1996 Fellow of the Swedish Royal Patriotic Society
- 1999 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in Uppsala
- 2002 Fellow of the The World Academy of Sciences, TWAS
- Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2000 His Majesty the King of Sweden Order of Merit 12th Grade with Serafim Ribbon
- 1981 Second Professor John Roger Porter Memorial Lecture, University of Bombay, India
- 1989 First Industrial Memorial Lecture, Haarlem, the Netherlands
- 1990 Fourth Hendrik De Waard Lecture, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- 2022 Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory’s “Award of Excellence in Ecosystem Science”, Colorado State University
- 2003 Carl Gustaf Bernhard Lecture, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
