Peter Ziegler - Curriculum vitae#

• 1948-1955 University of Zürich, Geology study. Ph.D. University of Zürich, May 1955. (Promotor: Prof. R. Trümpy)
• 1955 ISRAMCO, fieldwork Dead Sea area, wellsite geologist.
• 1956 Societé des Pétroles de Madagascar, fieldwork Morandava basin, Madagascar.
• 1957 Compagnie d'Exploration Pétrolière, fieldwork in southern Algeria.
• 1958-1970 Shell Canada Ltd. Calgary, Canada.
• 1958-1963 fieldwork Canadian Cordillera, fieldparty supervisor.
• 1964-1966 Technical advisor foothills and offshore Exploration Division.
• 1967-1970 Subsurface Geologist and later Exploration Manager Alberta Plains.
• 1970-1988 Shell Internationale Petroleum Mij. B.V. Den Haag, The Netherlands.
• 1970-1977 Region Geologist Northern Europe, acting Exploration Manager A/S Norske Shell and Denmark joint venture.
• 1978-1982 Exploration Consultant with special responsability for Europe, South America, seismic stratigraphy and exploration in fold belts.
• 1982-1984 Deputy Head New Ventures and Exploration Advice Department (world wide responsability).
• 1984-1988 Senior Exploration Consultant, team leader Global Geology, giving on a routine basis Shell-internal training lectures on: seismic stratigraphy, plate tectonics and basin evolution, intra-plate tectonics, structural styles of fold belts.
• 1988 December 1st, retirement from Shell. Since then independent exploration consultant (Petroleum Exploration Consultancy Services)
• 1990-2000: lecturer at University of Basel and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 1999-2003: Co-ordinator EUCOR-URGENT Project

• Royal Geological and Mining Society of The Netherlands
• Société Géologique de France
• Geological Society, London
• Schweizerische Geologische Gesellschaft
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• European Union of Geosciences
• European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers

• 1984-1988 member EUG council
• 1984-1988 JOIDES/ODP pollution controle panel
• 1985-1990 chairman Inter-Union commission on the Lithosphere, Working Group 3, Intra-plate Phenomena
• 1989-2000 President Schweizerisches Landeskomittee International Lithosphere Program
• 1991-1994 Member of Bureau International Lithosphere Program, technical advisor
• 1992- member EUROPROBE task groupes GEORIFT and TIMPEBAR
• 1993-1999 Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences: member of Erkenningscommissie Onderzoekscholen, sub-commissie Biologische Oceanografische en Aardwetenschappen
• 1994-2000 Co-coordinator IGCP Project No. 369: Comparative Evolution of PeriTethyan Rift Basins
• 1997-1999 Advisor DEKORP North German Geotransect
• 1997 Chairman International Monitoring Group of Netherlands Environmental Earth System Dynamics Initiative
• 1997 Member Scientific Council EUROBASIN School, Academia Europaea
• 1997-1999 Member Selection Committee “Bonus Incentive Scheme for Research Schools”, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
• 1998-2003 Coordinator EUCOR-URGENT Project “Upper Rhine Graben, Evolution and Neotectonics”

• Marine and Petroleum Geology, since 1985
• Tectonophysics, since 1986
• Journal of the Geological Society, London, 1988-1997
• Terra Nova, since 1988-1998
• Basin Research, 1992-1994
• Geological Quarterly, Warszawa, since 1999

• 1983 Member Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1984 Honorary Member of The Geological Society, London
• 1986 Fourmarier Medal, Geological Society Belgium
• 1986 American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Distinguished Lecturer
• 1987 Van Waterschoot van der Gracht Medal, Royal Geological and Mining Society of The Netherlands
• 1988 William Smith Medal, The Geological Society, London
• 1989 Entry in International "Who is Who"
• 1990 Thomas Neville George Medal, Geological Society of Glasgow
• 1990 Robert H. Dott sr. Memorial Award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (best Special Publication award)
• 1990 Member Academia Europaeana
• 1992 Honoray Lecturer, University of Basel (geodynamics, basin evolution)
• 1993 Leopold von Buch Medal, Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft
• 1994 Honorary Member of the Polish Geological Society
• 1995 Special Commendation Award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• 1995 Honorary Member European Union of Geoscientists
• 1995 Distinguished Lecturer Award Netherlands Research School of Sedimentary Geology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
• 1995 Member New York Academy of Sciences
• 1995 Pjotr Leonidovici Kaptsa Medal, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
• 1996 Entry in "Who's Who in the World"
• 1996 Member Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Crakow
• 1996 Titular Professor for Global Geology, University of Basel
• 1997 Honorary Member Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
• 1997 Doctor Honoris Causa, Moscow State University
• 1997 Entry “2000 Outstading Pleople”
• 1997 Life membreship Bureau International Lithosphere Program
• 1998 Stephan Müller Medal, European Geophysical Society
• 1999 Tectonophysics 300, Tectonics of Sedimentary Basin Formation: Model and Constraints.”The Ziegler Volume”
• 2000 Foreign Member Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsawa
• 2000 Dr. Honoris Causa, Technical University of Delft