Hans Thybo#
| Membership Number: | 2263 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2004 |
| Main Country of Residence: | TURKEY |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-39642-8065 |
- 2019 - present Professor of Geophysics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
- 2017 - present Professor of Geophysics, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul technical University
- 2016 - present Professor of Geophysics, Center for Earth evolution and Dynamics, University of Oslo
- 2001 - 2017 Professor of Geophysics, Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen
- 2004 - 2008 Institute Chair, Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen
- 2001 - 2004 Deputy Institute Leader, Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen
- 1986 - 2001 Ass. Professor in Geophysics, Geological Institute, KU (GI).
- 1994 Visiting professor at Stanford University, California
- 1988 Head of Geophysical Laboratory, Geological Institute, KU (GI)
- 1986 Grant from Nordic Council of Ministers (Energy research).
- 1982 - 1985 PhD. study grant, Geological Institute, University of Aarhus
- 1981 Technische Hogeschool Delft, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Potential Fields
- Lithosphere dynamics
- Seismology
- Tectonophysics and Tectonics
- Solid earth geophysics
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Elected member of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2003 - 2009 Elected to the presidium of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2004 - 2008 Swedish Geo-Research Council (NT-C)
- 2004 Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society, London
- 2004 - 2009 External council member, Science Faculty, University of Oslo
- 2004 Elected member of Academia Europaea
- 2006 - 2017 Danish representative to ICSU (International Committee of Scientific Unions)
- 2007 - 2013 Member of the Danish Research Council for Natural Sciences (FNU)
- 2010: Elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2011 - 2017 Vicepresident of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2012 Elected member Danish Academy of Natural Sciences
- 2013 - 2017 Overseas Expert for Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
- 2014 Member of the board of Danish Academy of Natural Sciences
- 2014 Elected Fellow of Geological Society of America
- 2014 - 2016 President, European Geosciences Union; 2015 and 2017 Vicepresident
- 2016 Member Swedish Research Council for Geosciences
- 2015 Member of Portuguese Geoscience Panel (FCT)
- 2018-19 Chair of Panel for Stimulus of Human resources, FCT, Portugal
- 2018 Chair of evaluation panel of research centres, FCT, Portugal
- 2016 President of International Lithosphere program (ILP)
- 2016 Honorary Editor of Tectonophysics
- 2017 Chair, Inge Lehmann Foundation
- 2018 1000 Talents’ Award, China
- 2019-21 Chair, Panel for Earth Sciences and Engineering, FCT Portugal
- 2019 Scientific advisory committee for DDE (Deep Digital Earth) of IUGS
- 2019 Member of Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science for Int. Science Council
