Jörn Thiede#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1577 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Jörn Thiede passed away July 15, 2021.
Positions Held
- 2008 Professor of Geology and climate, University of Copenhagen
- 1997 - 2007 Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
- 1987 - 1994 Founding Director of GEOMAR, Kiel
- 1987 - 1997 Professor of Palaeoceanography, University of Kiel
- 1982 - 1987 Professor of Palaeontology and historical geology, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel
- 1977 - 1982 Professor of Historical Geology, University of Oslo
Fields of Scholarship
- Sedimentology
- Marine geology
Honours and Awards
- 1999 - 2002 President of the European Polar Board
- 2002 - 2006 President of SCAR (International Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
- 2003 - 2006 Vice-president of the Helmholtz Association
- 1989 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, (toghether with Michael Sarnthein)
- 1994 Murchison Medal the Geological Society (London)
- 1995 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2003 Hans Stille Medal
- 2010 Honorary citizenship of the city of Bremerhaven
- 2011 Willy Brandt Prize
- Grand Prix d'Océanographie of the Fondation Rainier III de Monaco
- Chevalier de l'ordre national du Mérite, France
- Honorary Fellow of the EUG
- Honorary Doctorates of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and St. Petersburg State University
- 2001 Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
- 2004 Member of the ACATECH
- 2007 Member of the National Academy Leopoldina
- 1981 Member of the Americal Association for the Advancement of Science
- Foreign Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
