Sierd Cloetingh#
| Membership Number: | 1408 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uu.nl/staff/SAPLCloetingh |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - 2020 President of Academia Europaea
- 2017 - 2019 President COST Association
- 2015 - present Distinguished Professor Utrecht University
- 2014 - 2015 Vice-President ERC
- 2012 - 2015 Professor of Tectonics, Utrecht University
- 2008 - 2014 Vice-President Academia Europaea
- 2004 - 2017 President International Lithosphere Programme
- 1998 - 2000 President European Geophysical Society
- 1988 - 2011 Professor of Tectonics, VU University Amsterdam
- 1986 - 1988 Associate Professor of Tectonophysics, department of Geophysics, Utrecht
- 1983 - 1986 Senior lecturer Geophysics, department of Geophysics, University of Utrecht
- 1977 - 1982 Junior lecturer Geophysics, department of Geophysics, University of Utrecht
- December 1982 PhD degree geophysics University of Utrecht (Thesis: Evolution of passive margins and initiation of subduction zones; Promotor: Prof. dr. N.J. Vlaar)
- January 1977 MSc degree geophysics with minors in structural geology and numerical mathematics (cum laude; supervisor Prof. dr. N.J. Vlaar), University of Utrecht
- March 1972 BSc degree geology with physics and mathematics, University of Groningen (supervisors Professors Ph.Kuenen and L.M.J.U. van Straaten)
Fields of Scholarship
- Solid earth geophysics
- Tectonics
- Intraplate deformation
- Lithospheric dynamics
- Sedimentary basin evolution
- Sea level change
Honours and Awards
- 1993 Member Academia Europaea
- 1993 Distinguished Lecturer American Association of Petroleum Geologists
- 1995 Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
- 1995 Leopold von Buch Medal, German Geological Society
- 1996 Golden Badge Award European Geophysical Society
- 1996 Professor Honoris Causa of Bucharest University, Romania
- 1997 Member Netherlands Society for Sciences
- 1997 Sackler Professor at the Institute of Geohysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv, University, Israel
- 1998 Member Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1999 Doctor Honoris Causa of University of Rennes, France
- 1999 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Geophysical Society
- 2001 Professor and Doctor Honoris Causa, Eötvös University of Budapest, Hungary
- 2002 Fellow American Geophysical Union
- 2002 Doctor Honoris Causa of University of Salzburg, Austria
- 2005 Foreign Member Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Corresponding Member Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Chevalier dans l’Ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur
- 2006 Stephan Mueller Medal, European Geosciences Union
- 2006 Foreign Member Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences Distinguished Professor
- 2006 Honorary Fellow, Geological Society of America
- 2007 Van Waterschot van der Gracht Medal, Royal Netherlands Geological and Mining Society
- 2007 Honorary Professor, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
- 2007 Visiting Professor, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
- 2007 Blaustein Visiting Professor, Stanford University
- 2008 Foreign member Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Visiting Professor, University Pierre et Marie Curie
- 2009 Visiting Professor, ETH Zürich
- 2009 Visiting Professor, IFP Rueil-Malmaison
- 2010 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award
- 2010 Member German National Academy for Technical Sciences acatech
- 2011 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Potsdam
- 2013 Arthur Holmes Medal and honorary membership of the European Geosciences Union
- 2014 Knight in the Royal Order of the Netherlands Lion
- 2014 Utrecht University Distinguished Professor
- 2016 Honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2017 Emil Wiechert Medal, German Geophysical Society
- 2017 Distinguished Visiting Professor Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2018 Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Barcelona
- 2019 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 2019 Honorary Member of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
- 2023 Dimitrie Cantemir Medal, Academy of Sciences of Moldova
- 2024 Foreign Member of the Academy of Lisbon
