(Henry) Keith Moffatt - Curriculum Vitae#

Keith Moffatt
Present Position:
  • Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Physics, Cambridge University, and
  • Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

Education and Degrees:
  • 1943-53 George Watson's College, Edinburgh (exchange to Lycée Henri IV, Paris, April-June 1953)
  • 1953-57 Edinburgh University: B.Sc. 1st class (Math.Sc.) 1957
  • 1957-62 Cambridge University:
  • B.A. 1959 (1st class Mathematics, “Wrangler” 1958)
  • Ph.D. 1962; Dissertation "Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence"
  • Sc.D. 1987.

Honorary Doctorates:
  • 1987 Doctor h.c. Inst. Nat. Polytech. Grenoble
  • 1990 Doctor h.c. SUNY (State Univ. of New York at Utica)
  • 2001 Hon.D.Sc. Edinburgh University
  • 2006 Doctor h.c. Technical University, Eindhoven
  • 2007 Hon D.Sc. Glasgow University

Membership of National Academies:
  • 1986 FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society)
  • 1988 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 1991 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member
  • 1994 Academia Europæa, Member
  • 1998 Académie des Sciences, Paris, Associé Etranger
  • 2001 Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Socio Stranieri
  • 2008 National Academy of Sciences (USA), Foreign Associate

Prizes and Medals:
  • 1958 Ferguson Scholarship (Scottish Universities)
  • 1959 Yeats Prize (Cambridge University)
  • 1960 Smith's Prize (Cambridge University)
  • 2001 Panetti-Ferrari International Prize and Gold Medal
  • 2003 Euromech Prize in Fluid Mechanics
  • 2004 Caribbean Award for Fluid Dynamics
  • 2005 Senior Whitehead Prize (London Mathematical Society)
  • 2005 Hughes Medal (Royal Society)
  • 2009 David Crighton Medal (Inst. for Mathematics and its Applications)

Other Honours:
  • 1998 Officier des Palmes Académiques (France)
  • 2000 – 2004 President of IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)
  • 2001-2003 Chaire Internationale de Recherche Blaise Pascal (Paris)
  • 2003 Fellow of American Physical Society
  • 2004-2005 Leverhulme Emeritus Professor
  • 2007 Honorary Fellow of the IMA (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications)

Career:
  • Cambridge University:
    • Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP): Assistant Lecturer 1961-4; Lecturer 1964-76;
    • Professor of Mathematical Physics 1980-2002; Head of DAMTP 1983{1991;
    • Emeritus Professor since 2002.
  • Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences:
    • Director 1996-2001 (Queen's Anniversary Prize 1999)
  • Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France:
    • Professeur d'exercice partiel, 1992-1999.
  • Trinity College, Cambridge:
    • Fellow 1961-76 and since 1980;
    • Lecturer and Director of Studies in Mathematics 1961{76;
    • Tutor 1970-74; Senior Tutor 1975.
  • Bristol University:
    • Professor of Applied Mathematics 1977-1980.
  • International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM):
    • Member of International Papers Committee 1974-76;
    • Congress Committee 1976{2004 (Secretary 1984-92);
    • Member of General Assembly since 1980;
    • Member of IUTAM Bureau 1992-2008;
  • President 2000-2004; Vice-President 2004-2008;
    • IUTAM representative at General Assemblies of ICSU, 2002 (Rio de Janeiro), 2005 (Suzhou, China), 2008 (Maputo, Mozambique).

Journal of Fluid Mechanics:
  • Editor 1966-83.

Visiting appointments:
  • 1965 (March-September): Stanford University, Stanford, California. Visiting Asst. Prof., Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
  • 1965 (September-December): Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore Md. Visiting Asst. Prof., Dept. of Mechanics.
  • 1973 July: Les Houches, France: Lecturer at Summer School of Theoretical Physics.
  • 1973 October: ICTP Trieste, Italy: Lecturer at Autumn Course on Mathematical and Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics.
  • 1975-76 Paris: Professeur Associé at Dept. de Mécanique Théorique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI).
  • 1978 June and 1979 June: Perugia, Italy; Lecturer at Summer School of Mathematics (Italian National Research Council).
  • 1982: Visitor (1 month) under USSR{UK exchange agreement to Institutes in Moscow, St Petersburg (Leningrad), Novosibirsk, Irkutsk and Riga.
  • 1984: Visiting appointment (1 month) at University of Palermo, Italy (CNR).
  • 1986 (September): Royal Society Exchange Visit to China; lectures in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Chengdu.
  • 1986-87: Visiting appointment (CNRS) Inst.Nat.Polytec.Grenoble (6 months).
  • 1987: Green Scholar IGPP La Jolla, and at INLS, UCSD (5 months).
  • 1991: Coordinator for program "Topological Fluid Dynamics" at Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP), *Santa Barbara, California, USA.
  • 1992: Principal Organiser for program "Dynamo Theory" at Isaac Newton Inst. for Math. Sciences, Cambridge.
  • 1993 (January-March) Visiting appointment at RIMS, Kyoto, Japan.
  • 2000 May: KITP Santa Barbara, Program on Astrophysical Turbulence.
  • 2008 May: KITP Santa Barbara, Program on Dynamo Theory.

National and International Committees, etc:
  • 1976-89 Royal Society representative on British National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics;
  • 1989- Member of UK Panel for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
  • 1988-91 and 2006-2009 Royal Society Sectional Committee 1 (Chairman 1990/91).
  • 1988-89 Chairman of International Scientific Committee for IUTAM Symposium "Topological Fluid Mechanics", Cambridge, Aug. 1989.
  • 1991-99 Scientific Council of Pôle Universitaire et Scientifique, Grenoble.
  • 1998-2001 Conseil Administratif, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris.
  • 2000-2001 Co-Chairman of International Scientific Committee for IUTAM Symposium "Tubes, Sheets and Singularities in Fluid Mechanics", Zakopane, Poland, September 2001.
  • 2003 - Trustee and Member of Council, AIMS (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences), Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • 2001-2008 Member of Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS, Singapore.
  • 2008 - Science Foundation Ireland, member of IC&ET Panel (Information, Communication and Emergent Technologies).
  • 2009 Chairman and Director, ICSU{sponsored Spring School "Fluid Dynamics and Geophysics of Environmental Hazards", 19 April-2 May, IMS, Singapore.
  • 2009- Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Member of Conseil d'Enseignement et de Recherche.

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