!!Peter Ziegler - Curriculum vitae
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__Career__
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*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
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__Membership__
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*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
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__Functions__
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*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”
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__Boards of Editors__
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*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
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__Honours__
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*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