Hans Thybo
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Hans Thybo | |
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Education | University of Aarhus (BS, MS, PhD) |
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Fields | Geophysics, geology |
Hans Thybo (born 19 February 1954) is a Danish geophysicist and geologist. He was a Professor of Geophysics at the Geological Institute and the Institute for Geography and Geology at the University of Copenhagen, as well as at the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics.[1] at University of Oslo. He is a Professor at the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences[2] at Istanbul Technical University and at the School of Earth Sciences at China University of Geosciences, Wuhan. Until a fusion in 2007 he was elected Head of Department at the Geological Institute and member of the board of Geocenter Copenhagen. He was Professor at Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management[3] until he was dismissed from his Chair in 2016.[4] The dismissal was later found illegal and violating employment agreements by an arbitration court and Thybo received a modest economic compensation, but the University of Copenhagen did not re-employ Thybo, nor did the University sanction his accusers.[5] The internationally agreed principle of tenure for university professors does not apply to universities in Denmark.[6] Thybo has earlier been associated with Technische Hogeschool Delft and Stanford University.
Thybo is President of International Lithosphere Program (ILP)[7] og was earlier President for European Geosciences Union, where he also held posts as General Secretary and President for the Seismology Division. He has been chair for the Danish national committee for ICSU (International Council for Science). He is currently a member of Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science[8] of ISC (International Science Council). He is member of and was earlier Vicepresident of Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters. He has received the 1000 Talents Award from China and he is fellow of Royal Astronomical Society, London and Geological Society of America. He is elected member of Academia Europaea, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters and Danish Academy of Natural Sciences,[9] and he has been Danish representative to International Council for Science (ICSU).
Hans Thybo has been leader of several geoscientific research programmes and he has been field expedition leader to e.g. the ice sheet in Greenland, east Africa and Siberia. He initiated several pan-European research programmes with east-west collaboration after the end of the cold war. His research includes the discovery of ca. 2 billion year old plate tectonic structures,[10] the fundamental Mid-Lithospheric Discontinuity[11] of the lithospheric mantle, the presence of molten rocks at the Core-Mantle Discontinuity at ca. 3000 km depth below Siberia,[12] a new model for the formation of the economically important sedimentary basins,[13] Presence of strong seismic anisotropy in cratonic crust with the implication that crust and mantle have been coupled for billions of years,[14] and the presence of a hitherto unknown type of crust in Tibet[15]
Early life and education
In 1978, Thybo earned a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Mathematics and Physics from Aarhus University, Denmark. In 1980, he completed his studies at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He earned two more degrees from Aarhus University: a Master of Science (MSc) in Geophysics in 1982 and a PhD in Geology in 1987.
Honors
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Awards
- 1998: Elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2004: Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London
- 2004: Elected member of the Academia Europaea
- 2010: Elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2012: Elected member of the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences[16]
- 2014: Fellow of the Geological Society of America
- 2016: Honorary editor of the scientific journal Tectonophysics
- 2018: Thousand Talents Award
Positions
- 2002–2007: President, seismology division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
- 2004–2008: External member, board of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo
- 2006–2017: Danish representative, International Committee of Scientific Unions (ICSU)
- 2007–2012: General secretary, European Geosciences Union
- 2010–2016: Board, European Plate Observatory System (EPOS)[17]
- 2010–present: Board, International Lithosphere Programme (ILP)[7]
- 2011–2017: Vice president, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2013 & 2017: Vice president, European Geosciences Union
- 2013–2017: Overseas expert, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
- 2013–present: Nomination committee, Albert Einstein Award of the World Cultural Council
- 2014–present: Board, Danish Academy of Natural Sciences[16]
- 2014–2016: President, European Geosciences Union
- 2015–2017: President-elect, International Lithosphere Program (ILP)
- 2017–present: President, International Lithosphere Program[7]
- 2017–present: Chair, Inge Lehmann Foundation
- 2018–2021: Chair for five panels at the FCT – Portuguese Research Council
- 2019–present: Science Advisory Board for Deep-time Digital Earth[18] of IUGS
- 2019–present: Member of the Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science in the International Science Council
Member of several foreign research council, panels and committees in e.g. USA (NSF), Sweden (VR), International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP), Netherlands, Croatia, France, Canada and China.
References
- ^ Sæl, Visiting address ZEB-buildingSem; Evolution, s vei 2A 0371 Oslo Mail address Centre for Earth; Phone, DynamicsPostbox 1028 Blindern N.-0315 OSLO Norway; CEED, e-mail +47 22 85 40 97 Contact. "Home – The Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics". www.mn.uio.no. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
- ^ "İTÜ | Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences". Avrasya Yer Bilimleri Enstitüsü. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
- ^ IGN (2005-03-10). "Institut for Geovidenskab og Naturforvaltning". ign.ku.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2021-09-15.
- ^ Schiermeier, Quirin (2016-12-05). "Sacking of prominent geoscientist rocks community". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.21095. ISSN 1476-4687.
- ^ "Sacking of top geologist Hans Thybo was unjustified". University Post (in Danish). 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
- ^ "Academic tenure", Wikipedia, 2021-08-05, retrieved 2021-09-15
- ^ a b c "国际岩石圈计划". ilp.nju.edu.cn. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
- ^ "Freedoms and Responsibilities in Science". International Science Council. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
- ^ "Danmarks Naturvidenskabelige Akademi". www.danaak.dk. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
- ^ Abramovitz, T., Berthelsen, A. and Thybo, H., 1997. Proterozoic sutures and terranes in the southeastern Baltic Shield interpreted from BABEL deep seismic data. Tectonophysics, 270(3–4): 259–277. Babel Working Group, 1990. Evidence for early Proterozoic plate tectonics from seismic reflection profiles in the Baltic Shield. Nature, 348(6296): 34–38.
- ^ Thybo, H. and Perchuc, E., 1997. The seismic 8 degrees discontinuity and partial melting in continental mantle. Science, 275(5306): 1626–1629. Thybo, H., 2006. The heterogeneous upper mantle low velocity zone. Tectonophysics, 416(1–4): 53–79.
- ^ Thybo, H., Ross, A.R. and Egorkin, A.V., 2003. Explosion seismic reflections from the Earth's core. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 216(4): 693–702. Ross, A.R., Thybo, H. and Solidilov, L.N., 2004. Reflection seismic profiles of the core-mantle boundary. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 109(B8).
- ^ Thybo, H. and Nielsen, C.A., 2009. Magma-compensated crustal thinning in continental rift zones. Nature, 457(7231): 873–876. Sandrin, A. and Thybo, H., 2008. Seismic constraints on a large mafic intrusion with implications for the subsidence history of the Danish Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 113(B9).
- ^ Thybo, H., Youssof, M. and Artemieva, I.M., 2019. Southern Africa crustal anisotropy reveals coupled crust-mantle evolution for over 2 billion years. Nature Communications, 10.
- ^ Wang, G., Thybo, H. and Artemieva, I.M., 2021. No mafic layer in 80 km thick Tibetan crust. Nature Communications, 12(1): 1069.
- ^ a b "Danmarks Naturvidenskabelige Akademi". www.danaak.dk. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
- ^ "EPOS | European Plate Observing System". www.epos-eu.org. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
- ^ "DDE world". www.ddeworld.org. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
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