Stephan Mueller Medal 2006

The Dutch scientist Sierd A.P.L. Cloetingh  has won the prestigious EGU Stephan Mueller Medal in recognition of his fundamental contributions to modelling continental deformation and sedimentary basin evolution, and of his outstanding leadership in international geoscience programmes.

The Stephan Mueller Medal has been established by the Division on Solid Earth Geophysics (SE) in recognition of the scientific achievements of Stephan Mueller. This medal is reserved for scientists in recognition of their outstanding contributions to Tectonics and Lithospheric Geophysics.

Professor Sierd Cloetingh is working at the Netherlands Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences.

Resumé

Inspired by his first professor in Groningen, the great sedimentologist Prof. P.H. Kuenen, Professor Cloetingh developed a special interest in sedimentary basins. His geophysics background led him to adopt a lithospheric scale view, as well as a quantitative numerical modeling approach. He obtained an international reputation by his early work on the relation between relative sealevel changes and temporal variations in lithospheric stress field.
In 1988 he was appointed as full professor of Tectonics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. In only a couple of years Sierd Cloetingh succeeded in establishing a strong group with excellent international connections, which rapidly rose to international prominence in the field of sedimentary basins research. He and his co-workers explored numerous aspects of sedimentary basin evolution and related tectonic processes, mostly concerning the evolution of the European continental lithosphere.
Around 1990 Cloetingh realized the great opportunities provided by the political developments in Europe. He developed intensive and very successful collaborative research programmes with scientists from Eastern Europe, thereby having a keen interest in the fostering of young talents.

Medal Lecture

Professor Cloetingh will accept his medal and give his Medal lecture during the EGU General Assembly, to be held in Vienna, Austria from 2 – 7 April 2006. The lecture ‘Intraplate deformation and neotectonic controls on Europe's continental lithospherestarts’ starts at Tuesday, 4 April at 18:15 h in Lecture Room 5.

More information: http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/awards/stephan_mueller_overview.html