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Hans Thybo (born 19. February 1954 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish Geophysicist and Geologist. He has earlier been Professor of Geophysics at Geological Institute and at Institute for Geography and Geology at University of Copenhagen, as well as at Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics.[1] at University of Oslo. He is now Professor at Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences[2] at Istanbul Technical University and at 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 illegally dismissed from his Chair in 2016 on the basis of false accusations from managers at the department[4]. The dismissal was later found illegal (violating the employment agreements) by an arbitration court and Thybo received a modest economic compensation, but University of Copenhagen did not re-employ Thybo, and the university did not apply sanctions against those persons who submitted the false accusations[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]

Education

Awards

1998: Elected member of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

2004: Fellow at Royal Astronomical Society, London

2004: Elected member of Academia Europaea (the European academy of sciences)

2010: Elected member of Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters

2012: Elected member of Danish Academy of Natural Sciences[16]

2014: Fellow of Geological Society of America

2016: Honorary Editor for the scientific journal Tectonophysics

2018: 1000 Talents Award, China

Selected posts of trust

2002-2007:     President for the seismology division of European Geosciences Union (EGU)

2004-2008:     External member of the board of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo

2006-2017:     Danish representative to ICSU (International Committee of Scientific Unions)

2007-2012:     General Secretary for European Geosciences Union (EGU)

2010-2016:     Member of the board of European Plate Observatory System (EPOS)[17]

2010-:             Board member of International Lithosphere Programme (ILP)[7]

2011-2017:     Vicepresident for Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

2013-2017:     Overseas Expert for Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

2013-:            Member of the nomination committee for Albert Einstein Award from World Cultural Council

2014-:            Board member of Danish Academy of Natural Sciences[16]

2014-2016:    President for European Geosciences Union, Vicepresident 2013 & 2017

2017-:            President for International Lithosphere Program[7] (ILP), President-elect 2015-17

2017-:            Chair, Inge Lehmann Foundation

2018-21:       Chair for 5 panels at FCT – Portuguese Research Council

2019-:            Science Advisory Board for Deep-time Digital Earth[18] of IUGS

2019-:           Member of Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science for 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

  1. ^ 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "İTÜ | Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences". Avrasya Yer Bilimleri Enstitüsü. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  3. ^ IGN (2005-03-10). "Institut for Geovidenskab og Naturforvaltning". ign.ku.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  4. ^ Schiermeier, Quirin (2016-12-05). "Sacking of prominent geoscientist rocks community". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.21095. ISSN 1476-4687.
  5. ^ "Sacking of top geologist Hans Thybo was unjustified". University Post (in Danish). 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  6. ^ "Academic tenure", Wikipedia, 2021-08-05, retrieved 2021-09-15
  7. ^ a b c "国际岩石圈计划". ilp.nju.edu.cn. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  8. ^ "Freedoms and Responsibilities in Science". International Science Council. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  9. ^ "Danmarks Naturvidenskabelige Akademi". www.danaak.dk. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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).
  13. ^ 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).
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ Wang, G., Thybo, H. and Artemieva, I.M., 2021. No mafic layer in 80 km thick Tibetan crust. Nature Communications, 12(1): 1069.
  16. ^ a b "Danmarks Naturvidenskabelige Akademi". www.danaak.dk. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  17. ^ "EPOS | European Plate Observing System". www.epos-eu.org. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  18. ^ "DDE world". www.ddeworld.org. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
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