2017 - Side 2

The gender ratio of women in editor-in-chief roles of major mainstream journals in astronomy and astrophysics is typically about 5-10 % these days. In the last 50 years of academic records, it is not difficult to find no women in such roles at any given time. The same ratio is just about 10-15 % when it comes to the number of keynote speakers, chairpersons of important conference sessions and distinguished award recipients in major conferences and meetings in astronomy/astrophysics.

Arthur Holmes' medalje, UiOs forskningspris, Nansen-heder. Prestisjetunge priser hagler over Trond Torsvik, en av verdens ypperste forskere innen geofag. Men tilfeldigheter gjorde at han ble interessert i geofysikk. Les mer i dybdeintervjuet på titan.uio.no.

CEED Adjunct Professor Juan Carlos Afonso, Associate Professor at Macquarie University, Australia, has won the 2017 Anton Hales Medal / Australian Academy of Science.

Fridtjof Nansens belønning for fremragende forskning for 2017 er tildelt Trond Helge Torsvik ved Institutt for geofag ved Universitetet i Oslo. Torsvik får prisen for sin forskning innen geofysikk.

Professor Trond H. Torsvik at CEED is participating in the open-source TV series "The Mind of the Universe".

In February 2017 thirty members of the research school DEEP gathered at Dr. Holms Hotel, Geilo for the first General Assembly in the research school network. Networking, lectures and a workshop were on the agenda, and some skiing of course.

Stephanie in an interview in ScienceNews about shergottites.

– For several decades I have been passionate about understanding the restless movements of the continents, making maps of the distribution of tectonic plates and to show where the lands and seas were situated in the geological past