2024

On June 12th 2024, at a ceremony at the Geological Society of London, Burlington House, Prof. Trond H. Torsvik will receive the Wollaston Medal 2024.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers, including PHAB’s Justin Tonti-Filippini and CEED’s Boris Robert, conducted a large paleomagnetic and geochronologic study of 800-million-year-old red beds from South China. In contrast to previous studies in the region, their results suggest that Earth’s geomagnetic field and rotation axis were stable at that time. Their paper was just selected as an Editors’ Highlight in JGR Solid Earth.

Professor Stephanie Werner is elected as a member of the Academia Europaea (AE) from 2024. Membership of the AE is for individuals that have demonstrated "sustained academic excellence".

Centre director and Professor Trond Helge Torsvik, University of Oslo is awarded the Wollaston Medal for 2024 for his ground-breaking scientific contributions to geosciences. The medal is the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.

PHAB’s Postdoctoral Fellow Jaganmoy Jodder has written an article in The Conversation about rocks that were formed 3.5 billion years ago. Which geological processes drove the formations and where do you find them?

Prof. Stephanie Werner ble intervjuet av Forskning.no for å kommentere på nye argumenter på hvorvidt det finnes flytende hav under Mimas' overflate.

The internationally recognised Norwegian geochemist, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt ("Father of modern geochemistry", 1888-1947), was based at the Geological Institute and the Mineralogical-Geological Museum (merged into NHM in 2000) at the University of Oslo.