Director for the Centre for Planetary Habitability and Professor of Geodynamics Trond Helge Torsvik is honoured with The Geological Society’s highest award 2024, the Wollaston Medal.
The Wollaston Medal was first awarded in 1831 and is given to geoscientists “who have had a significant influence by means of a substantial body of excellent research in either or both 'pure' and 'applied' aspects of the science”.
Ground-breaking scientific contributions to geosciences
Professor Torsvik is recognized for his huge scientific contributions and The Society’s press release states the following:
“Torsvik is acclaimed as being the first to quantitatively link the large low-velocity seismic structures in the deep mantle with the surface evolution of volcanism in the form of Large Igneous Provinces, one of the most important advances in geosciences over the past two decades. Latterly, he expanded the correlation to the eruption sites of diamond-bearing kimberlites. Torsvik also played a key role in the establishment of The Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED) at the University of Oslo in 2013”.
The society also refers to past recognition of Torsvik's huge scientific contributions honoured to him, the Leopold von Buch award from the German Geological Society for outstanding contributions to the understanding of geodynamics and the Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership from the European Geosciences Union in 2015. The formal presentation and celebration of the Awards and Funds will take place at Geological Society of London, Burlington House, London, 12th of June 2024.
Trond Helge Torsvik, is Professor of Geodynamics, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo and is the Director of the Centre for Planetary Habitability, University of Oslo – one of the Norwegian Centres of Excellence.
The Faculty, Department of Geosciences, and everyone at PHAB congratulate Trond on this great recognition and accomplishment!
The Geological Society of London
The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. It is the oldest national geological society in the world and the largest in Europe, with more than 12,000 Fellows. The Society was founded on 13 November 1807. (Wikipedia)
The Geological Society of London honour scientific contributions to the geosciences and the geoscience profession. The Society's premier medal is the Wollaston Medal. See the full list of award and fund winners for this year here: The Geological Society: Society awards 2024.