Dutch–Australian geophysicist
Portrait photograph of Kurt Lambeck for the 2018 Prime Minister's Prize For Science. Professor Kurt Lambeck AC, FRS, FAA, FRSN (born 20 September 1941 in Utrecht , Netherlands [1] ) is Professor of Geophysics at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia . He has also taught at University of Paris and at Smithsonian and Harvard Observatories.[2]
His current research interests include the interactions between ice sheets, oceans and the solid Earth , as well as changes in ocean levels and their impact on human populations.[3]
Honours and awards Lambeck was President of the Australian Academy of Science from 2006 to 2010. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of New South Wales ,[4] as well as the recipient of many prestigious international awards.[3] He is a member of the French Academy of Science, the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europaea, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters .[5] Lambeck is a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993.[6]
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