Information

Membership Number: FCA2123

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Natural Sciences

Corresponding Email: h.thybo@gmail.com; thybo@itu.edu.tr

Homepage(s): https://web.itu.edu.tr/thybo/

Present and Previous Positions

1981: Visiting scholar, Technische Hogeschool Delft, The Netherlands. 

1982-86: PhD. student, Geological Institute, University of Aarhus 

1986-2001: Ass. Professor of Geophysics, Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen 1994: Visiting Professor at Stanford University, California. 2001-2017: Professor of Geophysics, Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen 

2004 -2009: Institute Chair, Geological Institute; Deputy Chair (2001-2004) 

2016-2021 Professor, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, Univ. of Oslo 

2017-: Professor, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University 

2019- : Honorary Professor, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Broadly oriented research in seismology, other geophysics and tectonics. Significant contributions to understanding the evolution and structure of the lithosphere by integrated geophysical-tectonic interpretation. Development of seismic methodology to e.g. imaging fine scale heterogeneity in the crust and mantle and the core-mantle boundary. 

Main results include: 

· Detection of Proterozoic collision (Plate tectonics) from seismic reflection data, 1990 & 1997

· Discovery of the Mid-Lithospheric Discontinuity, 1997;  Explanation of the “teleseismic Pn wave” in terms of whispering gallery waves, 1999 

· Reflection seismic image of the Core-Mantle Boundary, 2002 

· Proposal of a new model for basin formation based on magmatic intrusion, 2008 

· Discovery of Magma-Compensated Crustal Thinning in continental rift zones, 2009 

· Discovery of strong crustal anisotropy in cratons, 2019 

· Discovery of West Antarctica as a back-arc system, not continental lithosphere, 2020 

· Discovery of new type of crust without a mafic lower layer in Tibet, 2021

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

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

2003-2010: Presidium member of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 

2004: Elected Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society, London 

2004: Elected member of Academia Europaea (European Academy of Sciences) 

2004-2008: External council member, Science Faculty, University of Oslo 

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

2010: Elected member of Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters 

2011-2017: Vice President of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 

2012: Elected member of Danish Academy of Natural Sciences 

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

2014-: Board Member of Danish Academy of Natural Sciences 

2014: Elected Fellow of Geological Society of America 

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

2016-: Honorary Editor of Tectonophysics 

2017-: President International Lithosphere Program (ILP), President-elect 2015-17 

2018: 1000 Talents’ Award, China

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j4gFTVsAAAAJ&hl=da&oi=ao/ 

Other Information

Thybo-CV.pdf