Information

Membership Number: FCA2123

Membership Type: Fellowship; Academic Council Member

Division: Natural Sciences

Corresponding Email: ***hybo@gmail.com; *****@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:      Assist-Assoc. 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 (UoC)

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

2017-2025:      Professor, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University

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

2022-2025:      Distinguished Professor, SinoProbe Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

2026-:              Distinguished Professor, Zhejiang Deep-time Digital Earth International Research Center

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;

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

·         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

·         New model for relation between eclogitisation and topography, 2025

·         New model for continental subduction explains explosion of life, 2025

·         New model for plateau uplift in Anatolia, Tibet and Andes, 2024

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:      Vicepresident of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

2012:               Elected member of Danish Academy of Natural Sciences, Board member since 2014

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

2014:               Elected Fellow of Geological Society of America

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

2016-:              Honorary Editor of Tectonophysics

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

2018:               1000 Talents’ Award, China

2024:               Friendship Award, the highest award to foreigners from the Chinese Government

2025:               Elected member of the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Selected International and National Posts

2002:     Founding member, European Geosciences Union (EGU)

2002-2007:     President (seismology) for the EGU (1999-2002 for EGS)

2004-2008:     Executive board, science committee, Int. Geological Congress 2008

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

2007-2012:      General Secretary of European Geosciences Union.

2010-2016:     Council member and initiator of European Plate Observatory System (EPOS)

2010-:     Board member of International Lithosphere programme (ILP)

2013-:     Panel member, Albert Einstein Award from World Cultural Council (post Nobel Laureate)

2017-:     Chair, Inge Lehmann Foundation

2018-25:     Chair, 12 panels for FCT Res. Council, Portugal, incl. Evaluation of Centres of Excellence,

2019-2023:     Member of Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science for Int. Science Council

2019-:     Member, Chair since 2022, Science committee for DDE (Deep Digital Earth)

Editorial activities

Guest editor of 11 special issues of scientific journals and one book since 1996.

1999-2006:   Editorial board, Journal of Applied Geophysics

2000-2016:   Editor in Chief, Tectonophysics; Honorary Editor since 2016

2003-2017:   Editorial board, Geophysical Surveys, geophysical Journal, eEARTH

2009-2016:   Associate Editor, Solid Earth, since 2017 Advisory board, Solid Earth

2019-:           Associate Editor, Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews

2020-:           Editor in Chief, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL)

Selected Publications

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

Other Information

Thybo-CV.pdf

2026.04.06 Letter to Core Academy (1).pdf