Honours
2015- present
- Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies – University of Durham (2021)
- Harry. H. HESS Medal of the American Geophysical Union (2020)
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) President´s Research Council (2020-2023)
- Member of the EGU Arthur HOLMES Medal Committee (2020-)
- Keynote Lecturer – Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati Sapienza (2020)
- Officer of the Order of Canada -O.C. (2020)
- Arthur HOLMES Medal & Honorary Membership - European Geosciences Union (2020)
- Distinguished Visiting Professor – Xiamen University (2019-)
- Abraham-Gottlob-Werner Medal – German Mineralogical Society (DMG) (2019)
- Fellow and Honorary Member – Intl. Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) (2019)
- 2nd European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Researcher Award (2019-2024)
- D.Sc. (honoris causa) – bestowed by Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México (2019)
- VIP Career Achievement Award of the Geological Association of Canada (2019)
- Center of Advanced Studies (CAS-LMU) Research Group Leader (2018-2019)
- Full membership – Sigma Xi (2018)
- Life Member of the Board of Trustees (Kuratorium) of the Deutsches Museum (2017-)
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - AAAS (2017)
- elected to the German National Academy of Science - LEOPOLDINA (2017)
- Fellow - Gutenberg Research College (GRC) - Universität Mainz (2017-2021)
- Member – Board of Trustees - GeoForschungszentrum Potsdam (2017-2019)
- Visiting Professor – Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (2016)
- Arthur L. DAY Medal of the Geological Society of America (2016)
- Vice-President of the Academia Europaea (2015-)
2000-2015
- PEACOCK Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada (2015)
- President - International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth´s Interior
(IAVCEI) (2015-2019) - Member of the European Academies Scientific Advisory Council EASAC (2015)
- Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia (2013)Appointed to the Executive Committee of the Deep Carbon Observatory (2014)
- Appointed to the Board of the Academia Europaea (2014-2016)
- Capital Science Evening Lecture (Washington D.C.) (2014)
- Otto SCHOTT Research Award – Ernst-Abbe-Fonds (2014)
- Elected to the German National Academy of Science and Engineering – ACATECH (2013)
- Norman Levi BOWEN Award of the American Geophysical Union (2013)
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany - Bundesverdienstkreuz (2013)
- D.Sc. (honoris causa) – bestowed by University College London (2012)
- D.Sc. (honoris causa) – bestowed by the University of Alberta, CA (2012)
- AAAS Topical Lecturer – Vancouver, CA (2012)
- Named 3rd Secretary General of the European Research Council (2011)
- Elected to the Royal Society of Canada (2010)
- Elected President of the European Geosciences Union (2011-2013)
- Senior Associate – Rachel Carson Center – LMU (2010-)
- European Research Council Advanced Researcher Award (2010-2011, 2014-2017*)
(*suspended 9/2011-12/2013 for term as Secretary General of the ERC) - Visiting Professor – Universitá di Roma Tre – “Scuola dottorale in Geodinamica
Ambiente e Risorse” (2010) - Elected as Union Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2009)
- Named as founding member of the Center for Advanced Studies – LMU (2008-)
- Chair of the Earth and Cosmic Sciences section of the Academia Europaea (2008-)
- Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer (2008-2009)
- Blaustein Visiting Professor – Stanford University (2008)
- Robert Wilhelm BUNSEN Medal of the European Geoscience Union (2008)
- elected Chair of the Advisory board of the Deutsches Museum (2007-)
- LMUexcellent Research Professor of Experimental Volcanology (2008-2010)
- Elected Member of the Academia Europaea (2007)
- Blaustein visiting Professor – Stanford University (2007)
- Presidential visiting Professor – California Institute of Technology (2006)
- Elected as Scientific Advisor to the Deutsches Museum (2005)
- ISI Highly Cited Researcher (world´s most cited authors) – Geosciences (2004-)
- Berry Lecturer of the Mineralogical Association of Canada (2003)
- Elected Founding President of the Section of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology of the newly founded European Union of Geosciences (2002)
1986 - 1999
- Elected Secretary - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology section of the American Geophysical Union 2000-2002 (1999)
- Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada (1998)
- Lansdowne Lecturer of the University of Victoria (1997)
- MSA Award - Mineralogical Society of America (1996)
- Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America (1995)
- NSG Distinguished Scholar - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (1994)
- Gerhard-Hess-Research Prize of the German Science Foundation (DFG) (1993-98)
- Victor-Moritz-Goldschmidt-Prize of the German Mineralogical Society (DMG) (1991)
- AGU Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing - Journal of Geophysical Research (1989)
1980 - 1986
- Carnegie Institution of Washington Fellowship (1984-1986)
- NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship (1984-86)
- NSERC 1967 Science Scholarship (1980)
- Hugh Lilly Memorial Scholarship (1980)
- University Medal for Academic Excellence (1980)
1976 - 1980
- Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Undergraduate Thesis Award (1980)
- Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Trophy (1979)
- Falconbridge Nickel Mine Scholarship (1979)
- Alexander Murray Geological Trophy (1979)
- Falconbridge Nickel Mine Scholarship (1978)
- Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Undergraduate Award (1978)
- Iron Ore Company of Canada Scholarship (1977)
- Newfoundland Centenary Scholarship (1976)
1974 - 1975
- Newfoundland Electoral District Scholarship (1975)
- Canadian Association of Physicists High School Award (1975)
- Newfoundland Centenary Scholarship (1974)
Last Updated: November 2020