Barbara Romanowicz
Barbara A. Romanowicz (born April 5, 1950 in Suresnes , France ) is a French-American geophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley , and at the Collège de France .
Life
Barbara Romanowicz is the daughter of the Polish publisher Kazimierz Romanowicz and his wife, the Polish writer and translator Zofia Romanowiczowa . She studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de jeunes filles Mathematics (completion 1974) and acquired in 1975 at both the Harvard University a Masters in applied physics , and at the University of Paris VI , a Doctorat de 3 e cycle in astronomy , 1979 at the University of Paris VII a Ph.D. (Doctorat d'état) in geophysics. From 1978 she worked for the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris , where she developed the worldwide seismological network GEOSCOPE - interrupted by postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1979–1981. In 1991 she became director of the seismological laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), where she set up an earthquake early warning system in collaboration with the United States Geological Survey . She has held the chair for the physics of the Earth's interior at the Collège de France since 2011 . Her working group is also still active at UCB, where she continues to hold a professorship for geophysics.
Romanowicz explores deep layers in the inner structure of the earth using seismological data and mathematical models. She also deals with earthquakes and the associated laws of scale , as well as with modern seismic and geophysical broadband observations. According to Google Scholar, it has an h-index of 65, according to the Scopus database it has an h-index of 56 (as of March 2020).
Barbara Romanowicz is married and has two children.
Awards (selection)
- 1989 Prix Paul Doistau-Émile Bleeds from the Académie des sciences
- 1992 Médaille d'argent des Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
- 1999 Alfred Wegener Medal of the European Union of Geosciences (today European Geosciences Union )
- 2001 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2003 Beno Gutenberg Medal of the European Geophysical Society (today European Geosciences Union )
- 2005 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Knight of the Legion of Honor
- 2009 Inge Lehmann Medal of the American Geophysical Union
- 2013 member of the Académie des sciences
- 2016 to 2019 member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council
- 2018 foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2019 Emil Wiechert Medal of the German Geophysical Society
- 2019 Marcus Milling Medal from the American Geosciences Institute
- 2019 William Bowie Medal from the American Geophysical Union
- 2020 Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London
Web links
- Barbara A. Romanowicz and curriculum vitae (PDF; 122 kB) at the University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
- Barbara Romanowicz at the Collège de France (college-de-france.fr)
- Global Seismology Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alice-Catherine Carls: The Renaissance of Zofia Romanowicz (1922-2010). In: worldliteraturetoday.org. September 12, 2016, accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Barbara Romanowicz. In: google.de. Google Scholar , accessed March 4, 2020 .
- ^ Romanowicz, Barbara A. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed March 4, 2020 .
- ^ Alfred Wegener Medal - European Union of Geosciences (EUG). In: egu.eu. European Geosciences Union , accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter R. (PDF; 508 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 30, 2019 .
- ^ Barbara A. Romanowicz. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , February 2015, accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Barbara Romanowicz, Beno Gutenberg Medalist 2003. In: egu.eu. European Geosciences Union , accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Barbara Romanowicz. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ^ Barbara A. Romanowicz. In: agu.org. American Geophysical Union . Retrieved May 30, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Barbara Romanowicz. In: academie-sciences.fr. Académie des sciences , accessed on May 30, 2019 (French).
- ↑ Barbara Romanowicz. In: erc.europa.eu. European Research Council , March 6, 2017, accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ^ Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft e V: The President of the DGG, Christian Bücker, awards the Emil Wiechert Medal to Barbara Romanowicz. In: @dgg_news. Twitter , March 4, 2019, accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Professor Barbara A. Romanowicz Recognized as the 2019 Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist. In: americangeosciences.org. American Geosciences Institute, April 12, 2019, accessed May 30, 2019 .
- ^ Robin Bell, Mary Anne Holmes: 2019 AGU Union Medal, Award, and Prize Recipients Announced. In: eos.org. August 22, 2019, accessed on August 26, 2019 .
- ↑ 2020 winners of Society awards. In: geolsoc.org.uk. Geological Society of London, March 2, 2020, accessed March 4, 2020 .
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SURNAME | Romanowicz, Barbara |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Romanowicz, Barbara A. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-American geophysicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1950 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Suresnes , France |