Onno Oncken

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Onno Oncken (born June 4, 1955 in Kehl ) is a German geologist and recipient of the Leibniz Prize 1998. He is a professor at the Free University of Berlin and director of Section 3.1: Dynamics of the Lithosphere at the Geo Research Center Potsdam .

Life

From 1975 to 1980 Oncken studied geology at the University of Cologne , where he completed his diploma. This was followed by a doctoral degree there with a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , which he completed in 1982 with his dissertation Determination and Development of Large Tectonic Structures in the Northern Rhenohercynian (e.g. Ebbeantiklinorium). finished. After a year-long postdoctoral fellowship with the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at the Geological Institute of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, he held an assistant position for structural geology at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1983 to 1989 .

In 1988 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on geometry, deformation mechanisms and the history of paleostress in large zones of movement in the higher crust (Rhenish Slate Mountains). In 1989 he was appointed to the chair for structural geology at the University of Würzburg . In 1992 he was appointed head of the project area Structure, Evolution and Geodynamics at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam and has held the professorship for endogenous dynamics at the Free University of Berlin since 1994 . Oncken has been Director of Section 3.1 (Dynamics of the Lithosphere) at the Geo Research Center Potsdam since 2003. In 2004 he was appointed program spokesperson for the GFZ research program.

In 1987 Oncken received the Hermann Credner Prize from the German Geological Society . From 1997 to 2004 he was Vice President of the Geological Association . He was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 1998 in the Geology section for his services in the field of geodynamic causes of mountain-forming processes. He has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 1999, a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2001, and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Geosciences Section) since 2002 . In 2006 he was appointed a member of the Academia Europaea and was a Moore Fellow visiting professor at Caltech in Pasadena in 2007/2008 . In 2015 he was awarded the Gustav Steinmann Medal for his scientific contributions to geodynamics, global tectonic processes and the quantification of geotectonic processes .

Act

Oncken's research focuses on the study of the dynamics of geotectonic processes ( geodynamics ) and their quantification and modeling , as well as the investigation of the kinematics of tectonic plates (global tectonics). In addition, his research group deals with the interpretation of seismic experiments in the Variscides , the Urals and the Andes . In 1994 he became project manager of the German Continental Reflection Seismic Project ( DEKORP ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Awarding of the Leibniz Prize to Oncken. GFZ press release from February 4, 1998
  2. ↑ Onno Oncken. with picture. Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 25, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Onno Oncken. with picture. Member entry at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 25, 2016 .
  4. ^ Onno Oncken's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 25, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Oncken, Onno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and recipient of the Leibnitz Prize
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Throat