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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Geophysics,Geology |
| Keywords | mountain building, subduction, mantle convection, crustal deformation, tectonics |
| Honours and awards | 2019: Francis Birch Lecture Award, Tectonophysics section, American Geophysical Union 2017: Fellow of the American Geophysical Union 2015: Humboldt Research Award from Alexandre von Humboldt Foundation 2014: Stephan Muller medal European Geoscience Union, Division Tectonics-Structural Geology 2013: Prix Viquesnel 2013 Société Géologique de France 2010: Galileo Galilei International Medal for Earth Science 2008: Member of the Academia Europaea. |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Potsdam |
| Institution | GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung |
| Institute | Sektion 4.1 Dynamik der Lithosphäre |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Onno Oncken | Department 4 Geosysteme, GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung, Potsdam |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2015 |
Programme(s)
| 2014 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Faccenna is one of the internationally leading scientists in the field of geodynamics with an emphasis on active tectonics. His theme is the link between observing and quantifying deformation of the Earth's lithosphere with the modelling of these processes employing numerical and experimental techniques in the laboratory. He has particularly gained an internationally leading position in the understanding of the dynamics of the Earth's surface as driven by processes within the Earth's interior. During his stay in Germany, Claudio Faccenna intends to expand his most recent field of research, the deformation processes and mechanical aspects related to subduction and the corresponding topography evolution at the Earth's plate boundaries. |