Onno Oncken#
| Membership Number: | 2381 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/lithosphere-dynamics/staff/profil/onno-oncken |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007-2008 Guest professor at Caltech/Pasadena
- Since 2003 Director of department 'Geodynamics' at GFZ
- Since 1994 Full professor for 'Dynamics of the Earth's Crust' at the Earth Sciences Department of the Free University of Berlin in conjunction with the position at the GFZ
- 1992 Head of section at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
- 1989 Associate professor for Structural Geology at the Institute for Geology in Würzburg
- 1983 Assistant professor for Structural Geology at the Geological-Paleontological Institute in Frankfurt
- 1980-1981 PhD student at Earth Sciences Department, Cologne University
Fields of Scholarship
- Tectonics of plate margins and orogens
- Deformation analysis
- Analogue modelling
Honours and Awards
- PhD-fellowship of the 'Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes'
- Postdoc Fellowship of the Thyssen Foundation
- Hermann Credner-Price of the German Geological Society
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Price of the German Science Foundation
- Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- Member of Leopoldina Academy
- Member of Academia Europaea
- Moore Scholar at Caltech, Pasadena, USA
