Thorsten Becker#
| Membership Number: | 5613 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www-udc.ig.utexas.edu/external/becker/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5656-4564 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - Shell Foundation Distinguished Chair in Geophysics The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX
- 2004 - 2016 Assistant (2004–2009), Associate (2009–2012), Professor of Earth Sciences (2012 - 2016) University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
- 2002 - 2004 Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Postdoctoral Scholar Scripps Institution of Oceanography, U.C. San Diego La Jolla, CA
- Visiting professorship
- Summer 2012 Universit´a di Roma TRE, Visiting Professor Rome
- Fall 2010 University of Tokyo, Visiting Associate Professor Tokyo
- Spring 2008 Princeton University, Visiting Fellow Princeton, NJ
Fields of Scholarship
- Subduction, mantke cinvection
- Dynamic topography
- Dynamics of the lithosphere/mantle system
- Terrestrial planets evolution
- Earthquake
- Seismology
- Interactions between mantle convection and surface deformation
- Geodesy
Honours and Awards
- Evgueni Burov Medal, International Lithosphere Program, IUGG, 2021
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2015
- FriedrichWilhelm Bessel Award, Humboldt Foundation, 2013
- C. F. Gauss lecturer, German Geophysical Society, 2008
