Keith Moffatt#
| Membership Number: | 1607 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/hkm2 http://www.igf.fuw.edu.pl/KB/HKM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 - 2004 President, Int. Union of Theor. and Appl. Mech.
- 1961 - 1976 and since 1980 Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
- Since 2002 Emeritus Professor, Univ. Cambridge
- 1996 - 2001 Director, Isaac Newton Institute for Math. Sciences
- 1992 - 1999 Professeur d’exercice partiel, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaisseau
- 1980 - 2002 Professor of Mathematical Physics, University Cambridge
- 1977 - 1980 Professor of Applied Mathematics, University Bristol
- 1961 - 1976 Asssistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, University Cambridge
- 1962 Ph.D Applied Mathematics, Univ. Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Fluid dynamics in geophysics and astrophysics
Honours and Awards
- Dr.h.c. Grenoble (1987), SUNY(1990), Edinburgh(2001), Eindhoven(2006), Glasgow(2007)
- Member of Academies: FRS (1986),FRSE (1987), Royal Netherlands Academy (1991), Academie des Sciences, Paris (1998), Accademia dei Lincei, Rome(2001), Nat.Acad.Sci.(USA)(2008)
- Panetti-Ferrari Int. Prize and Gold Medal, Euromech Prize in Fluid Mechanics, Senior Whitehead Prize (LMS), Hughes Medal (Roy.Soc.), David Crighton Medal (LMS and IMA).
