Sergej Zilitinkevich#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2019 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2000 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
Sergej Zilitinkevich passed away February 15, 2021.
Positions Held
- Since 2008 Research Professor, Finnish Meteorological Institute / Research Director, Division Atmos. Sci., Dept. Physics, Helsinki University, Finland
- Since 2011 Visiting Chief Scientist, Dept. of Radio-physics, Nizhny Novgorod University, Russia
- 2004 - 2007 Finland: Marie Curie Chair (Boundary-Layer Physics), University of Helsinki
- 1998 - 2003 Sweden: Professor, Chair of Meteorology, Uppsala Univ. (since 2003 Prof. Emeritus)
- 1991 - 1997 Germany: Visiting Professor, Max Planck Inst. of Meteorology, Hamburg University, Alfred Wegener Inst. of Polar and Marine Research, GKSS Research Centre
- 1990 - 1990 Denmark: Visiting Professor, RISØ National Laboratory
- 1959 - 1990 Russia: Main Geophysical Observatory (Head of Lab), Institute of Lake Research(Senior Scientist), Institute of Oceanology (Founding Director of Leningrad Branch), Russian State Hydrometeorological University (Professor)
Fields of Scholarship
- Boundary layer meteorology
- Atmospheric physics
Honours and Awards
- 2000 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal of European Geophysical Society
- 2015 Alfred Wegener Medal of European Geoscience Union (http://www.egu.eu/news/126/egu-announces-2015-awards-and-medals
)
- Member of Academia Europaea (Earth and Cosmic Sciences, since 2002)
- Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (Geosciences, since 2009)
- 2012 Member of Societas Scientiarum Fennica (Mathematical & Physical Sciences)
- 2012 Member of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Fellow of Royal Meteorological Society (UK)
- 2015 Honorary member of European Geoscience Union
- 2003 Professor Emeritus, Uppsala University (Sweden)
- 2015 Doctor honoris causa, University of Pretoria (South Africa)
- 2015 Doctor honoris causa, University of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia)
- 2016 Doctor honoris causa, Odessa Ecological University (Ukraine)
