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Biography
Professor Lambeck AO has been at the Australian National University since
1977, including ten years as Director of the Research School of Earth
Sciences. He is currently also President of the Australian Academy of
Science and a member of the Antarctic Ecosystem and
Environment CRC. Before returning to Australia he was Professor at the
University of Paris. He has also worked at the Smithsonian and Harvard
Observatories in Cambridge, USA. He has studied at the University of
New South Wales, the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, the
National Technical University of Athens and Oxford University from which
he obtained DPhil and DSc degrees. He has held visiting appointments
in Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1984 and to the
Royal Society in 1994. He is a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993), Norwegian Academy of Science and
Letters (1994), Academia Europaea (1999),the Académie des
Sciences, Institut de France (2005), and the US National Academy of Sciences (2009). He has received a number of international
prizes and awards including the Tage Erlander Prize from the Swedish
Research Council (2001), the Prix George Lemaître from the Université catholique
de Louvain (2001), and the Eminent Scientist Award from the Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science (2004).
He has published two books and more than 250 papers on subjects in geophysics,
geology, geodesy, space science, celestial mechanics, environmental geoscience,
and glaciology.