Prof. T. Kusky, Director of Center for Global Tectonics, elected as Foreign Academician of the Academia Europaea, “The Academy of Europe”

Professor Timothy Kusky, Director of the Center for Global Tectonics, has been elected as an Academician, of the world’s prestigious Academia Europaea, the premier academy of humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences, in 35 Europeans countries, and 8 non-European countries. On June 17, Professor Maria Makarov, President of the European Academy of Sciences, sent congratulatory letters to Professor Tim Kusky, and Professor Wang Lizhen of our university, congratulating them on being elected as foreign academicians of the new European Academy of Sciences (this news translated and modified from CUG correspondents Han Wei and Long Tao).

Tim Kusky, an American, has been employed by our university since 2009. He is now a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the School of Earth Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, and Badong National Observatory and Research Station for Geohazards, Ministry of Education. He is an internationally renowned global geo-tectonist and has been elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and also as a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. He is currently the director of the Center for Global Tectonics of our university, the Editor-in-Chief of Earth-Science Reviews (the top review journal in geosciences), the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Earth Sciences, and Associate Editor of the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America Bulletin, and a member of the editorial board of Lithosphere. He has won the Friendship Award of the Chinese government, the friendship Chime Bell Award of Hubei Province, and won the Second Prize of Natural Science of Hubei Province。

Tim Kusky's main research fields are plate tectonics and early Earth history, geological disasters, the application of remote sensing geology in mineral and water resources exploration, and the relationship between human and natural environment. He has conducted global tectonic research in North America, Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Anatolia, Turkey, and the rims of the Indian and Pacific Ocean Pacific Oceans. His achievements have been published in Science, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, Nature Communications, Geology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Earth-Science Reviews, Journal of Geophysical Research, and other internationally renowned journals. He has published more than 400 papers and popular science articles and more than 30 books and monographs; Since 2014, he has been successively selected as "China's highly cited scholar" in the field of Earth and Planets by Elsevier, and rated in Research.com in 2022 in the top 300 scientists in the field of Earth Sciences in the world (the 18th in China), and ranked 265 / 185720 in the "list of top 2% scientists in the world" of Stanford University in the United States, ranking in the top 0.1% of all fields in science. Tim Kusky has made important contributions to the development of Precambrian Geology in our university and China and the promotion of international influence.

Founded in 1988 and headquartered in London, the Academia Europaea is one of the most extensive and influential scientific organizations across regions and academic fields in the world, representing the highest scientific level and academic status of the European humanities and natural sciences. Academicians of the Academia Europaea come from 35 European and 8 non-European countries, including outstanding European scientists in the fields of humanities, social sciences, material sciences, life sciences, mathematics, engineering sciences and medicine, or scientists with long-term close cooperation with Europe, including more than 70 Nobel Prize winners. Candidates are first recommended to the Ministry of Science by Academicians from different countries, and then recommended to the Nomination Committee for communication review after preliminary review by the Ministry of Science, and finally approved by the Special Committee of the European Academy of Sciences. Only a small number of scientists outside the European Union can be elected as Foreign Academicians, with a proportion of less than 5% of the entire Academy membership. Academician Cheng Qiuming, director of the State Key Laboratory of Geological Process and Mineral Resources of our university, was elected as a foreign academician of the European Academy of Sciences in 2020. (Editor: Wang Junfeng reviewed by: Chen Huawen)