Munich Geophysicist Hans-Peter Bunge elected member of Academia Euopaea

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Bunge, Chair in Geophysics at LMU, was elected as full member of the section "Earth & Cosmic Sciences" of the Academia Europaea at their council meeting on April 24-25, 2008 in Heidelberg, Germany. The decision is explained with Bunge's outstanding international contributions to the field of "Global Geophyisics & Geodynamics" and role in scientific high-performance computing.

Bunge taught at the world-renowned Princeton University prior to accepting his Munich appointment in 2003. Bunge is already the second geoscientist of the LMU to receive this honor within the shortest time - the other being Prof. Dingwell in 2007.

The Academia Europaea was founded in 1988 and maintains their seat in London. Today it has 2000 members from 35 European and 8 non-European countries. Members are leading experts from physics, chemistry, biology, the geosciences, medicine, mathematics, as well as the social sciences and humanities, law and economics. Under the auspices of their membership in the Academica Europaea these scientists of various disciplines commit to the joint goal of furthering learning, education and research.

For Bunge, who is also president of the geodynamics section of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), this election to the Academia Europaea is already the second academy-membership following his election to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 2007.