Sierd Cloetingh, Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. He published more than 330 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has been promotor of more than 70 PhD students of 14 different nationalities. He served the Earth Science community in various functions, including Presidency of the European Geophysical Society. Currently he is President of the International Lithosphere Programme, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal “Global and Planetary Change”, and Chairman of the collaborative research programme TOPO-EUROPE. He was elected member of Academia Europaea in 1994 and served Academia Europaea as Chair of the Earth and Marine and Earth and Cosmic Sciences Sections. In 2008 he was elected by the Council as Vice-President of Academia Europaea, and 2014 was elected as President. He was a member of the Scientific Council of the ERC from 2009-2015. His current research interests are solid earth geophysics, tectonics, intraplate deformation, lithospheric dynamics, sedimentary basin evolution, sea level change."Las opiniones expresadas por los ponentes no reflejan, necesariamente, las de la Fundación Ramón Areces ni de las instituciones en las que trabajan"
