Guus Berkhout
After a scientific career in the geo-energy industry, Professor Guus Berkhout held a chair in geophysical and acoustical imaging at TU Delft, The Netherlands, from 1976 - 2008. During 1998 - 2001 he was a member of the University Board, being responsible for scientific research and intellectual property. In the past decades, he advised the Dutch government on the environmental problems around Schiphol airport. In 2019 he founded, together with science journalist Marcel Crok, the Climate Intelligence Foundation (Clintel).
Guus Berkhout has written several hundred peer reviewed scientific articles on seismic imaging of the Earth’s upper lithosphere.
Dr. Berkhout is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), senior member of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (AcTI), honorary member of the American Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) as well as honorary member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAEG). He is recipient of the Royal Decoration ‘Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau’.
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