Vladimir Cermák#
| Membership Number: | 1037 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CZECH REPUBLIC |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1970 Geophysical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- 1971 - 1990 Head of the Department of Geothermics
- 1990 - 1998 Director of the Institute
- currently Senior Research Scientist
- 1968 - 1970 Post-doctorate fellow, Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, Canada
- 1960 - 1968 Geophysical Institute Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Praha
Fields of Scholarship
- Geothermal modelling and Heat flow mapping
- Thermal properties of rocks
- Recent climate change and Global warming
- Basic heat flow studies in terms of crustal and lithospheric structure
- Dynamics of the Earth`s crust
- Inversion of borehole temperature data in ground surface temperature history
Honours and Awards
- 1987 Silver Medal of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences for merits in physical sciences
- 1991 - 1997 Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
- 1992 - 1997 Member of the Evaluation Commission
- 1995 Edward A.Flinn III Medal of the American Geophysical Union
- 1995 O.Yu.Schmidt Medal of the Institute of Earth Physics, Moscow
- 1998 Patricius Plakette from Deutsche Geothermische Vereinigung e.V.
- 1998 - 2002 Member of the Scientific Council, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University
- Since 1999 President of the Czech National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics and Czech Delegate to the General IUGG Assembly
- Since 2001 Chairman of the Evaluation Committee for the DrSc title of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- 2003 Ernst Mach Medal for Merits in Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
