Sierd Cloetingh is Utrecht University Distinguished Professor. His research field is Earth Sciences. He published more than 380 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (Scopus: 19,49 citations, h-index 77) and has been promotor of close to 80 PhD students of 18 different nationalities.
Sierd Cloetingh received honorary doctorates from six European universities and numerous medals and awards. He is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the Royal Norwegian Academy, the Royal Danish Academy, the German National Academy for Technical Sciences (acatech), the Heidelberg Academy, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Barcelona, and honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was distinguished in 2005 as Chevalier de Legion d'Honneur and in 2014 as Knight of the Royal Order of the Netherlands Lion for his contributions to science and European scientific cooperation in research and education.