President Yu and Prof. Timothy Ian Eglinton
On the morning of April 27, President Yu Zhigang met with Prof. Timothy Ian Eglinton, Fellow of the Royal Society and world renowned organic geochemist after he chaired the international assessment on OUC-based Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education. They exchanged ideas on strengthening OUC marine chemistry and geoscience. Present at the meeting was Zhao Meixun, Director of MOE Key Laboratory.
Speaking highly of what has been achieved recently in OUC marine chemistry, Prof. Eglinton gave his advice, based on the assessment completed the day before, on how to improve the faculty’s collaborative innovation and the graduate students’ education, as well as bringing in young talents for new growth point to make OUC marine chemistry powerful worldwide. President Yu congratulated Prof. Eglinton on his election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society and expressed gratitude for his long-term effort m in support of OUC marine chemistry construction, particularly in chairing this international assessment on MOE Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, as well as for his valuable advice on the Lab.
Heading the overseas team of the talent program at OUC Marine Chemistry Innovation Base, Prof. Timothy Ian Eglinton is in long-term cooperation with OUC in scientific research, exchange and education of the graduate students, and the platform construction of the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Center. He was also the panel leader in the international assessment of MOE Key Lab of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology in April 24-26.
Timothy Ian Eglinton
As a world renowned organic geochemist, Timothy Eglinton is the professor and dean at the Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He was the research fellow and the dean of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry in Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the United States (2004-2010). He was elected the Fellow of the Royal Society, UK, in 2014.
The research of Prof. Timothy Ian Eglinton is uncovering the processes that govern the Earth’s carbon cycle from the molecular level to the global scale, as well as reconstructing the ancient biological activity and environmental conditions by using organic signatures preserved in the geologic record. Prof. Eglinton studies carbon cycling on a range of spatial and temporal scales, including processes of the origination, migration, transfer and burial of organic matter on the continents and in the oceans. The recent focus is the source of organic matter in marginal seas and land lakes, and modern carbon cycle. Remarkable achievement has been made in the analytic and testing technology of the organic matter in the sediment, especially C13, C14 and D/H isotope in single organic molecules. He takes lead in the world organic geochemistry research.
