Professor Dr. Dimitrios Sokoutis

Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science (ISES)

TecLab Director, Tectonics Group, Faculty of Geosciences

Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University.

The Netherlands

Prof. Addresses:  Netherlands Centre of Integrated Solid Earth Science, Faculty of Geosciences,

Visiting address: Princetonplein 6, 3584 CD Utrecht.

Postal address: PO Box 80 021, 3508 TA Utrecht. The Netherlands.

Phone: +31-(0) 30-2537338

E-mail: dimitrios.sokoutis@uu.nl

Profile

Dr. D. Sokoutis is Senior Researcher at the University of Utrecht, Director of the Tectonic Laboratory (TecLab) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Oslo. He received his Ph.D. (1988) at Uppsala University, Sweden, in Tectonics and Geodynamics. He made his Postdoctoral studies at the University of Rennes 1, addressing the problem of post orogenic collapse. Dr. Sokoutis has taught different Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. courses at the Universities of Uppsala, Sweden, Rennes I, France, Florence, Italy, Thessaloniki, Greece and VU-University of Amsterdam.

Education

1988                 Ph.D. “Deformation of incompetent single layers in experiment and nature”. Uppsala University, Sweden.

1991-1992         Post-Doc. at the University of Rennes 1 (France).

1994                 Habilitation: (Univ. Docent):  “Analogue modelling of detachment fault systems and     core complexes”. Uppsala University, Sweden.

Employment

1979                 Assistant geologist, Swedish Geological Survey (S.G.U.).

1980                 Research assistant, field and laboratory work under Prof. H. Ramberg.

1980-1982         Military service (in Greece).

1982-1989         Research assistant, Uppsala University, Sweden.

1989-1997         Research associate, Uppsala University, Sweden.

1998                  Lecturer at Uppsala University, Sweden

1999-2001         Guest researcher at Thessaloniki University, Greece, (EU- project).

2002                  Senior Researcher (ISES) Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.       

2003-2011          Associate Prof. & Director of the TecLab at VU Universiteit, Amsterdam.

2011-Present      Adjunct Prof. at Oslo Univiversity, Norway.   

2012- Present      Director of the TecLab at Utrecht University.