# Irina Artemieva

Irina M. Artemieva (born 4 August 1961) is a Danish professor of Geophysics at the the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research (Germany), distinguished professor at the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (Wuhan) and Visiting Professor at Stanford University (USA).
She served as the Vice President (2022–2023) and President (2023–2024) of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), but was removed from her position as President for violating their code of conduct.

## Education

Artemieva graduated from the Physics Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1984, earning B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in physics. As a student, she represented the university team in cross-country skiing and sport orienteering and worked as an official English interpreter at the 1980 Olympic Games and the 1984 International Geological Congress.
She received a PhD degree in physics and mathematics with a minor in geophysics in 1987 from the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Artemieva had research contracts with the Schlumberger, Anglo-American, and De Beers companies.
In 2007, she defended her habilitation thesis at the University of Copenhagen (official referees Professors R. Frei, Sierd Cloetingh, K. Furlong) and was the second person in her institute to receive a doctor scientiarum degree (analogue to habilitation degree in Germany) in geosciences.

## Research and publications

Artemieva's research concentrates on the lithospheric structure of the Archean cratons and Precambrian geodynamics, from the Archean Earth to modern collisional tectonics and back-arc basins. Her first-authored paper on the thermal state of the continents was published in 2001. Artemieva developed a global digital database of the continental lithosphere thermal thickness and ages and applies methods to evaluate heterogeneity in the thermal state, chemical composition and thickness of the lithosphere.
Between 2005 and 2018, Artemieva raised over €3 million in funding through open peer-review calls from the Danish Research Council (DFF and FNU), Carlsbergfondet (Denmark), the University of Copenhagen (the Freja and the PhD grants), and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (the Lehmann Grant).

## Awards and honours

Artemieva was elected a member of Academia Europaea in 2007 and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2014. She was elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 2012. In 2021, Artemieva was awarded the Augustus Love Medal of the European Geosciences Union. She is included in the AcademiaNet Expert Database for Outstanding Women in Academia by nomination from the Danish Research Council. She was included in the 2020–2022 Stanford lists of the "World 2% most influential scientists".
* 2000 Elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
* 2007 Elected to the Academia Europaea
* 2012 Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America
* 2014 Elected to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
* 2018 Elected to the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences
* 2021 Awarded the Augustus Love Medal of the European Geosciences Union

## Career

From 1999–2001, Artemieva was an Associate Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, followed by her work at the EOST of Strasbourg University in 2002. From 2003 to 2004, she worked as a Senior Researcher at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, where she had been an annual visitor for 3–4 months since 1995. In 2005, Artemieva obtained the position of Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, funded by research grants from Carlsbergfondet, Denmark in 2005–2006 and 2007–2009.
In 2010, Artemieva was one of six winners of the Freja Grant from the University of Copenhagen in Natural Sciences. In 2013, she won the position of Professor of Geophysics at the University of Copenhagen. She successfully led funding bids in 2011–2013 and 2014–2018 for "Large research grants" from the Danish national funding agencies (Independent Research Fund Denmark - Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond/ DFF). On 29 July 2019, Artemieva was dismissed by the University of Copenhagen, with the management allegedly claiming that she had repeatedly failed to fulfill administrative and teaching duties; some geoscientists disagreed with the dismissal.
In 2019–2020, Artemieva was a visiting professor at Stanford University; her sabbatical stay funded by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, she moved to the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research (Kiel, Germany). In 2022, Artemieva was invited by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences as a Distinguished Professor to the SinoProbe National Laboratory, following her affiliation since 2019 as a Distinguished Professor with the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan).

### Leadership positions

Artemieva was the Science Coordinator and Executive Board member of the European Science Foundation (EGU) EUROPROBE program (1999–2001), which involved approximately two thousand scientists from across Europe. Within the European Geosciences Union, she served on the EGU Council and EGU Program Committee in 2013–2017 as Geodynamics Division President. She has been a member of the EGU Arthur Holmes and Augustus Love medal committees of the European Geosciences Union and a referee for the Crafoord Prize of the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Geodynamics (since 2016) and an associated editor in Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) since 2014. She previously served as associated editor in Tectonophysics (2006–2020) and topical editor of the EGU journal Solid Earth (2010–2016).
In 2022, Artemieva was elected President of the European Geosciences Union and served as Vice-President for one year after the election. She was President of the European Geosciences Union from 2023 to 2024. In May 2024, following a resolution from the volunteer council, she was removed as President of the EGU by a large majority vote for breaking the EGU’s Code of Conduct, specifically for breaking confidentiality by revealing the name of a reporting individual.
Artemieva is a Task Force leader in the International Lithosphere Program (2019–2024), Program Officer of the International Heat Flow Commission (2019–2024), chairperson of the Danish National Committee for Lithosphere Research (since 2016), a Danish Executive Committee Member of the International Science Council (2018), and the Danish co-representative of EU "European Plate Observing System" (EPOS) (2008).
She has participated in several large-scale international and U.S. scientific programs, such as SCEC, EarthScope and CIDER (Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research).