Eglinton Timothy Ian
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Timothy Eglinton has been Professor of Biogeoscience within the Geological Institute at ETH Zurich since July 2010. Tim Eglinton obtained his Bachelor's degree from Plymouth Polytechnic in 1982 and then completed Masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Newcastle in 1983 and 1988, respectively. He then undertook postdoctoral research at Delft Technical University and Oslo University before joining the Scientific Staff in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry (MC&G) at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in 1990. Tim Eglinton remained at WHOI until 2010 as an Assistant, Associate and Senior Scientist, and served as the Chair of the MC&G Department between 2007 and 2010.
Research Interest
Research is focussed on understanding of the processes that govern the Earth's carbon cycle from the molecular level to the global scale, and on the legacy of past biological activity and environmental conditions contained in organic signatures preserved in the geologic record
