Earth Sciences - Marine palynology & palaeoceanography
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Appy Sluijs (1980) is the Professor of Paleoceanography at the Earth Sciences Department and co-chair of the research group Marine Palynology and Paleoceanography, at Utrecht University. Sluijs studied biology and biogeology in Utrecht and at the University of California at Santa Cruz, USA. In 2006 he obtained his Ph.D. cum laude in Utrecht. Subsequently he received a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO), and was appointed to a tenure Assistant Professor position in January 2010. In 2010, he received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. He was appointed as full professor in May 2014. His group carries out research on the full range of marine sciences, in close collaboration with researchers in Utrecht, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and a large international suite of institutes.
earth sciences