Prof. em. Dr. Daniel Bernoulli

From 1986 to 2000 Daniel Bernoulli was Full Professor of Geology at the Institute of Geology at the ETH and the University of Zurich. He retired on October 1st, 2000. He was the director of projects on the comparison of the continental margins of today's oceans with those of Alpine regions, the development of carbonate platforms and regional geological problems in the Mediterranean region and the Alps.

Prof. Bernoulli was born on June 11, 1936 and is from Basel. He studied geology at the University of Basel, where he received his doctorate in 1963. From 1963 to 1967 he was employed as a geologist at Shell International Oil Co., Planning Division, Holland, where he was responsible for field work related to oil exploration in the Adriatic Sea. From 1967 to 1986 he assumed a post at the Geological Institute of the University of Basel, first as an assistant, then as a lecturer and in 1973 as a Professor of Geology. Between 1972 and 1993 he was also a guest professor at the Universities of Lausanne, Krakow, Parma and Bologna. Between 1970 and 1979 he was influential in the International Deep Sea Drilling Project. In 1978 he received the Science Award from the city of Basel.

In his research, Prof. Bernoulli focused on the sedimentology and sequence strategraphy of carbonate sediments and rocks, the relation between sedimentation and tectonics, the geological development of continental margins, regional and marine geology in the Alpine region, the Mediterranean region and the Atlantic Ocean.