DONEGAL Scientist Professor Derek Vance has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.
Professor Vance was one of eighty scientists worldwide who were recently elected to the Royal Society in recognition of being leaders in their field of research.
Born and raised in Convoy, Derek is the son of the late Harry and Maud Vance.
He was educated at the Royal and Prior Comprehensive School in Raphoe, Trinity College in Dublin and received his Ph.D. in Geochemistry from the University of Cambridge.
Derek is the third current Donegal scientist to be elected to the society, joining Professor Angelos Michaelides from Greencastle and Nobel laureate Professor William Campbell from Ramelton.
Currently, Professor Vance is group Chair in the Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zürich.
He focuses on research programs to understand the evolution of the earth’s surface through earth geochemistry history.
Past Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society have included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking.
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