Robert van der Hilst named new department head.
Robert van der Hilst named new department head.
Mon December 12th, 2011
School of Science in MIT News
Robert van der Hilst, the Schlumberger Professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), has been named the new head of EAPS, effective Jan. 1, 2012.
He succeeds Maria Zuber, the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, who has served as the department head for the last eight years.