Honorary membership

Thomas Hofmann, Head of the Library, Publishing and Archive Department, was made an honorary member of the Austrian Geological Society (ÖGG) on 13 March 2025 during the General Assembly of the society held at GeoSphere Austria (Location Neulinggasse).

This honoured his many years of commitment to the communication of geoscientific content, as well as the detailed processing of geoscientific pre- and posthumous estates and special print collections by the GeoSphere Austria library team, which he has headed since 2008.

Among other things, all PANGEO conferences organised by the ÖGG every two years since 2002 are freely available in the GeoSphere Austria library catalogue with abstract volumes and excursion guides based on more than 2,300 individual contributions (abstracts) in the sense of OPEN ACCESS.

In his two blogs, ‘Wissenschaftsgeschichte[n]’ (since 2019) and ‘Erlesenes Wissen’ (since 2024), Hofmann regularly presents scientific topics with a focus on the geosciences.

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