Claudio Vita-Finzi

Claudio Vita-Finzi, FBA, FRGS (born 21 November 1936) is an Australian-British geologist and academic.

[1][2] His research is interdisciplinary, and involves the application of tectonics and planetary science on landscape change: this has led to him working alongside archaeologists and climatologists among others.

[2][3] He studied at St John's College, Cambridge.

[4] Vita-Finzi is the recipient of two medals from the Royal Geographical Society: the Back Award in 1971, and the Busk Medal in 2012 "for fieldwork on Mediterranean landscape change".

[5][3] In 1994, he was awarded the G. K. Warren Prize by the United States National Academy of Sciences "for his distinguished contributions to fluvial morphology in relation to climate, tectonic activity, and human history (archaeological geology), on the basis of field investigations on several continents".