Irina Artemieva is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She was awarded an MS in Physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow and a Dr Science (Dr habil.) degree from the University of Copenhagen. Professor Artemieva has worked as a researcher at the Russian/USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, at the Universities of Uppsala (Sweden) and Strasbourg (France), and at the United States Geological Survey in California. She was Science Co-ordinator of the European Science Foundation/International Lithosphere Program EUROPROBE study 1999 2001. She is also a member of the Natural Sciences Research Councils in Ireland and Sweden and the Academia Europaea, and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London.