Arwen Fedora Deuss (born 1975) is a Dutch geophysicist who uses global seismology to study the Internal structure of Earth in its mantle and core, including the discovery that two large low-shear-velocity provinces ("supercontinents") buried deep within the lower mantle are hotter and older than previously thought. She is a professor in the Faculty of Geosciences and Department of Earth Sciences at Utrecht University, where she holds the title of professor of structure and composition of Earth’s deep interior.
Education and career
Deuss received a Drs. degree (the equivalent of a combined bachelor's and master's degree) in earth sciences from Utrecht University in 1998. She continued at the University of Oxford, where she completed a doctorate (D.Phil.) in 2002.
She worked as a lecturer and reader at the University of Cambridge, and as a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, before returning to Utrecht University in 2014. She was named as a full professor at Utrecht in 2017.
