Jarmila Turnovsky

Jarmila Turnovsky was born in England and is the daughter of a Czech World War II RAF veteran, a Holocaust survivor, who escaped from his homeland to Britain from Czechoslovakia after the communist takeover. As a small child, she immigrated with both Czech parents to Jamaica. After her initial undergraduate degree from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, she studied at Imperial College, London. She later earned her doctorate in earthquake seismology from the University of Stuttgart in...See more

Jarmila Turnovsky was born in England and is the daughter of a Czech World War II RAF veteran, a Holocaust survivor, who escaped from his homeland to Britain from Czechoslovakia after the communist takeover. As a small child, she immigrated with both Czech parents to Jamaica. After her initial undergraduate degree from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, she studied at Imperial College, London. She later earned her doctorate in earthquake seismology from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Jarmila worked in her field in Jamaica and Germany. Now in retirement, she and her husband spend their time in Germany, the USA, and Jamaica. Jarmila enjoys being on or in the water, cooking, tennis, and playing bridge. She is fluent in English and German and speaks Czech. See less