Prof. G. David Price

Vice-Provost (Research)

and Professor of Mineral Physics

CURRICULUM VITAE 

DEGREES

 Jan. 1981. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. Thesis entitled 'Aspects of Transformation Behaviour in Olivine, Pyroxenes and Titanomagnetites'.

 June 1977. Bachelor of Arts, Clare College, University of Cambridge. 1st Class Honours in both Parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos. Part 2 specialization in Mineralogy and Petrology. Proceeded in 1981 to the degree of Master of Arts, University of Cambridge.

POSITIONS HELD

 Oct 2007- Vice-Provost (Research), UCL

 

 Sept 2006 – Oct 2007 Executive Dean, Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UCL

 

 June 2004 – Sept 2005 Head of Department, Dept Earth Sciences, UCL and Director of the UCL/Birkbeck Research School of Earth Sciences.

 

 Sept 2003 – Sept 2006 Vice Dean (Research), Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UCL.

 Oct 1992 – Sept 2002 Head of Department, Dept Geological Sciences, UCL and Director of the UCL/Birkbeck Research School of Geological and Geophysical Sciences.

 Jan 1991 - Professor of Mineral Physics, tenable jointly at University College London and Birkbeck College.

   Oct 1987 - 90 University of London Reader in Mineral Physics, tenable jointly at University College London and Birkbeck College.

   Sept 1983 - 87. Royal Society 1983 University Research Fellow in the Department of Geological Sciences, University College London, researching into the behaviour and properties of mantle-forming minerals.

   Sept 1981 - 83. Natural Environment Research Council Research Fellow, working in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, researching into the nature and behaviour of the high density polymorphs of magnesium silicates, and their influence upon the properties of the transition zone of the mantle.

   Sept 1980-Aug 1981. Research Associate at the Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, working with Prof. J.V. Smith, F.R.S. on the structure and chemistry of zeolites, as determined by X-ray crystallography.

   Oct 1977 - 80. Natural Environment Research Council Student (by competition), researching into the subsolidus behaviour of iron-titanium oxides, having nominated Dr J.D.C. McConnell F.R.S., of the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge, as supervisor.

  Jan 1974 - Aug 1974. Assistant Scientific Officer at the National Physical Laboratory (Teddington, Middx), researching into dispersive Fourier transform spectroscopy.

MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS

 Member of the Academia Europaea

 Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland

 Fellow of the Geological Society

 Fellow of the Mineralogical Socity of America

 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

OTHER SCIENTIFIC APPOINTMENTS  

 2010-     Member of Elsevier's Academic Executive Advisory Board

 

 2010-     Chair of the REF2014 Sub-Panel UoA 7: Earth and Environmental Sciences

 

 2010-     Co-convenor of the committee of “Vice-Rectors” of Research of the League of European Research Universities

 

 2010-     Member of the Council and Trustee of the Royal Institution.

 

 2010-     Chair of Governors of the UCL-Academy School, Camden.

 

 2009      Assessor for the Crafoord Prize Nomination Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

 

 2006-7    Scientific Consultant for BBC 5-part series “Earth: The Power of the Planet”.

 

 2005-7    Member of the NERC peer review college.

 

 2005-7    Editor of “Earth and Planetary Science Letters

 

 2005-8    Member of the UK Higher Education Funding bodies Research Assessment Panel for Earth Sciences.

 

 2004-6    President of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

 

 2004-8    Member of the Awards Committee of the Geological Society of London.

 

 2003-9    Member of the Governing Body, La Sainte Union Secondary School, Highgate.

 

 2003-6    Member of Council, University College London.

 

 2003-7   Member of the (HECToR) Science Board, EPSRC.

 

 2003-7    Member of the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory Committee of the Royal Institution.

 

  2002-6   Memeber of the Dana Medal Committee of the Min Soc of America.

 

  2001-8   Memeber of the High End Computing Strategy Committee of the Research Councils.     

  2000-2   Member of the HCPX Procurement Management Board.

  1999-04 Associate Editor JGR-Solid Earth.

  1998-02 Secretary of the International Mineralogical Association's Commission on the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.

  1996-98 Member of the NIREX Geology Review Panel

  1996     Member of the Review group for the Geophysical Laboratory, Washington DC

  1994-97 Member of NERC's Earth Science and Technology Board.

  1993-96 Member of the SERC's CCP5 committee for the modelling of ionic systems.

  1992-96 Member of the IASPEI commission on the physical properties of materials of the Earth's interior.

  1992-    Member of the editorial board of "Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors".

  1992-96 Vice President of the European Mineralogical Union.

  1991-94 Member of the International Programme Committee for the 1994 IMA General Meeting, Pisa.

  1989-92 Member of the NERC Geological Sciences Research Grants and Training Awards Committee.

  1989-93 Co-convenor of the Steering Committee of the University College London Centre for Materials Research.

  1987-90 Committee member of the Physical Crystallography Group of the British Crystallographic Association.

  1986-90 Chairman of the International Mineralogical Association's Commission on the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.

  1986-92 Officer (Publications Manager) of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

  1985-86 Council member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

 AWARDS

  2006     Awarded the Louis Néel Medal of the European Geosciences Union for “establishing the importance of computational mineral physics in Earth sciences and for outstanding contributions to the physics of the Earth's core."

 

  2005     Awarded Fellowship of the American Geophysical Union

                       

  2005     Listed in Who’s Who.

 

  2003     Named one of the Top 10 British Geologists - Independent on Sunday (London), Aug 10, 2003, Section: Business; Pg. 8

  2002     Awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London.

   2000    Elected Member of the Academia Europaea

   1999    Awarded the Schlumberger Medal of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

 1997-98 Leverhulme Research Fellow

 1997      Elected a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America in recognition of significant contributions to the fields of mineralogy, petrology and crystallography.

 1990-96 Visiting Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum, London.

  1990-91 MacRoberts Lecturer at the Royal Institution

  1981-83 Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.

  1980-81 Senior Research Scholar of the Fulbright-Hayes programme.

  1977     Awarded Clare College Horne Prize.

  1976     Awarded Clare College Foundation Scholarship.

  1975     Awarded Clare College Scholarship.

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