Prof. G. David Price
Vice-Provost (Research)
and Professor of Mineral
Physics
Jan. 1981. Doctor of
Philosophy,
June 1977. Bachelor of Arts,
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
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
Oct 1987 - 90
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,
Sept 1980-Aug 1981. Research Associate at the
Department of the Geophysical Sciences,
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,
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
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
2009 Assessor for the Crafoord Prize Nomination Committee of the
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
2004-8 Member of
the Awards Committee of the Geological Society of
2003-9 Member of
the Governing Body, La
2003-6 Member of
Council,
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
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,
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
1991-94 Member of the
International Programme Committee for the 1994 IMA General Meeting,
1989-92 Member of the
NERC Geological Sciences Research Grants and Training Awards Committee.
1989-93 Co-convenor of
the Steering Committee of the
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
1985-86 Council member
of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and
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
2005
Listed in Who’s Who.
2003
Named one of the Top 10 British
Geologists - Independent on Sunday (
2002
Awarded the Murchison Medal of the
Geological Society of
2000 Elected Member of the Academia Europaea
1999
Awarded the Schlumberger Medal of the
Mineralogical Society of
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
1990-91 MacRoberts Lecturer
at the Royal Institution
1981-83 Research Fellow
at
1980-81 Senior Research
Scholar of the Fulbright-Hayes programme.
1977 Awarded
1976 Awarded
1975 Awarded