Keith O'Nions#
Membership Number: | 843 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 1990 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/our-board |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Chairman of the Cambridge Enterprise Board
- Jan 2010 – August 2014 President & Rector, Imperial College London
- July 2008 – Dec 2009 Director, Security Sciences and Technology Institute, Imperial College London
- Jan 2004 - April 2008 Director-General Science and Innovation, Dept. for Innovation and Universities and Skills
- Jan 2000 - July 2004 Chief Scientific Advisor, UK Ministry of Defence
- Sep. 1995 - Dec 1999 Head of Earth Sciences and Professor of Physics and Chemistry Minerals, Oxford
- Sep.1979 - Aug 1995 Royal Society Research Professor, Cambridge
- July 1975 - Aug1979 Professor of Geochemistry, Columbia, New York
- Jan 1971 - June 1975 Lecturer in Geochemistry, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Isotope geochemistry
- Mass spectrometry
Honours and Awards
- Professional
- 1979 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- 1980 Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 1983 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1990 Member of Academia Europaea
- 1997 Geochemistry Fellow (Joint Geochem. Soc. /Eur. Assoc. Geochem.)
- 1998 Honorary Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences
- 1997 Fellow of the Institute of Physics
- 2001 Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy
- 2005 Fellow Royal Academy of Engineering (Honorary)
- Honours
- 1999 Knight Bachelor-Services to Earth Science (Birthday Honours)
- 2000 Honorary Fellow, University of Cardiff
- 2004 Honorary Doctor of Science, Herriot-Watt University
- 2005 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Glasgow
- 2005 Honorary Doctor of Science, Royal Holloway
- 2005 Docteur Honoris Causa, University of Paris
- 2006 Honorary Doctor of Science, Loughborough University
- 2007 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Alberta
- 2007 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Edinburgh
- 2007 Honorary Doctor of Science, Abertay University
- 2009 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Nottingham
- 2010 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Birmingham
- Awards
- 1979 J.B. Macelwane Award (American Geophysical Union)
- 1983 Bigsby Medal (Geological Society of London)
- 1985 Hallimond Lecturer (Mineralogical Society)
- 1986 UK-Canada Rutherford Lecturer (Royal Society)
- 1986 William Smith Lecturer (Geological Society of London)
- 1990 Ingerson Lecturer (Geological Society of America)
- 1995 Arthur Holmes Medal (European Union of Geosciences)
- 1995 Lyell Medal (Geological Society of London)
- 1998 Jaeger-Hales Lecturer, Australian National University
- 2001 Urey Medal (European Association Geochemistry)
- 2004 Bruce Preller Prize Lecturer, Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1999 Knighthood for services to Earth Sciences in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours