Geoffrey David Price - Curriculum Vitae#

Current Post: Vice-Provost for Research

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 specialisation in Mineralogy and Petrology. Proceeded in 1981 to the degree of Master of Arts, University of Cambridge.

POSITIONS HELD

• Oct 2007- Vice-Provost for Research, UCL.
• Sept 2006 – Sept 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.
• Sept 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 from 1991 until Sept 2006).
• 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.
• Sept 1981 - 83. Natural Environment Research Council Research Fellow, working in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.
• 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.
• 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, 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

• Elected Member of the Academia Europaea
• Fellow and Past-President of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Fellow of the Geological Society of London
• Elected Fellow of the Mineralogical Socity of America
• Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

• 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 RAE Sub-Panel 17 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 and Chair of the Curriculum Committee, 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 Member of the Dana Medal Committee of the Min Soc of America.
• 2001-8 Member of the High Performance Computing Strategy Board of the Research Councils (RCUK).
• 2000 - 2003 Member of the ISIS Facility Access Panel for CCLRC.
• 2000 - 2003 Member of the HPC(X) Management Board (EPSRC).
• 1999 - 2004 Associate Editor “JGR-Solid Earth”.
• 1998 - 2002 Secretary of the International Mineralogical Association's Commission on the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.
• 1996- 1998 Member of the NIREX Geology Review Panel
• 1996- Member of the Editorial Board of “Physics and Chemistry of Minerals”
• 1996 Member of the Review group for the Geophysical Laboratory, Washington DC
• 1995- 2001Chair of the Medals Committee of the European Mineralogical Union
• 1994- 1997 Member of NERC's Earth Science and Technology Board.
• 1993- 1996 Member of the SERC's CCP5 committee for the modelling of ionic systems.
• 1992- 1996 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- 1996 Vice President of the European Mineralogical Union.
• 1991- 1994 Member of the International Programme Committee for the 1994 IMA General Meeting, Pisa.
• 1989- 1992 Member of the NERC Geological Sciences Research Grants and Training Awards Committee.
• 1989- 1993 Co-convenor of the Steering Committee of the University College London Centre for Materials Research.
• 1987- 1990 Committee member of the Physical Crystallography Group of the British Crystallographic Association.
• 1986- 1990 Chairman of the International Mineralogical Association's Commission on the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.
• 1986- 1992 Officer (Publications Manager) of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1985- 1986 Council member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

AWARDS, RECOGNITION, etc

• 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 Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
• 2005 Listed in Who’s Who.
• 2003 Named one of the Top 10 British Geologists - Independent on Sunday (London), August 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 Awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship
• 1997 Elected a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America in recognition of significant contributions to the fields of mineralogy, petrology and crystallography.
• 1990 –97 Visiting Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum, London.
• 1990 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.

RESEARCH GRANTS

• 1983 Research Fellowship from the Royal Society £66,500
• 1985 Grant from ICI for zeolite research £30,000
• 1985 Guest Research Fellowship grant from the Royal Society (for Prof DJ Weidner) £ 6,300
• 1986 Research grant GR3/5993 from the NERC to study perovskite rheology £44,802
• 1987 Research grant GR3/6358 from the NERC to study the lattice dynamics of mantle-forming minerals £62,662
• 1987 Royal Society equipment grant £ 3,600
• 1988 Research grant GR3/6970 from the NERC to study computer models of silicates (with CRA Catlow & SC Parker) £139,859
• 1988 ICI research grant to study zeolite stability £61,000
• 1988 University of London Court for high pressure research. £50,000
• 1988 UCG Earth Science Equipment (FTIR spectrometer) £160,000
• 1989 EEC twinning grant (with Dr M Madon, Paris) ecu176,000
• 1989 Research grant GST/02/435 from the NERC to study high pressure systems (with Drs Jones, Ross and Angel) £ 3,750
• 1990 Guest Research Fellowship grant from the Royal Society (to allow visit of Dr M Matsui, Japan) £ 8,500
• 1990 SERC Computer Science Initiative grant (with CRA Catlow and SL Price) £235,000
• 1991 NERC research grant GR3/6970 supplement to studycomputer models of silicates (with CRA Catlow & SC Parker) £259,289
• 1991 Birkbeck College grant for High P research (with RJ Angel) £8,000
• 1991 British Council Alliance grant £1,000
• 1992 NERC grant for advanced computing (with CRA Catlow) £57,200
• 1993 NERC grant GR3/8600 on rheology of perovskites £112,357
• 1993 EC Human Mobility grant (with Dr V Saunders et al) ecu22,000
• 1993 NERC grant GR3/8816 on melting and the thermal structure of the Earth £148,496
• 1993 SERC grant GR/J31865 Computational studies of polar and molecular solids (with Prof CRA Catlow and Dr SL Price) £233,555
• 1994 NERC grant GR3/9191 Experimental and modelling approach to diffusion (with Dr S Elphick) £251,286
• 1994 NERC grant GST/02/1002 HPC Computational Mineral Physics £77,791
• 1996 NERC grant GST/02/1454 Ab initio study of Fe (with Prof M Gillan) £89,292
• 1996 NERC grant GR3/R9627 Computer modelling of hydrothermal synthesis of minerals (ROPA) (with Prof CRA Catlow) £85,140
• 1998 NERC grant GR3/11779 Computer modelling of grain boundary properties and behaviour in rock forming minerals (with SC Parker & CRA Catlow) £111,128
• 1998 NERC grant GR3/12083 Ab initio study of the free energies and equations of state of liquid and crystalline alloys of Fe at core P and T (with Prof. M. Gillan) £142,822
• 1998 JREI grant JR98UCGI Advanced computation for Quantum Studies (with Prof M Gillan) £532,325
• 1998 NERC grant GR9/03550 High performance computing for mineral physics (with J Brodholt) for 4 years access to Cray T3E at CSAR (worth £270,000 per year in cpu time). £1,080,000
• 2002 NERC grant NER/T/S/2001/00855 Environment from the Molecular Level: An e-science project for modelling the atomistic processes involved in environmental issues (with Dr Martin Dove et al. £1,657,644
• 2002 NERC grant NER/O/S/2001/01262 The deep Earth System (with J Brodholt et al) £253,000
• 2005 NERC grant NE/C515704/1 & NE/C515698/1 E-minerals: application of GRID enabled science to understand the Environment from the molecular level(with Prof Martin Dove, Brodholt et al) £1,335,601
• 2005 EPSRC grant EP/C534360/1 First-principles thermodynamics of metals under extreme conditions. (with Prof. M Gillan and Dr D Alfe) £184,559
• 2005 NERC grant NE/C519662/1 The structure and anisotropy of the earth’s core (with Vocadlo and Brodholt). £163,561

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

G.David Price has presented invited papers, organised symposia or chaired sessions at the following international meetings:

• 1981 IUCr, Ottawa
• 1982 13th IMA, Varna, Bulgaria
• 1985 EUG III, Strasbourg
• 1985 European Meeting on Modulated structures, Bad Honnef, West Germany.
• 1986 14th IMA, Stanford, USA
• 1987 CCP5 Computer simulations meeting, UMIST
• 1987 EUG IV, Strasbourg
• 1987 Competing interactions and microstructures, Los Alamos
• 1987 NATO ASI Thermodynamics of Minerals, Cambridge
• 1988 Royal Society Discussion Meeting: Seismic tomography & mantle circulation
• 1988 European geotraverse workshop, Utrecht
• 1989 EUG V, Strasbourg
• 1989 28th IGC, Washington
• 1989 2nd Mineralogical Society Winter Conference, UCL
• 1990 IUCr, Bordeaux
• 1991 IUGG, Vienna
• 1992 Quo Vadis Meeting, UK Geol Soc
• 1992 4th Int Symp of Expt Min and Pet, Claremont-Ferrand
• 1993 Discourse Lecturer at the Royal Institution
• 1993 EUG VII, speaker and symposium convenor
• 1994 EMPG-V symposium at UCL
• 1994 Goldsmidt Conference, Edinburgh
• 1994 IMA meeting at Pisa
• 1996 BCA Cambridge
• 1998 Plenary Lecturer at the Toronto IMA
• 1998 Speaker at NATO ASI “Microscopic processes in minerals”, Lucca, Italy
• 1999 Discourse Lecture at the Royal Institution
• 1999 Session convenor and speaker at EUG 10
• 1999 Speaker and session chair IUCr, Glasgow
• 1999 Invited Speaker at ESF School on the "Deep Earth", Aquafredda, Italy
• 2000 Invited Speaker at the SEDI 2000 meeting, Exeter
• 2001 Invited speaker at ESF meeting on “Ultra-High Pressure Physics”, Corsica
• 2001 Organiser of CECAM/ESF meeting on “Ab Initio Calculations in Geophysics”, Lyon
• 2001 Invited speaker at Gordon Conference on “Earth’s Deep Interior”, Mt Holyoake College
• 2001 Invited speaker at the Royal Society Discussion Meeting “New science from high performance computing”, London.
• 2002 Invited speaker, Dept Geological Sciences, Princeton Univ, NJ.
• 2002 Session convenor and speaker at IMA Edinburgh
• 2002 Invited Speaker and Session Chair, Fall AGU, San Francisco.
• 2003 Invited speaker Vening Meinesz Research School Integrated Geodynamics Symposium, Univ Utrecht.
• 2003 Invited speaker, Spring Meeting American Physical Society, Austin Texas.
• 2003 Keynote Speaker, Union Symposium “The State of the Planet”, IUGG Sapporo Japan
• 2003 Invited speaker, Department Crystallography, ETH Zurich.
• 2005 Physics and Chemistry of Minerals Programme Group Member IASPEI Assembly (Chile)
• 2005 Organiser of the William Smith Meeting of the Geol Soc. London on “The Deep Earth”
• 2006 Neel Medal Lecturer, EGS, Vienna
• 2006 Member of the International Advisory Committee 44th EHPRG, Prague.
• 2006 Invited speaker and session convener IMA2006-Kobe
• 2009 Keynote Speaker. Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland

Administrative commitments at UCL have prevented me accepting the many recent invitations to speak at meetings around the world.