Donald Bruce Dingwell#

Biography#

Born and raised in Canada, Don Dingwell moved to Germany in 1987. From 2000-2024 he was the Chair in Mineralogy and Petrology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. There he chaired the newly-founded Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences for over 2 decades.

Dingwell's research background is in the earth sciences. He has published ca. 600 papers on geomaterials, magmas and volcanism. His approach is fundamentally experimental and materials-based.

He has received numerous scientific awards, medals and prizes, and holds several honorary degrees, fellowships, and academy memberships as well as the national orders of Germany and Canada.

He has been President of the European Geoscience Union (EGU) and the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth´s Interior (IAVCEI), as well as the 3rd and last Secretary-General of the European Research Council.

Prof. Dingwell was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2007 as member of the Earth and Cosmic Sciences section and has been involved in its activities and structures for over a decade.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Geology/Geophysics (B.Sc. Honours: 1980), Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, Dissertation: "Geology, Geochemistry and Geophysics of the Port Aux Basques Granite", Profs. D.F. Strong a. H. Miller

Doctor of Philisophy - Geology (Ph.D: 1984), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Dissertation: "Investigation of the role of fluorine in silicate melts: implication for igneous petrogenesis."; Prof. C.M. Scarfe

Habilitation in Geochemistry (Dr. rer. nat. Habil. 1992); University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany Dissertation: "Relaxation and Rheology in Silicate Melts"