!!Marian Barbara Holness - Curriculum Vitae
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__EDUCATION__
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*1983 - 1986 Clare College, Cambridge - Natural Science B.A. with First Class Honours 1986 \\
*1986 - 1987 University of Chicago Exchange Scholarship\\
*1988 - 1990 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Ph.D. awarded 1991. "Experimental and Petrological Studies of Textural Equilibration and Fluid Flow in Metacarbonate Rocks: the Beinn an Dubhaich Aureole, Skye"
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__CAREER TO DATE__
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*October 2013 - present – Professor of Petrology, University of Cambridge\\
*October 2006 - September 2013 Reader in Petrogenesis, University of Cambridge \\
*October 2002 - September 2006 Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge \\
*October 2000 - September 2002 Lecturer, University of Cambridge\\
*October 2000 - elected Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge\\
*October 1997 - October 2000 Assistant Lecturer, University of Cambridge\\
*January 1994 - October 1997 Royal Society University Research Fellow, Edinburgh\\
*March 1991 - December 1993 Post-doctoral research assistant in Edinburgh on NERC grant GR3/7829 "Experimental and geochemical constraints on grain-boundary fluid flow during crustal metamorphism". Principal investigators: Colin Graham and Ben Harte
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__AWARDS and PRIZES__
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*2020 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society\\
*2020 Visiting Professorship, University of Orléans (postponed due to Covid-19)\\
*2019 Elected Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America\\
*2019 Murchison Medal, Geological Society of London\\
*2008 Cambridge University Pilkington Prize for Teaching\\
*2008 Mineralogical Society Distinguished Lecturer\\
*2007 VMSG award, Geological Society of London\\
*1996 Murchison Fund, Geological Society of London\\
*1993 Royal Society University Research Fellowship\\
*1986 Horne Prize, Clare College, University of Cambridge\\
*1986 Cambridge-Chicago Exchange scholarship\\
*1985 Foundation Scholarship, Clare College, University of Cambridge\\
*1985 Wiltshire Prize, University of Cambridge
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__POSITIONS HELD, EXTERNAL:__
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*Member of the Scholarships Committee: Commission of the Royal Exhibition of 1851, 2025 - present \\
*Member of Committee for awarding Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships, 2024 - present \\
*Vice-President of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2024 - present \\
*Chair of the Awards & Medals Committee, EGU, 2024 - present \\
*Deputy President of GMPV Division of EGU, 2023 - 2024\\
*President of GMPV Division of EGU, 2019 - 2023\\
*Committee member Mineralogical Society of America, 2021 - 2024\\
*Commissioning Editor, Journal of Petrology (with responsibility for Perspectives in Petrology), 2016 - 2020\\
*Member of grant panel, European Research Council, 2015 - 2019\\
*External member, Review Panel for the University of Cape Town Dept. of Geosciences, 2015\\
*Member, NERC Peer Review College, 2009 - present \\
*Member, Metamorphic Studies Group committee, 2004 - 2012\\
*Member, Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group committee, 2007 - 2010
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__RECENTLY AWARDED GRANTS__ \\
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Marie Sklodowska-Curie ECH2020 Fellowship (£142,213) The formation and evolution of monomineralic oxide layers. April 2016 – August 2019.\\
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NERC grant (NE/N009894/1) (£454,523) Regime change: convection and crystallization of magma. With Dr. J Neufeld (Cambridge). April 2016 – April 2021\\
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Science Foundation Ireland, Geological Survey of Ireland (€621,302) Developing a process-based understanding of platinum group element mineralisation: a natural laboratory in Ireland (Critical-Ireland. Co-I, with Michael Stock (Trinity College, Dublin), Prof. Christian Huber (Brown) and Dr. Mark Cooper (Geological Survey of Northern Ireland). December 2021 – November 2025.\\
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Career Support Fund (£10,000). University of Cambridge. Awarded January 2024.\\
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Daphne Jackson Memorial Fellowships Trust (£134,226). Sponsored by the Royal Society. Supervising the fellowship held by Dr Luke Hepworth. The collapse of mafic magma chambers: new insights from the Rum Central Intrusion, NW Scotland. November 2024 – October 2027.\\
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