Donald B. Dingwell#
| Membership Number: | 2449 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2007 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011-2013 3rd Secretary General - European Research Council
- 2008-2011 Appointed Research Professor for Experimental Volcanology (LMUExcellent program of the Bundesexzellentinitiative)
- 2004-2005 Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences, LMU Munich
- 2002-present founding Director - Department for Earth and Enviromental Sciences - University of Munich
- 2000-present Chair of Mineralogy and Petrology and Head of the Institute of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, University of Munich
- 1992 Dr. rer.nat.habil. Geochemistry, University of Bayreuth
- 1991-2000 Scientific Manager (geschäftsführender Mitarbeiter), Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Experimentelle Geochemie und Geophysik (Bayerisches Geoinstitut), Uni Bayreuth
- 1987-1991 Deputy Director (wiss. Assistent) - Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Experimentelle Geochemie und Geophysik (Bayerisches Geoinstitut), Universität Bayreuth
- 1986-1987 Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) - Earth and Planetary Sciences - University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- 1984-1986 Carnegie Postdoctoral fellow - Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., USA
- 1980-1984 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council 1967 Science Scholar - The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- 1980 Senior Field Assistant - Department of Mines and Energy, Newfoundland
- 1979 Explorationist - Esso Resources Offshore Drilling Office, St. John's, Newfoundland
- 1978 Explorationist - Esso Resources Frontier Office, Calgary, Alberta
- 1977 Operator/Technician, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Corner Brook, Newfoundland
- 1976 Announcer/Operator, CBC, Corner Brook, Newfoundland
Fields of Scholarship
- Experimental geosciences
- Volcanic propcesses
- Mineralogy, petrology
- Geochemistry
Honours and Awards
- Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences - LEOPOLDINA (2017)
- GUTENBERG Research Fellow (2017-2021) University of Mainz
- Arthur DAY Medal – Geological Society of America (2016)
- elected President of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earths Interior (IAVCEI)(2015-2019)
- American Geophysical Union Development Board (2015-)
- Canada First Research Excellence Fund Selection Board (2015-2016)
- PEACOCK Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada (2015)
- Appointed to the Executive Committee of the Deep Carbon Observatory (2014)
- Appointed to the Board of the Academia Europaea (2014-2016)
- Capital Science Evening Lecture (Washington D.C.) (2014)
- Otto SCHOTT Research Award – Ernst-Abbe-Fonds (2014)
- Elected to the German National Academy of Science and Engineering – ACATECH (2013)
- Norman Levi BOWEN Award of the American Geophysical Union (2013)
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany - Bundesverdienstkreuz (2013)
- D.Sc. (honoris causa) – bestowed by University College London (2012)
- D.Sc. (honoris causa) – bestowed by the University of Alberta, CA (2012)
- AAAS Topical Lecturer – Vancouver, CA (2012)
- Named 3rd Secretary General of the European Research Council (2011)
- Elected to the Royal Society of Canada (2010)
- Elected President of the European Geosciences Union (2011-2013)
- Senior Associate – Rachel Carson Center – LMU (2010-)
- European Research Council Advanced Researcher Award (2010-2011, 2014-2017*) (*suspended 9/2011-12/2013 for term as Secretary General of the ERC)
- Elected as Union Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2009)
- Named as founding member of the Center for Advanced Studies – LMU (2008-)
- Chair of the Earth and Cosmic Sciences section of the Academia Europaea (2008-)
- Distinguished Lecturer of the Mineralogical Society of America (2008/09)
- Bunsen Medal of the European Geoscience Union (2008)
- ISI Highly Cited Researcher (world´s most cited authors, 2004)
- Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada (1998)
- Lansdowne Lecturer of the University of Victoria (1997)
- MSA Award - Mineralogical Society of America (1996)
- Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America (1995)
- NSG Distinguished Scholar - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (1994)
- Gerhard-Hess-Research Prize of the German Science Foundation (DFG) (1993-98)
- Victor-Moritz-Goldschmidt-Prize of the German Mineralogical Society (DMG) (1991)
- AGU Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing - Journal of Geophysical Research (1989)
- Carnegie Institution of Washington Fellowship (1984-1986)
- NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship (1984-86)
- NSERC 1967 Science Scholarship (1980)
- University Medal for Academic Excellence (1980)
