Marian Barbara Holness - Curriculum Vitae#

EDUCATION

• 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"

CAREER TO DATE

• 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

AWARDS and PRIZES

• 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

POSITIONS HELD, EXTERNAL:

• 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

RECENTLY AWARDED GRANTS

Marie Sklodowska-Curie ECH2020 Fellowship (£142,213) The formation and evolution of monomineralic oxide layers. April 2016 – August 2019.

NERC grant (NE/N009894/1) (£454,523) Regime change: convection and crystallization of magma. With Dr. J Neufeld (Cambridge). April 2016 – April 2021

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.

Career Support Fund (£10,000). University of Cambridge. Awarded January 2024.

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.