Marian Barbara Holness#
© The Royal Society, 2020
| Membership Number: | 7098 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/directory/marian-holness |
Present and Previous Positions
- 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.
Fields of Scholarship
- Igneous petrology
- Geochemistry
- Metamorphic systems
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 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
- 1993 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- 1986 Horne Prize, Clare College, University of Cambridge
- 1985 Foundation Scholarship, Clare College, University of Cambridge
- 1985 Wiltshire Prize, University of Cambridge
