Jonathan D. Blundy#
Membership Number: | 2917 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2011 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/earthsciences/people/jon-d-blundy |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - present Professor of Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
- 2008-2009 Head of Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
- 2007 Guest professor, Nagoya University, Japan
- 2002-2007 NERC Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol
- 1998-1999 Fulbright Scholar, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
- 1995-2002 Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Bristol
- 1991-1995 NERC Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Bristol
- 1990-1991 Junior Research Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford
- 1990-1991 Post-doctoral research assistant to Dr. D.G. Fraser, University of Oxford
- 1989-1990 Post-doctoral research assistant to Professor R.S.J. Sparks, University of Bristol
- 1986-1987 Post-graduate research assistant to Professor R.G. Burns, MIT
- 1985-1986 Kennedy Memorial Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Igneous petrology
- Volcanology
- Experimental geochemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1980 Open scholarship (Natural Sciences), University College, Oxford
- 1983 Burdette Coutts Prize and BP Exploration prize for top first class degree in geology
- 1985 Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1990 Junior Research Fellowship at Hertford College, Oxford
- 1991 NERC Post-doctoral Research Fellowship
- 1994 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- 1997 F.W. Clarke Medal of the Geochemical Society
- 1998 Murchison Fund of The Geological Society
- 1998 Fulbright Commission Research Scholarship to visit University of Oregon, Eugene
- 2002 NERC Senior Research Fellowship
- 2004 University of Bristol Professorial Research Fellowship
- 2005 Bigsby Medal of The Geological Society
- 2008 Distinguished Lecturer, Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
- 2008 Fellow of The Royal Society