(B.Sc. (1980) Memorial, Ph.D. Alberta (1984) was born in Corner Brook, Nfld., Canada. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Geophysical Laboratory (Carnegie Institution of Washington) and a Professorship at the U. of Toronto, a research position at U. Bayreuth, and was chair and director at the LMU Munich for over 20 years.
Dingwell's principal research interest is the physico-chemical description of molten rocks and their impact on volcanic systems and ore deposit formation. He has published ca. 600 papers which have accumulated over 40K citations. His approach is fundamentally experimental and materials-based.
He has received over a dozen national and international scientific awards, medals and prizes and been recognised with 6 honorary degrees. He is an elected member of several of the world’s most prestigious national and international academies on three continents and bears the Bundesverdienstkreuz of Germany, the Order of Canada (OC), and the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Friendship medal of China. He has been President of the European Geoscience Union (EGU) and the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth´s Interior (IAVCEI), and was the 3rd and last Secretary-General of the European Research Council. He is currently President of the Academia Europaea.
