Donald Bruce Dingwell (born 1958) is a Canadian geoscientist who is the director of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Ordinarius for Mineralogy and Petrology of the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

. He is also currently vice-president of the

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. From September 2011 to December 2013, he was the third and last secretary general of the

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(ERC), where he embarked on a global participation campaign for the ERC. He is also a past-President of the

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and the current past-president of the

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(IAVCEI), founded in 1919.

Career

Dingwell was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada. He began his research career at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (now

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) where he was a Carnegie Fellow from 1984 to 1986 working at the Geophysical Laboratory. His first permanent (tenure-track) appointment was to the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

as assistant professor. In 1987 he moved to the newly founded Bavarian Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics (Bavarian Geo-institute) at the University of Bayreuth where he served as assistant to the founding Director

Friedrich Seifert Friedrich Alfred Seifert (born 8 May 1941) is a German mineralogist and geophysicist. He is the founding director of Bayerisches Geoinstitut at University of Bayreuth. A silicate mineral, seifertite, is named after him. Life and work Seifert was ...

. Dingwell has been based at his present position as Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology in the Faculty of Geosciences of the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) since 2000. He has also served as the director of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, since its founding in 2002.

Awards and honours

Dingwell has been awarded the Arthur L. Day Medal of the

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. In December 2019, the

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announced that Dingwell had been made an

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. Dingwell was similarly made a Member of the

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in 2021. In 2017, he became a member of the

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (), in short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded on 1 January 1652, based on academic models in Italy, it was originally named the ''Academi ...

. In 2020, he was awarded the Arthur Holmes Medal by the

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References

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