George and Orpha Gibson Chair of Earth and Planetary Sciences, U. Minnesota, Minneapolis 2008-present
Professor of Geology and Geophysics, U. Minnesota, Minneapolis 2007-present

Previous professional experience:

Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics, U. Minnesota, Minneapolis 2002-2007
Guest Professor Institut fur Mineralogie und Petrographie, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland 2004-2005
Assistant Professor, U. Minnesota, Minneapolis 1997-2002
Adjunct Assistant Professor, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1994-1997
Visiting Associate, Caltech 1995-1997
Research Associate, U. Washington 1995
Scientific Programmer, U. Oregon Summer, 1988
Instructor, U. Oregon, Summer 1987
Field & Lab Asst, USGS Menlo Park, CA, 1983-1985

Education:

NSF Earth Sciences Post-doctoral Fellow, Caltech 1993-1995. Supervisor: E.M. Stolper.
Ph.D. Geology, U. Washington 1992  
      Dissertation: Studies of nickel and minor elements in olivine and in silicate liquids.  Supervisor:  M.S. Ghiorso
M.S. Geology, U. Oregon 1988  
      Thesis:  Petrogenesis of the transgressive granophyres of the Skaergaard intrusion, East.  Supervisor:  A.R. McBirney
A.B. Geology, U. California, Berkeley 1983

Honors and Awards:

Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America
University of Minnesota McKnight-Land Grant Professorship, 1999-2001
NSF CAREER Award, 1998
NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship 1993
David A. Johnston Fellowship, U. Washington 1991.

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