Donald B. Dingwell

Donald B. Dingwell
Born
Donald Bruce Dingwell

29 June 1958 (1958-06-29) (age 67)
Alma materMemorial University of Newfoundland, University of Alberta
AwardsOfficer of the Order of Canada (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsExperimental geosciences
InstitutionsCarnegie Institution of Washington (1984-1986)
University of Toronto (1986-1987)
Bayerisches Geoinstitut (1987-2000)
Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (2000-present)
ThesisInvestigation of the role of fluorine in silicate melts: implications for igneous petrogenesis (1986)
Doctoral advisorChristopher M. Scarfe

Donald Bruce Dingwell FRS FRSC OC ONL (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. He is also currently vice-president of the Academia Europaea. From September 2011 to December 2013, he was the third and last secretary general of the European Research Council (ERC), where he embarked on a global participation campaign for the ERC. He is also a past-President of the European Geosciences Union and the current past-president of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI), founded in 1919.