Marian Holness

Marian Holness
Born
Marian Barbara Holness
EducationUniversity of Cambridge (PhD)
AwardsRoyal Society University Research Fellowship (1994)
Murchison Medal (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsEarth Sciences
Geology
Mineralogy
Petrology[1]
WorkplacesUniversity of Cambridge
University of Edinburgh
ThesisExperimental and petrological studies of textural equilibrium and fluid flow in metacarbonate rocks : the Beinn an Dubhaich Aureole, Skye (1990)
Websitewww.esc.cam.ac.uk/directory/marian-holness Edit this at Wikidata

Marian Barbara Holness is a British geologist who is a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.[1][2][3]

Education

Holness was educated at state schools in Southampton and the University of Cambridge where she studied the Natural Sciences Tripos and completed a PhD in 1990.[4][5]

Career and research

Her research interests are in Earth Sciences, Geology, Mineralogy and Petrology.[1]

She was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2019,[6] and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Marian Holness publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ↑ www.esc.cam.ac.uk/directory/marian-holness Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ↑ Marian Holness publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. ↑ "Women in STEM: Professor Marian Holness". University of Cambridge. 31 October 2019.
  5. ↑ "Professor Marian Holness | Royal Society". royalsociety.org.
  6. ↑ "Geological Society awards for Cambridge researchers". University of Cambridge. 4 March 2019.
  7. ↑ "Marian Holness". Royal Society. Retrieved 19 September 2020.