Dr. Stephen Mackwell
Professional Background

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Director, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2002–present
• Director, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth, Germany, 2000–2002
• Professor for Experimental Geophysics, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, 1998–2000
• Tenured Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, 1992–1998
• Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, 1987–1992
• Research Fellow, Cornell University, 1984–1987

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Philosophy, Geophysics, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, March 1985. Thesis: “Diffusion and Weakening Effects of Water in Quartz and Olivine.”
• Diploma of Education, Christchurch Teachers College, New Zealand, November 1979.
• Master of Science, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 1979. Thesis: “Excitation Temperatures for Late Type Stars.”
• Bachelor of Science, Physics and Mathematics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, August 1978.

U.S. RESEARCH GRANTS

• National Science Foundation: Geophysics, continuous support 1988–1998, $60K/year.
• National Science Foundation: Geochemistry, continuous support 1989–1998, $50K/year.
• NASA: Planetary Geophysics, continuous support 1993–1998, $65K/year.
  Minor additional support from Petroleum Research Fund, Gas Research Institute.

HONORS

• Stipendiat der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bayreuth, Germany, 1996.
• Ministére de L’Education Nationale, Academie de Lille, Nonund Professeur, 1996.
• Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America, 1996.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorships

• Editor-in-Chief, Geophysical Research Letters, 2002–2004.
• Editorial Board, Tectonophysics, 2002.
• Editor (Solid Earth), Geophysical Research Letters, 2000–2001.
• Editorial Board, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 1996–present.
• Editorial Board, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 1992–1998.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research — Solid Earth, 1992–1997.

Service to U.S. Government Agencies

• Program Director for Geophysics, Division of Earth Sciences, National Science Foundation, 1993–1994.
• Expert Reviewer for the Department of Energy’s Geosciences Research Program, 1993.
• Review Panel for NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1994–1996, 2002–present.
• Group Chief of Review Panel for NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1996–1998.
• Expert Consultant for the Division of Earth Sciences, National Science Foundation, 1995.

Membership and Activities on U.S. and International Committees

• Mineral Physics Committee, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1990–1992.
• Meetings Program Committee, AGU, 1988–1991.
• Mineral Acquisition and Distribution Subcommittee, Mineral Physics Committee, AGU, 1989–1990.
• Physical Properties of Earth Materials Committee, Tectonophysics Section, AGU, 1989–1991.
• Editor-in-Chief, Frontiers in Mineral Physics: Report of Mineral Physics Committee of the AGU, 1988.
• Mineral Physics Editor for EOS Trans. AGU, 1990–1992.
• Vice President, IASPEI Comm. on Physical Properties of Material of the Earth’s Interior, 1991–1995.
• Meetings Committee, AGU, 1992–1996.
• 75th Anniversary Committee, AGU, 1992–1994.
• Chairman, IASPEI-IAVCEI Commission on Physical and Chemical Properties of Material of the Earth’s Interior, 1995–1999.
• Forschungskollegium Physik des Erdkorpers e.V., Mitglieder, 2000–present.
• Mineral and Rock Physics Committee, AGU, 2000–2003.

DOCTORAL STUDENT RESEARCH SUPERVISION

• Kai Neufeld, “Deformation of Serpentinite during Dehydration”, Ph.D., anticipated date 2004.
• Helene Couvy, “High-Pressure Deformation of Mantle Minerals”, Ph.D., anticipated date 2003.
• Sylvie Demouchy, “Water Diffusion in Upper Mantle Minerals”, Ph.D., anticipated date 2003.
• Susan Carpenter, “The Kinetics of Hydrogen Diffusion in Single-Crystal Orthopyroxene”, Ph.D., 2000.
• Misha Bystricky, “High Temperature Deformation of Clinopyroxene and Clinopyroxene-Plagioclase Aggregates”, Ph.D., 1998.
• Jeffrey Lawlis, “Deformation of Olivine-Orthopyroxene Aggregates”, Ph.D., 1998.
• Diana K. Fisler, “Diffusion in Mantle Minerals”, Ph.D., 1993.
  
  

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