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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Petrology,Geology,Geophysics |
| Keywords | Transport Properties, Geophysics, Material Synthesis, Rheology, High-pressure |
| Honours and awards | 2014: Bessel Award 2010: Bullerwell Lecturer of the British Geophysical Association 2010: MSA Distinguished Lecturer 2005: EGU Young Scientist Medal 2005: EUG Research Excellence Medal 2004: Philip Leverhulme Prize |
Current contact address
| Country | United Kingdom |
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| City | London |
| Institution | University College London (UCL) |
| Institute | Department of Earth Sciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Stephen Mackwell | Geographisches Institut, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth |
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| Prof. Dr. David C. Rubie | Geographisches Institut, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth |
| Prof. Dr. David C. Rubie | Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Experimentelle Geochemie und Geophysik (BGI), Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/04/2001 |
Programme(s)
| 2000 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme |
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| 2013 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
Nominator's project description
| Professor Dobson is an international expert in the field of high-pressure mineral physics and mineralogy. He has made major contributions to understanding transport properties of materials under conditions of the Earth's deep mantle and metallic core, such as chemical diffusivity, thermal diffusivity, melt viscosity and solid-state rheology. In Germany he will work on the deformation properties of the post-perovskite phase, which is the dominant mineral at the very base of the Earth's mantle, as well as extending his previous research on deep earthquakes. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2002 | David Peter Dobson, L. Bocadlo, I. G. Wood: A new high-pressure phase of FeSi. In: Amer. Mineral., 2002, 784-787 |
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| 2002 | David Peter Dobson, Michael Wiedenbeck: Fe- and C-self-diffusion in liquid Fe3C to 15GPa. In: Geophysical Research Letters, 2002, 2-1-2-4 |
| 2002 | David Peter Dobson: Self-diffusion in liquid Fe at high pressure. In: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2002, 271-284 |
| 2002 | David Peter Dobson, Philip G. Meredith, Stephen A. Boon: Simulation of Subduction Zone Seismicity by Dehydration of Serpentine. In: Science, 2002, 1407-1410 |
| 2002 | Lidunka Vocadlo, John Brodholt, David Peter Dobson, K. S. Knight, W. G. Marshall, G. David Price, Ian G. Wood The effect of ferromagnitism on the equation of state of Fe3C studied by first-principles calculations. In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2002, 567-575 |