Professor Mike Kendall FRS

Employment History

2019 – current
Professor of Geophysics
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Oxford

2015 – 2019
BGS Professor of Geophysics, School of Earth Sciences,
University of Bristol.

2005 – 2015
Professor of Seismology,
School of Earth Sciences,
University of Bristol, UK.
(Head of School 2009-2013)

2002 – 2005
Professor of Seismology,
School of Earth Sciences,
University of Leeds, UK.

1999 – 2002
Reader in Geophysics,
School of Earth Sciences,
University of Leeds, UK.

1995 – 1999
University Research Fellow,
School of Earth Sciences,
University of Leeds, UK.

1993 – 1995
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of Toronto, ON, Canada.

1992 – 1993
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
La Jolla, CA, USA.

1984 – 1986
Geophysicist,
Chevron Canada Resources Limited,
Calgary, AB, Canada.

Education

1991
PhD, Geophysics, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada.

1984
BSc, Geophysics, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada.

Dissertation

Contributions to the theory and modelling of seismic waves in anisotropic inhomogeneous media

Supervisor: Colin Thomson

Honours

2019
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

2016
Best of Bristol Lecturer
(one of nine voted by students across the University).

2012
Best Technical Talk, Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysics.

2014
British Geological Survey Professorship.

2008
Visiting Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan.

2001
Bernstein Scholar in Residence, Carleton College, Minnesota.

2003
Bullerwell Lecturer.

1995
University Research Fellowship, University of Leeds, UK.

1993
Young Scientist’s Publication Award – European Geophysical Society

1992 – 1993
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

1992-1993
Green’s Scholar, IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA

Activities (selected)

2020
Committee chair,
Royal Society Young Person Book Prize

2019
Committee member,
European Research Council (ERC) panel for consolidator grants.

2014 – 2016
Chair of the Joint Capital Advisory Group (JCAG), NERC

2015 – present
Scientific Advisory Group, UK-GEOS, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

2012 – 2014
Scientific advisory board member,
InSalah CO2 storage project.

2011 – 2014
Committee member of the Science Innovation and Strategy Board (SISB), NERC.

2010 – 2012
Vice-president (Geophysics) of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)

2009 – 2014
President of the British
Geophysical Association (BGA).

2005 – 2010
Associate Editor of Geophysical Journal International

2000 – 2011
UK secretary for the International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics (IUGG)

1998 – 2011
UK representative,
International Association for Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior
(IASPEI)

1996 – 2000
Associate editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research