Professor Donald Bruce Dingwell, Vice-President of Academia Europaea and AE Cardiff Hub Steering Group member, has received the VIP Career Achievement Award from the Geological Association of Canada (CAC) for his career achievements, his intellectual abilities and his adaptability to explore widely contrasting questions in volcanology and igneous petrology. He is the first scientist working outside Canada to be so-honoured in the 25-year history of the award.

Professor Dingwell holds the Chair of Mineralogy and Petrology in the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Munich, served as European Research Council (ERC) Secretary-General from 2011 to 2013, and has been awarded with two ERC Advanced Investigator Grants.

5th June 2019. For further information please contact Esther Dorado-Ladera, Executive Officer (Projects) DoradoLaderaE@cardiff.ac.uk