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in 1976. He served as chairman of the Faculty of Earth Sciences 1985 to 1988 and again in 1999-2001, along with the Fraser Committee on the future structure of science in Oxford in the late eighties. In 2006, he became a member of Oxford's University Council, elected unopposed, and served as senior
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He lists skiing, poetry, golf and music among his interests, and the "thermodynamic properties of molten silicates and in the adsorption of biomolecules on mineral surfaces and their role in the origin of biochirality" as research areas. He also co-authored
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1998-99, primarily in geological and planetary sciences. He has served as chairman and managing director of university "spin-out" StatSci Europe, and as a director of Prolysis; he has also worked as a consultant to several companies in the
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reform in Oxford. He has also warned of a growing "bonus culture" in Oxford, something the University denies.
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proctor in the 2008-09 year. He was a tutorial fellow in geology at
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as a senior research associate 1984-85, and as a fellow of the
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between 1974 and 1976, and as a Fellow on the governing body of
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1977-78. In 1976, he began to lecture at the university in
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Edinburgh
Emeritus Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Oxford University
Fellow
Worcester College, Oxford
Proctor
junior research fellow
Merton College, Oxford
Wolfson College, Oxford
geochemistry
Columbia University
Worcester College, Oxford
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Mainz
CNRS Nice
Institute for the Study of the Earth's Interior
Misasa
Japan
California Institute of Technology
petrochemical
Royal Dutch Shell
Chevron
Elementary Thermodynamics for Geologists
Bernard Wood
chirality
Vice-Chancellor
John Hood's
Governance
"Key University Officers"

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