Stephen J. Mackwell
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| Born |
June 5, 1956 Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Alma mater |
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| Awards | Asteroid 5292 Mackwell (2016) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017) Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2010) Stipendiat der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (1996) Ministère de L’Education Nationale, Academie de Lille, Nommé Professeur (1996) Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America (1996) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geophysics, Planetary Science |
| Institutions |
Universities Space Research Association Lunar and Planetary Institute Rice University |
Stephen J. Mackwell (born June 5, 1956) is an internationally recognized researcher in geophysics, specializing in laboratory-based studies of the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of geological materials. He is also interested in the transport of fluid components in mantle and crustal rocks on the microscopic and macroscopic scales, and on the effects of such components on mechanical properties. He has authored or co-authored over 80 articles in international scientific journals and is an editor of a book on comparative climatology of terrestrial planets published by the University of Arizona Press.
Stephen J. Mackwell received a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics in August 1978 at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He continued his studies at the University of Canterbury and earned his M.Sc. in Physics in August 1979. His master’s thesis was titled “Excitation Temperatures for Late Type Stars.” He went on to receive his Diploma of Education at Christchurch Teachers College in New Zealand in November 1979. He earned his Ph.D. in Geophysics in March 1985 from the Research School of Earth Sciences of the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. His dissertation was titled “Diffusion and Weakening Effects of Water in Quartz and Olivine.”
Stephen J. Mackwell worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1984 to 1987, and then moved to the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor in 1987 and subsequently Associate Professor of Geosciences in 1992. He was Program Director for Geophysics in the Earth Sciences Division at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. from 1993-1994, and spent 1996 as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Bayreuth, Germany. In 1998, Mackwell became a Full Professor for Experimental Geophysics at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut at the University of Bayreuth. In January 2000 he was appointed Director of the Bayerisches Geoinstitut and served there until December 2002.
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