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Employment History
- 2015 - present
- BGS Professor of Geophysics, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK.
- 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
- 1984
- BSc, Geophysics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
- 1991
- PhD, Geophysics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Dissertation: Contributions to the theory and modelling of seismic waves in anisotropic inhomogeneous media
Supervisor: Colin Thomson
Notables
- 1992 - 1993
- Green's Scholar, IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
- 1992
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- 1993
- Young Scientist's Publication Award - European Geophysical Society
- 1996 - 2000
- Associate editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research
- 1998 - present
- Committee member of the British Geophysical Association
- 2001
- Bernstein Scholar in Residence, Carleton College, Minnesota
- 2002 - present
- Secretary of the UK IUGG pannel
- 2002 - present
- UK representative to the International Association for Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior
- 2003
- Bullerwell lecturer
- 2008
- Visiting Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2009 - 2015
- President of the British Geophysical Association (BGA)
- 2010 - 2011
- Evaluation Committee, Review of Earth Sciences, Research Council of Norway
- 2010 - 2012
- Vice-president (Geophysics) of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
- 2011
- Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- 2011 - 2014
- Committee member - Science Innovation and Strategy Board (SISB), NERC
- 2012 - 2014
- Scientific advisory board, InSalah CO2 storage (JIP: BP, Statoil and Sonatrach)
- 2012 - 2014
- Chair – Radioactivity and the Environment (RATE) expert group, NERC
- 2014 - present
- Chair – Joint Capital Advisory Group (JCAG), NERC
- 2015 - present
- Member – Scientific Advisory Group, Energy security and innovation observing system (ESIOS), NERC
- 2015 - present
- Chair – Scientific scoping group for proposed strategic programme: Unconventional Hydrocarbon Extraction, NERC
- 2016
- Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan
- List of Publications
Contact
Michael Kendall,
School of Earth Sciences,
University of Bristol,
Bristol, BS8 1RJ,
United Kingdom.
44 (0)117 331 5126
44 (0)117 925 3385 (fax)