Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow: Colin Graham

Colin Graham has been made Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow.

He is Professor of Experimental Geochemistry in the School of GeoSciences.

Professor Graham completed his Geology BSc and Geochemistry PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1969 and 1973. He then moved to the University of California, Los Angeles, to become a NATO Research Fellow and then Assistant Professor.

He returned to a research post in experimental geochemistry at the University of Edinburgh in 1976, before becoming a lecturer in 1979, reader in 1986 and professor (Personal Chair in Experimental Geochemistry) in 1993. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1992.

Professor Graham has undertaken research at Arizona State University and the University of Wisconsin, where he was Weeks Invited Lecturer in 1992. In 2003 he was Wenner Gren Visiting Professor at the University of Stockholm.

He led the establishment of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Ion Microprobe Facility in Edinburgh in 1987.

His research interests have spanned the behaviour of fluids in the Earth’s crust, the isotopic microanalysis of minerals, granite genesis, and the stability of water-bearing minerals.

He helped to establish the Scottish Earth Science Education Forum (SESEF) in 2001. He was awarded the Coke Medal of the Geological Society in 2000.

Amongst his various personal interests are traditional and classical music, and hillwalking.