Staff Profile:Professor Mark Hodson
- Name:
- Professor Mark Hodson
- Job Title:
- Head of Department, Professor in Environmental Geochemistry and Mineralogy
- Responsibilities:
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- Head of Department
- Director of the Earth System Science Research Group
- Areas of Interest:
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The main aim of Mark's research is to understand the biogeochemistry of soils and contaminated environments. Over the last 10 years he has authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and been funded by the NERC, BBSRC, CCLRC / STFC, Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society and industry.
- Research groups / Centres:
- Earth Systems Science Research Group
- Publications:
Key Facts
Mark Hodson joined the Department in 2000 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2004, Reader in 2006 and Professor in 2009. Following his PhD at the Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, he spent three years working on mineral weathering and acid rain as a postdoctoral scientist at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Aberdeen. He then moved south, initially to work as an environmental mineralogist at the Natural History Museum in London and then as a lecturer in geochemistry at the Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology at Reading.
Out in the wider world Mark is the general secretary of the Mineralogical Society of Britain and Ireland. He is on the Editorial boards of the journals Environmental Pollution and Applied Geochemistry. He has served on the NERC peer-review college and the CCLRC Facility Access Panel (Chemistry and Environment section).
Mark is a Research Associate at the Natural History Museum and a visiting Reader at the Department of Geological Sciences, University College, London.
In 2004 Mark was awarded the Max Hey medal of the Mineralogical Society of Britain and Ireland and in 2005 the Houtermans medal of the European Association for Geochemistry.
