Keith O'Nions is the former Director General of the Research Councils UK as well as Professor of the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford.
10 Facts About Keith O'Nions
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Keith O'Nions studied geology as an undergraduate at the University of Nottingham, and completed a PhD at the University of Alberta before taking up a postdoctoral position at the University of Oslo.
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Keith O'Nions remained in Cambridge until 1995, when he returned to Oxford to take up the Professorship of Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.
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Keith O'Nions was Knighted in 1999, and from 2000 to 2004 he was Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence.
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In 1979, Keith O'Nions was awarded the James B Macelwane Award by the American Geophysical Union, followed in 1983 with the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London.
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In 1985, Keith O'Nions was named Hallimond Lecturer by the Mineralogical Society and in 1986, was named both UK-Canada Rutherford Lecturer by the Royal Society and William Smith Lecturer by the Geological Society of London.
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Keith O'Nions was further named Ingerson Lecturer by the Geological Society of America in 1990.
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Keith O'Nions was named Bruce Peller Prize Lecturer by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004, and appointed as a HonFREng of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2005.
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Keith O'Nions is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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Keith O'Nions served on the Board of A*Star, Singapore from 2013 to 2021, was Chair of Cambridge Enterprise from 2014 to 2020 and is Chair of Council, University of Nottingham.