Marie Edmonds is an Earth Scientist who works across the fields of volcanology, igneous petrology, tectonics, atmospheric science and economic geology. Her research seeks to understand the reservoirs and fluxes of volatile elements in Earth, species which play a critical role in generating an equitable planetary surface, for triggering and sustaining volcanic eruptions and for transporting metals to sites of ore deposits. Edmonds has made advances in volcano monitoring related to magma degassing, transport and storage in the crust, in understanding the geological carbon cycle, in magmatic fluids and their importance in ore deposit formation and in reconstructing the largest eruptions in the geological record and their impact on climate and the environment.
Marie Edmonds is Professor of Volcanology and Petrology and Head of the Earth Sciences department at the University of Cambridge and the Ron Oxburgh Fellow and Vice President of Queens’ College, Cambridge. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and the American Geophysical Union College of Fellows.
Professional position
- Head of Department and Professor of Volcanology and Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
