Christopher Hawkesworth


Christopher John Hawkesworth FRS FRSE is a British earth scientist, and former Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal for Research, at University of St Andrews.

Biography

Hawkesworth was born in Khartoum, Sudan and brought up in Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1970, and Oxford University at St Edmund Hall in 1974. He received his DPhil at Oxford under the supervision of Professor Ron Oxburgh.
He held positions at Open University and University of Bristol prior to holding the Wardlaw Chair of Earth Sciences and the position of Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal of Research at the University of St Andrews until 2014. Awarded the Wollaston Medal in 2012. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.