David Price

G. David PRICE was Vice-Provost (Research) at UCL, and was formerly Executive Dean of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Faculty and Professor of Mineral Physics in the Dept of Earth Sciences. David has an undergraduate degree and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar and Research Associate at the University of Chicago and a Research Fellow at Clare College Cambridge, before coming to UCL in 1983 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.


He was one of the first to establish the now major field of computational mineral physics, and has over 300 publications. He was awarded the Schlumberger Medal of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain in 1999; the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2002; and in 2006 he was awarded the Louis Néel Medal of the European Geosciences Union for “establishing the importance of computational mineral physics in Earth sciences and for outstanding contributions to the physics of the Earth's core". He is a Member of the Academia Europaea and an Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the Mineralogical Society of America. He has been an editor of “Earth and Planetary Science Letters” (2005-8); President of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2004-6); and was a member of the UK’s HEFCE RAE2008 sub-panel on Earth and Environmental Sciences. Also, he was the chair the HEFCE REF2014 sub-panel on Earth and Environmental Sciences. He was a non-executive director of the North Middlesex University Hospital, Chair of the HEFCE UK Forum for Responsible Research Metrics, Chair of Governors of the UCLAcademy School, and a Council Member of the STFC.


Most recently he was Chair of the LERU Committee of Vice-Rectors of Research, and Chair of Panel B for the UK REF 2021. He is currently a Governor of Latymer Upper School and a Council member of the University of Loughborough.