Gideon Henderson
Professor Gideon Mark Henderson FRS is a British geochemist. His work focuses on low temperature geochemistry, the carbon cycle, and on understanding the mechanisms driving climate change. Henderson was the Head of Department at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford.Education
Henderson graduated with an Honours degree in Earth Sciences from Hertford College, Oxford. He next went to St John's College, Cambridge, to complete a Ph.D. supervised by Professor Sir Keith O'Nions.Career
After his PhD, Henderson moved to the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, working with Wally Broecker. He then became a University Lecturer in Environmental Earth Sciences, BFD at the University of Oxford. Since 2007, Henderson has held the position of Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford. He leads the research group "Isotopes and the Environment" and is a Fellow of University College, Oxford. He is presently working as the Chief Scientific Advisor to Defra.Awards
Awards include European Union of Geosciences outstanding young scientist award, and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2001. He is a member of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research Planning Group for GEOTRACES, an international study of the global marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes.
In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, his nomination read:
