Rate My Professor Madeleine Humphreys

Professor Madeleine Humphreys is a Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University. Her research focuses on petrology, volcanology, and magmatism, investigating processes of magma storage, metal enrichment, geochemical evolution, and migration within the crust using natural materials and experimental approaches. Specific interests include crystal textures to quantify magma solidification and physical behaviour of crystal mushes, volatiles in volcanic processes such as the timing of magmatic fluid exsolution, and enrichment and depletion of metals during granite solidification and alteration. She leads an active volcanology-petrology group, with current members including Dr Amanda Lindoo on crystal shape in plagioclase and Dr David Colby on volatiles in apatite. Current PhD students supervised by her include Gemma Brown on apatite volatile geochemistry in the Canary Islands, Katie Schofield on crystal textures and chemistry in the Adamello batholith, and Ella Richmond on lithium enrichment and mobilisation in granites. She co-supervises additional students on crystal mush properties at Illimaussaq, Greenland, and zoned pumice falls in southern Tenerife. Recent postdoctoral researchers include Dr Martin Mangler, now at University of Southampton, Dr Alex Iveson at PNNL USA, and Dr Charline Lormand at University of Geneva. Former postgraduate students hold positions at universities such as Manchester, Lancaster, and St Andrews.