Prof. Kelly Russell, Ph.D.

Kelly Russell is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada.

He received his PhD from the University of Calgary in 1984 and joined UBC in the same year, becoming a full professor in 1999.

He has received numerous awards for his scientific contributions, including the Peacock Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada (2008), the Career Achievement Medal of the Geological Association of Canada (2010), Fellowship of the Mineralogical Society of America (2016), membership in the Academia Europaea (2022), and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2023).

His research focuses on volcanology and igneous petrology, particularly the formation, transport, and eruption of magma. His current research interests include glaciovolcanism, modelling the viscosity of planetary melts, and the transport of mantle xenoliths by ascending magma. His work combines field studies with numerical modelling and experimental investigations.

He was previously a member of the CAS Research Group “Magma to Tephra: Ash in the Earth System,” led by Prof. Dr. Donald B. Dingwell, and spent time at CAS as a Visiting Fellow in 2019. Together with Zhengfu Guo, he gave a talk entitled “The Pacific Ring of Fire: Insights from Canada and China” as part of the CAS research colloquium series on March 13.

Kelly Russell is a member of the CAS Research Group “Enabling Deep Earth Access,” led by Prof. Dr. Yan Lavallée. In 2026/27, he is once again a Visiting Fellow at CAS.