Rate My Professor Greg Yaxley

Yaxley's distinguished career at the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences includes positions as Postdoctoral Fellow (1993-1996), ARC Postdoctoral Fellow (1997-1999), Research Fellow in PRISE (2001-2009), ARC Future Fellow (2010-2013), Professor of Experimental Petrology (2014-present), and Head of the Geochemistry Research Area (2021-2024). He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Institute of Mineralogy, Frankfurt University in 1999 and became a Fellow of the Geological Society of Australia in 2021. Among his highly influential publications are 'The amount of recycled crust in sources of mantle-derived melts' (Sobolev et al., 2007), 'Evidence for carbonatite metasomatism in spinel peridotite xenoliths from western Victoria, Australia' (Yaxley et al., 1991), 'Reactions between eclogite and peridotite: mantle refertilisation by subduction of oceanic crust' (Yaxley and Green, 1998), and 'Phase relations of carbonate-bearing eclogite assemblages from 2.5 to 5.5 GPa: implications for petrogenesis of carbonatites' (Yaxley and Brey, 2004). As Co-Chief Investigator in the ANU node of the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Critical Resources for the Future, he supervises postgraduate students including Ramkumar Arcot Parthiban, Rodrigo de Freitas Rodrigues, and Weipin Sun.