Jon Blundy
Professor Jonathan David Blundy FRS (b. 7th August 1961), is Professor of Petrology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. He is a graduate of University College, Oxford (B.A., 1980) and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (PhD, 1989) and a former Kennedy Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985). He was educated at Brazil, Giggleswick School and Leeds Grammar School.
He is most noted for advancing the understanding of how magmas are generated in the Earth's crust and mantle and of the processes that occur in volcanoes before they erupt. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.
He has one daughter, Lilian (born 1997), one son, Stanley (born 1994) and one step daughter, Jennifer (born 1989).
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