Graham Pearson

D. Graham Pearson FRS is a British geologist and geochemist, who is best known for his work using diamonds to understand the continental mantle lithosphere. Since 2010, he has been a professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2023.

Life and works
Pearson was born in West Yorkshire. He completed his undergraduate degree in geology at Imperial College, London, and then undertook a PhD in isotope geochemistry at the University of Leeds. After holding research positions at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Open University, Pearson was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Durham. In 2010, he was appointed to a chair at the University of Alberta.

Awards
Pearson's work has been recognised with numerous awards. In 2017, he was awarded the Robert Wilhelm Bunsen medal of the European Geosciences Union, for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the sub-continental mantle, and innovations in geochemical techniques. In 2021, he received the Murchison Medal from the Geological Society of London for his studies of the deep Earth and planetary materials, and in 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.