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Professor Stephen Self, Volcanologist
Stephen (Steve) Self (born October 1946) is an Adjunct Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California at Berkeley. He is one of the world's leading volcanologists and has been widely recognized for his work in this field. He is the co-creator of the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), which is a relative measure of the explosiveness of volcanic eruptions. It was devised by Chris Newhall and Steve when they were at Dartmouth College ~1979 [ United States Geological Survey, ret.]

Career and Research
Steve Self is a graduate of Leeds University, UK, where he first completed a B.Sc. (1970), and then a PhD from Imperial College of Science and Technology, (1974) under the supervision of George P. L. Walker. He was subsequently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Victoria University, Wellington, NZ (1974-1976). He then became a NASA supported Research Fellow at Dartmouth University (1977-1979). His first professorship was at Arizona State University in (1979 - 1983). Steve then moved to University of Texas, Arlington, where he worked with New Zealand colleague, John McPherson. While at UT, Steve was given the opportunity to broaden the remit of the department, and hired John Wolff, [ Washington State University, ret.] and took on students such as Thor Thordarson [ University of Iceland] and Lori Glaze [director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate's Planetary Science Division]. They have all become long term research associates of Steve's throughout his career. After UT, and a visiting professorship at University of Cambridge, UK, Steve moved to University of Hawai'i, Manoa, in 1990, where he stayed until 2001. Then, following the untimely death of Steve's close colleague and friend, Peter Francis, Steve was requested to apply for Peter's position as Professor of Volcanology at The Open University, UK.

Steve Self has been very influential in the field of volcanology. He has published over 200 hundred of papers, which have been cited more than 22,000 times. He was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2009, and was Vice President of IAVCEI from 2011-2015.