Phone: (831) 459-3132
E-mail: qwilliams@es.ucsc.edu
1999-present Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, U.C. Santa Cruz
1995-1999 Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, U.C. Santa Cruz
1991-1995 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, U.C. Santa Cruz
1991-present Faculty Affiliate, Institute of Tectonics, U.C. Santa Cruz
1988-1991 Assistant Research Geophysicist, Institute of Tectonics, U.C. Santa Cruz
1989-91 Lecturer, Dept. of Earth Sciences, U.C. Santa Cruz
1983-88 Research Assistant, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, U.C. Berkeley
1985 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, U.C. Berkeley
1983 A.B. (Chemistry), cum laude, Princeton University
1988 Ph.D. (Geology), University of California at Berkeley
Honors and Awards
10/93-10/98 Presidential Faculty Fellow, National Science Foundation, $500,000 (extended to 10/00: EAR-9350220).
1999 Excellence in Teaching Award, Phi Beta Kappa (Northern California Chapter)
2000 Mineralogical Society of America Award
2000 Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union
2000 Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America
2000 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
2000- Member, Committee for Studies of the Earthıs Deep Interior, American Geophysical Union
1999- Program Committee, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (Mineral and Rock Physics Representative)
1998- Member, HIPPO Design Team of LANSC (High Pressure and Preferred Orientation Diffractometer Design Team of the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center); Also, UCSC Representative to HIPPO Facility at LANSC.
1998- Member, Mineral and Rock Physics Committee of the American Geophysical Union
1998 NSF Panelist, Cooperative Studies of the Earthıs Deep Interior Program
1995 A.G.U., Tectonophysics Best Student Paper Awards Committee
1988-89 American Geophysical Union, Program Committee, Fall Meeting, Tectonophysics Section
1984- Member, American Geophysical Union
1994- American Association for the Advancement of Science
1987- Mineralogic Society of America