Michael Manga

{{Short description|Canadian-American geoscientist (born 1968)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Michael Manga | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|7|22}} | birth_place = Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | citizenship = | fields = Earth and Planetary Sciences | workplaces = University of California, Berkeley | patrons = National Science Foundation | alma_mater = McGill University;<br /> Harvard University | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = MacArthur Fellow | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website = http://seismo.berkeley.edu/~manga/ | footnotes = }} '''Michael Manga''' (born July 22, 1968)<ref name="Who's Who">{{cite web|url=https://advance.lexis.com/api/permalink/e43d2754-9df4-46bd-97c9-711e1b2a3791/?context=1516831|title=Michael Manga|work=The Complete Marquis Who's Who Biographies|date=January 17, 2017|accessdate=April 9, 2020|via=Nexis|url-access=subscription}}</ref> is a Canadian-American geoscientist who is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Manga grew up in Ottawa.<ref name=NAS>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20022493.html|title=Member directory: Michael Manga|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|accessdate=April 9, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Who's Who"/> His father is a South African immigrant of Indian descent, and his mother is of German and Polish descent.<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051228035352/https://www.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/26manga.htm|archivedate=December 28, 2005|title=Indian origin prof is People mag's 'Smart Guy'|last=Ganjoo|first=Meenakshi|work=Rediff|date=December 26, 2005|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/26manga.htm|accessdate=April 9, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canada-born-scientist-among-peoples-sexiest/article18255264/|title=Canada-born scientist among People's sexiest|author=Canadian Press|work=The Globe and Mail|date=December 12, 2005|accessdate=April 9, 2020}}</ref> He has a B.S. in geophysics from McGill University (1990), S.M. in engineering sciences from Harvard University (1992), and Ph.D. in Earth and planetary sciences (1994) from Harvard.<ref name=Berkeley>{{Cite web|url=http://seismo.berkeley.edu/~manga/|title = Michael Manga}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis|title=The motion of deformable drops and bubbles at low Reynolds numbers: applications to selected problems in geology and geophysics|date=1994|last=Manga|first=Michael|publisher=Harvard University|type=Ph.D.|url=http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990048794240203941/catalog|oclc=32000812}}</ref>

In 1994 he was selected as a Miller Fellow at the University of California Berkeley for a two-year term. Following his move to the University of Oregon he returned to Berkeley. In 2008-2009 he was named a Miller Research Professor. He served on the executive committee of the Miller Institute between 2009 and 2016.

In 2003, he made Popular Science magazines second annual PopSci Brilliant 10 list<ref>Chamot, Josh. [https://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/tip030922.htm "NSF Grants Help Popular Science's "Brilliant 10" Define the Cutting Edge of Science"], NSF Newsroom Archives, September 22, 2003.</ref> and won the Geological Society of America's Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal).<ref>GSA Medals & Awards, Geological Society of America website, https://www.geosociety.org/awards/03speeches/donath.htm</ref>

A 2005 MacArthur Fellow, he won an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of his studies of geological fluid mechanics and magma flow prior to eruptions.

In November 2005, shortly after receiving the MacArthur, Manga made another list, the People's "Sexiest Man Alive" issue in which he admits that he agreed to be included because, "I wanted to get information out to people who wouldn't normally hear or see anything about science."<ref>Edelstein, Wendy.[http://berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2005/12/02_manga.shtml "Hesitant hottie"], UC Berkeley News, December 2, 2005.</ref>

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

His research interests include planetary science, fluid mechanics, hydrology, geodynamics, and physical volcanology.

== Academic Background == * '''1986''' Ontario Secondary Diploma, Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Ottawa, ON, CANADA * '''1990''' B.S. (Geophysics) McGill University in Montreal, QC, CANADA * '''1992''' S.M. (Engineering Sciences) Harvard University in Cambridge, MA USA * '''1994''' Ph.D. (Earth and Planetary Sciences) Harvard University

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==External links== * [http://seismo.berkeley.edu/~manga/rsch.html UC Berkeley profile]

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