Jillian Banfield

Jill Banfield FRS FAA
Jillian Banfield at the Royal Society admissions day in July 2018
Born	Jillian Fiona Banfield (1959-08-18) 18 August 1959 (age 64) Armidale, New South Wales
Alma mater	Australian National University (BSc) Johns Hopkins University (PhD)
Awards	V. M. Goldschmidt Award (2017) Dana Medal (2010)
Scientific career
Fields	Nanogeoscience[1] Microbial Ecology[1] Geomicrobiology[1] Metagenomics[1] Mineralogy[1]
Institutions	University of Melbourne University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Tokyo University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	HRTEM studies of subsolidus alteration, weathering, and subsequent diagenetic and low-grade metamorphic reactions (1990)
Doctoral advisor	David R. Veblen[2]
Website	nanogeoscience.berkeley.edu

Jillian Fiona Banfield FRS FAA (born Armidale, Australia) is professor at the University of California, Berkeley with appointments in the Earth Science, Ecosystem Science and Materials Science and Engineering departments.^[3] She is the director of microbiology the Innovative Genomics Institute, is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and has a position at the University of Melbourne, Australia.^[3] Some of her most noted work includes publications on the structure and functioning of microbial communities and the nature, properties and reactivity (especially crystal growth) of nanomaterials.^[1][4][5]