Bernard (Bernie) Wood FRS MAE is a British geologist, and professor of mineralogy and senior research fellow at the University of Oxford.
[1] He is a prominent figure in the field of experimental petrology, having received multiple awards throughout his career and taught at several universities worldwide.
He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, after which he became principal scientist at Rockwell Hanford Operations.
[4][failed verification] Since 2007, he has been based at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Oxford, where he installed the Experimental Petrology laboratory.
[3] While at Northwestern he worked on the mineralogical changes responsible for the major seismic discontinuities in the Earth's mantle with student Craig Bina.
[3] With Jonathan Blundy he developed models to study compatibility and predict trace element partitioning between crystals and melts, which are relevant for igneous differentiation.