Donald Gordon Fraser (born 30 October 1949 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University, a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and in 2008-09 held the office of Senior Proctor within the University.
In 2006, he became a member of Oxford's University Council, elected unopposed,[3] and served as senior proctor in the 2008-09 year.
[2] He was a senior visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, in 1980-81, later joining CNRS Nice as a senior research associate 1984-85, and as a fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Earth's Interior (Misasa, Japan) 1997-98, returning in 2001-02 as a research fellow and afterwards as a member of its advisory panel.
He also worked as a visiting associate of the California Institute of Technology 1998-99, primarily in geological and planetary sciences.
[2] He lists skiing, poetry, golf and music among his interests,[2] and the "thermodynamic properties of molten silicates and in the adsorption of biomolecules on mineral surfaces and their role in the origin of biochirality" as research areas.