Michael Manga (born July 22, 1968)^[1] is a Canadian-American geoscientist who is currently a professor at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.

Born inHamilton, Ontario, Manga grew up inOttawa.^[2][1] His father is a South African immigrant ofIndian descent, and his mother is of German and Polish descent.^[3][4] He has a B.S. ingeophysics fromMcGill University (1990), S.M. in engineering sciences fromHarvard University (1992), and Ph.D. in Earth and planetary sciences (1994) from Harvard.^[5][6]

In 1994 he was selected as aMiller 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 theMiller Institute between 2009 and 2016.

In 2003, he made Popular Science magazines second annual PopSci Brilliant 10 list^[7] and won the Geological Society of America's Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal).^[8]

A 2005MacArthur Fellow, he won an award from theNational 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."^[9]

He was elected to theNational Academy of Sciences in 2018.

His research interests includeplanetary science,fluid mechanics,hydrology,geodynamics, and physicalvolcanology.

• 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

• UC Berkeley profile

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