Barbara Sherwood Lollar

Barbara Sherwood Lollar, CC, FRS, NAS, NAE, FRSC, FRCGS is a University Professor in Earth Sciences and Dr. Normal Keevil Chair at the University of Toronto and adjunct professor at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) Université Paris Cité. She is Past-President of the Geochemical Society and Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies (CIFAR) program Earth 4D – Subsurface Science and Exploration. In 2015 she was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and in 2019, a Fellow of the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry along with fellowship in the Royal Society UK, and the US National Academy of Sciences, and the US National Academy of Engineering.
Sherwood Lollar has served on many advisory boards including NSERC Council, the United States National Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board, and is currently 2026 Chair for the International Members Nomination Committee for the US National Academy of Sciences. She was Chair of the 2018 United States National Academy of Sciences “Strategy for Astrobiology and the Search for Life in the Universe”, Member of the National Academies Decadal Survey Committee for Planetary Sciences and Astrobiology, and Chair of the 2025 Royal Society of London report on natural hydrogen. She has served as a member of the Earth Sciences Fellows Committee for the Royal Society, London, and Earth and Environmental Resources Section of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering as well as the ENI Prize Commission.