Katharine Cashman is a volcanologist who studies links between chemical and physical factors that control magma ascent, eruption, and emplacement on the Earth’s surface. She received her doctorate from The Johns Hopkins University in 1986 and accepted a faculty position at Princeton University, where she stayed for 5 years. In 1991 she moved to the University of Oregon, where she held the position of Philip H. Knight Distinguished Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Geological Sciences from 1997-2011. From 2011-2021 she was the Axa Chair of Volcanology at the University of Bristol, UK. She now holds the position Research Professor at the University of Oregon. She has studied volcanoes on six of the seven continents (and has visited volcanoes on the seventh), has explored a wide range of eruption styles (including active submarine volcanism), and has served as Public Information Scientist at Mount St. Helens and worked with the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Soufriere Hills eruption on the island of Montserrat. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Royal Society (UK) an elected member of the Academia Europaea, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.