was Assistant Professor at Arizona State University from 1979 to 1983, and later Associate Professor and then Professor at University of Texas, Arlington from 1983 to 1990. In 1990, Self moved to the University of Hawai?i at Manoa, Honolulu as a Professor of Geology and Geophysics, before returning to the UK in 2001 as Chair in Volcanology at The Open University.