Francis Albarede
Professor of Geochemistry ENS Lyon
Street address:
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
46 allée d'Italie
69364 Lyon Cedex 7, FRANCE
phone: (+33) 472 72 84 14
skype: francis1707
fax: (+33) 472 72 86 77
francis.albarede@ens-lyon.fr
falbarede@gmail.com
fa1@rice.edu
Affiliations:
Laboratoire de Géologie
de Lyon
Département des
Sciences de la Terre
(UMR 5276)
ENS Lyon - Université de Lyon 1 - CNRS
Department of Earth Science,
MS 126
Rice University, 6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
Fields of interest
- Trace elements,
radiogenic isotope geochemistry and geochronology
- Principles
of geochemistry
- Deep Earth
geochemistry
- Origin of
continents
- Planetary
geochemistry
- Nuclear
geochemistry
- Early
Earth
- Origin of
Life
- Stable
metal isotopes in biology and medicine
- Stable
metal isotopes in historical and archeological artifacts.
Education
Maîtrise 1968 Université de Montpellier
Thèse 3ème Cycle 1971 on Zircon U-Pb chronology (Faculté de Paris 6)
PhD in 1976 on 39Ar-40Ar geochronology in
polytectonic areas (University of Paris 7).
Positions held
1971-1977 Maître de Conférences Université de Paris 7
1977-1978 NSF Post-Doctoral Fellow, Caltech: Stable Isotopes in
granitic and metamorphic rocks
1979-1991 Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Geologie in
Nancy, France
1991-2015 Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
September 2015 Emeritus
Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Editorial Positions
1985-1993: Associate Editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
1993-2000: Chief Editor of Earth and Planetary Science Letters
1994-1996: Director of the Geochemical Society
2001-2003: President of the European Association of
Geochemistry
2000-2004: Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research
(Solid Earth)
2006-2010: Chair of the Pubications Committee of the American
Geophysical Union
2010-2012: International Secretary of the American Geophysical
Union
Books
1995 Introduction to Geochemical Modeling
(Cambridge University Press)
2001 La Géochimie (Gordon and Breach)
2003 Geochemistry: An Introduction (Cambridge University
Press, 2nd Edition: 2009)
Vanity Items
1988
Silver Medal CNRS
1994-2004 Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de
France
1996
Miller Professor of the University of California at
Berkeley
1998
Geochemistry Fellow (Europ. Ass. Geochem. & Geochem.
Soc.)
1999
Crosby Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
2000
Steinbach Visiting Scholar (Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution)
2000
Member of the Academia Europae
2000
Norman Bowen Award of the American Geophysical Union
2001
Arthur Holmes Medal of the European Union of Geosciences
2002
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
2002
Highly Cited Researcher certificate, Institute of Scientific
Information
2003
Moore Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2003
Nature Lifeline.
2004
Jaeger-Hales Lecturer Australian National University
2006
Invited Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo University
2008-2014 Wiess Visiting Professor Rice University,
Houston.
2008
VM Goldschmidt Award of the Geochemical Society.
2010
McDonnell Distinguished Fellow of the Washington
University, Saint-Louis
2008-2014 Adjunct Faculty at Rice University, Houston.
Civil
Distinctions
2006 Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
2008 Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur