Francis Albarède

Professor of Geochemistry

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

46, Allee d'Italie

69364 Lyon Cedex 7, FRANCE

phone: (+33) 472 72 84 14

fax: (+33) 472 72 86 77

Fields of interest: Trace elements, radiogenic isotope geochemistry and geochronology. Igneous geochemistry. Planetary geochemistry. Modeling.
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 Post-Doctoral Fellow at Caltech: Stable Isotopes in granitic and metamorphic rocks.
1979-1991 Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Geologie in Nancy, France.
1991- Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France

Others

1985-1993: Associate Editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
1993-2000: Editor of Earth and Planetary Science Letters
1994-1996 'Director' of the Geochemical Society
2001-2003 President of the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG)
2000-2004 : Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth)
2006-2010 Chair of the Pubications Committee of the American Geophysical Union

1995 Author of Introduction to Geochemical Modeling published by Cambridge University Press.
2001 Author of La Géochimie published by Gordon and Breach

2003 Author of Geochemistry: An Introduction published by Cambridge University Press (2009 2^nd Edition)

Current interest

Magnetic Sector ICP-MS (First commercial Plasma 54 delivered December 1994, large radius Nu 1700 delivered in 2008). New possibilities for radiogenic isotopes (Hf, Pb, ...) and isotope compositions of stable elements (Cu, Zn, Ge, B).

The Geochemical Earth Reference Model (GERM) initiative. Meetings in Lyon (1996, 2003) and San Diego (1998). See the Special Issue of Chemical Geology vol 145 (1998).

Geochemistry (both low and high-temperature), Cosmochemistry, early life, biological processes, archeometry.