Francis Albarède
Professor of Geochemistry
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon
(Terre, Planètes, Environnement)
UMR CNRS 5276
46, Allée d'Italie
69364 Lyon Cedex 7, FRANCE
phone: (+33) 472 72 84 14
skype: francis1707
fax: (+33) 472 72 86 77
Fields of interest: Trace elements, radiogenic isotope
geochemistry and geochronology. Igneous geochemistry. Planetary geochemistry.
Stable metal isotopes in biology. Stable metal isotopes in historical and
archeological artefacts.
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: Chief 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
2010-2012 International
Secretary 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 2nd 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.
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
Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology Section 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
Quelques conseils sur l’écriture
scientifique (français)
Scientific writing: a few tricks by an old dog
(English)
Mean MORB and
Bulk Mantle compositions
Le franglais en une leçon et demi
Recipes (crème
brulée and others)