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
- albarede@ens-lyon.fr
Fields of interest: Trace elements, radiogenic isotope geochemistry and geochronology. Igneous geochemistry. Paleoceanography. Modeling.
PhD in 1976 on 39Ar-40Ar geochronology in polytectonic areas (University of 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
Chair of Département des Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Others
1985-1993: Associate Editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
1993- Editor of Earth and Planetary Science Letters
1994-1996 'Director' of the Geochemical Society
1999-2001 Vice-President of the European Association of Geochemistry
1995 Author of Introduction to Geochemical Modeling published by Cambridge University Press.
Current interest
- Magnetic Sector ICP-MS (First commercial Plasma 54 delivered December 1994). New possibilities for radiogenic isotopes (Hf, Pb, ...) and isotope compositions of stable elements (Cu, Zn, Ge, B). A new Web site soon.
- The Geochemical Earth Reference Model initiative. Meetings in Lyon (1996) and San Diego (1998). See the Special Issue of Chemical Geology vol 145 (1998).
Distinctions
- 1988 Medaille d'Argent CNRS
- 1994-1999 Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France
- 1996 Miller Professor University of California at Berkeley
- 1998 Geochemistry Fellow (EAG/GS)
Publications
Data to download
Le franglais en une leçon et demi
Recipe for Crême Brulée
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