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EAG Council Elections

The EAG Council is made of Officer Councillor and Councillor positions. Each year, several positions become vacant.
Officer Councillors are elected by the Council and serve for various terms according to the position. Councillors are directly elected by the EAG Members and serve for three years, participate in council discussions, decisions and initiatives. Up to two Councillors can be appointed by the Council in connection with specific activities.

Elections of the EAG Council 2024

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council elections took place from 17 October to 8 November 2023. Three candidates were proposed and EAG members were invited to select two.
Participation reached 32%. We thank EAG members for their participation and are especially grateful to all candidates for agreeing to stand for elections.
Julie Prytulak and Paolo Sossi were elected.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2024:

Bernadett Bajnóczi, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences in Budapest, Hungary
Julie Prytulak, Durham University, UK
Paolo Sossi, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Election of Councillors by the EAG Council

The EAG Council elected Pallavi Anand (Open University, UK) as Councillor, Baptiste Debret (IPGP, France) as Early Career Councillor, and Béatrice Luais (CRPG Nancy, France) as Treasurer. They will start their duties in the council in January 2024.

Past Council Elections

Elections of the EAG Council 2023

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council elections took place from 18 October to 10 November 2022. Four candidates were proposed and EAG members were invited to select two.
Participation reached 37%. We thank EAG members for their participation and are especially grateful to all candidates for agreeing to stand for elections.
Raúl Fonseca and Silke Merchel were elected.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2023:

Bernadett Bajnóczi, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences in Budapest, Hungary
Raúl Fonseca, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Carlos J. Garrido, CSIC, Granada, Spain
Silke Merchel, University of Vienna, Austria

Election of Councillors by the EAG Council

The EAG Council elected Dan Frost (University of Bayreuth, Germany) as Vice-President, and Martin Whitehouse (Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden, Sweden) and Karen Hudson-Edwards (University of Essex, UK) as co-Chairs for the Goldschmidt2025 Organizing and Science Committees. They started their duties in the council in January 2023.

Elections of the EAG Council 2022

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council elections took place from 11 October to 3 November 2021. Six candidates were proposed and EAG members were invited to select three. Participation reached 41%. We thank EAG members for their participation and are especially grateful to all candidates for agreeing to stand for elections. Lena Alakangas, Ernest Chi Fru and Johanna Marin Carbonne were elected.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2022:

Lena Alakangas, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Ernest Chi Fru, Cardiff University, UK
Raúl Fonseca, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Carlos J. Garrido, CSIC, Granada, Spain
Stephan Krämer, University of Vienna, Austria
Johanna Marin Carbonne, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Election of Councillors by the EAG Council

The EAG Council elected Kate Kiseeva (University College Cork, Ireland) as EAG Secretary. Kate started her term in January 2023.

Elections of the EAG Council 2021

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council elections took place from 8 to 28 October 2020. Four candidates were proposed and EAG members were invited to select two. Participation reached 37% (1141 votes). We thank EAG members for their participation and are especially grateful to all candidates for agreeing to stand for elections. Susan Little and Olivier Namur were elected.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2021:

Ralf Halama, Keele University, UK
Susan Little, University College London, UK
Olivier Namur, University of Leuven, Belgium
Jakub Zarsky, Charles University, Czech Republic

Election of Councillors by the EAG Council

The EAG Council elected Catherine Chauvel (IPGP, France) as Vice-President, Janne Koornneef (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) as Early Career Councillor, Catherine Jeandel (CNRS Toulouse University, France) and Carmen Sanchez-Valle (University of Münster, Germany) as co-Chairs for the Goldschmidt2023 Organizing and Science Committees.
They started their duties in the council in January 2021.

Elections of the EAG Council 2020

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council elections took place from 30 October to 22 November 2019. 6 candidates were proposed and EAG members were invited to vote by selecting 3. Participation reached 37%, with 1218 votes. We thank EAG members for their participation and are especially grateful to all candidates for agreeing to stand for elections.

Heather Buss (University of Bristol), Nadia Malaspina (University of Milano-Bicocca) and Jill Sutton (University of Brest) were elected.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2020:

Heather Buss, University of Bristol, UK
Attila Demény, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Ambre Luguet, University of Bonn, Germany
Nadia Malaspina, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Philip Pogge von Strandmann, University College London and Birkbeck, UK
Jill Sutton, University of Brest, France

Elections of the EAG Council 2019

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council elections took place from 16 October until 7 November 2018. 4 candidates were proposed and EAG members were invited to vote by selecting 2. Participation reached 36%, with 1300 votes. We thank EAG members for their participation. Kate Kiseeva, University College Cork, Ireland, and Alberto Vitale Brovarone, University of Torino, Italy & CNRS, France were elected and officially joined the EAG Council in January 2019. We are very grateful to all candidates for agreeing to stand for these elections.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2019:

Itay Halevy, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Christian Hallman, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry & University of Bremen, Germany
Kate Kiseeva, University College Cork, Ireland
Alberto Vitale Brovarone, University of Torino, Italy & CNRS, France

Election of Councillors by the EAG Council

The Council has elected two additional councillors in connection with the organisation of Goldschmidt2021.
Dan Frost, University of Bayreuth, Germany will serve the council as Goldschmidt Officer and co-chair for the Goldschmit2021 Organising and Science Committees.
Maud Boyet, University Clermont-Auvergne, France, will serve as co-chair for the Goldschmit2021 Organising and Science Committees.
Both Dan and Maud will begin their term in 2019.

In addition, Mihály Pósfai, who joined the EAG Council in 2018, has been elected to serve as EAG Secretary from 2019.

Elections of the EAG Council 2018

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council elections took place from Wednesday 11 October until Wednesday 8 November. 4 candidates were proposed and EAG members were invited to vote by selecting 2. Participation reached 42%, the highest to date, with 1564 votes.
Caroline Peacock (University of Leeds, UK) and Encarnación Ruiz Agudo (University of Granada, Spain) were elected.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2018:

Riccardo Avanzinelli, University of Florence, Italy
Horst Marschall, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Caroline Peacock, University of Leeds, UK
Encarnacion Ruiz-Agudo, University of Granada, Spain

Election of Councillors by the EAG Council

The Council elected three additional councillors: Sami Mikhail (University of St Andrews, UK) as the new Early Career Councillor, Mihály Pósfai (University of Pannonia, Hungary) to enhance representation of Eastern Europe within the Council and Derek Vance (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) as Vice-President from 2019.

Sami Mikhail was elected as the new Early Career Councillor and will also act as Student Program Leader for Goldschmidt2019 in Barcelona.
Sami is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK. Prior to this he spent two years as a Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, followed by a couple of postdoc positions at the Universities of Bristol and Edinburgh, UK. His research is driven by the desire to understand how the interior workings of a planet influences its surface environment, and how this relates to long-term habitability. To achieve this he employs light volatile-element stable isotope data (C-N-O-Noble gases) from natural samples and complements these data with both high-pressure/temperature experiments and theoretical models. These data are presently being applied to study diamond-formation in Earth’s mantle, high-temperature nitrogen geochemistry, and the fundamental relationships between mantle processes and atmospheric chemistry on Earth, Mars and Venus.

Mihály Pósfai was elected to enhance representation of Eastern Europe within the Council.
Mihály is a professor of environmental science at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém, Hungary. He obtained his PhD at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, then continued as a postdoc at Arizona State University, specializing in transmission electron microscope studies of nanoscale phenomena related to environmental mineralogy problems. His current research interests include biomineralization and biomimetic synthesis of magnetic nanostructures, the nucleation of carbonate minerals in freshwater ecosystems, and the properties and climate effects of individual atmospheric particles.

Derek Vance was elected to join the council as he will be EAG Vice-President from 2019, and will act as co-chair for the Goldschmidt meeting in Barcelona in 2019.
Derek is Professor of Geochemistry in the Department of Earth Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. In the past he has worked on mantle geochemistry and has used geochronology and metamorphic petrology to understand mountain belts such as the Alps and Himalaya. For the past 10-15 years, however, he has focussed on understanding the geochemistry of the surface Earth. This has involved the quantification of the global cycles of trace elements through investigations of the inputs to the dissolved pool of the oceans, and outputs to various kinds of sediments. An important long-term objective is to use this effort, targeted at understanding modern budgets, to understand the chemical evolution of the surface Earth in the past.
Derek obtained his Ph.D. in geochemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has previously served in various capacities with the Geochemical Society. He is currently a co-editor in chief for Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and has acted as an editor of Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems and as an Associate Editor for Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Elections of the EAG Council 2017

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council Elections 2017 took place from 3 October until 31 October 2016. 6 candidates were proposed and EAG Members were invited to vote by selecting 3. Participation reached 39% with 1152 votes.
Rizlan Bernier-Latmani (EPFL, Switzerland), Carsten Münker (University of Cologne, Germany) and Emily Pope (University of Copenhagen) were elected.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2017:

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, EPFL, Switzerland
Sami Mikhail, University of St Andrews, UK
Carsten Münker, University of Cologne, Germany
Emily Pope, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jan Wiederhold, University of Vienna, Austria
Jutta Zipfel, Senckenberg Research Institute, Germany

Election of Councillors by the EAG Council

In September 2016, the Council elected Sigurður Reynir Gíslason as EAG Vice-President, starting in January 2017.

Sigurður (Siggi) Reynir Gíslason received his PhD in geochemistry from the Johns Hopkins University, under the supervision of Hans P. Eugster. He is a Research Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland. He is the chairman of CarbFix, the initiative to store carbon in basaltic rocks. Siggi’s major scientific contributions are: 1) measurement of the dissolution rates and dissolution mechanisms of volcanic glasses as a function of glass composition, aqueous solution composition and temperature, 2) field and laboratory experiments related to mineral storage of CO₂ in basaltic rocks, 3) quantifying the chemical/physical erosion rates of basaltic terrains and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and 4) measuring the environmental effects of volcanic eruptions.

Elections of the EAG Council 2016

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council Elections 2016 took place from from 27 October until 11 November 2015. 1081 votes were cast by EAG members, representing a turnout of 37%.
Donald E. Canfield (University of Southern Denmark), Kirsten Küsel (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) and Helen Williams (Durham University, UK) were elected.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2016:

Don Canfield, University of Southern Denmark
Kirsten Küsel, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Frédéric Moynier, IPGP & University of Paris Diderot France
Sophie Opfergelt, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Ronny Schönberg, University of Tübingen, Germany
Helen Williams, Durham University, UK

Election of Councillors by the EAG Council

The EAG Council re-elected Andreas Kappler (University of Tübingen, Germany) as EAG Secretary.
Andreas Kappler is currently professor of Geomicrobiology at the Center for Applied Geosciences of the University of Tübingen in Germany. He received his PhD in 2000 from University of Konstanz (Germany) in Microbiology and had postdoc positions at the ETH Zürich/EAWAG (2000-2002) in Environmental Chemistry and at the California Institute of Technology (2002-2004) in Geobiology.
Andreas Kappler is Associate Editor of PALAIOS and on the editorial board of GEOBIOLOGY.
His main area of interest focuses on iron geomicrobiology, cell-mineral interactions, and degradation and transformation of pollutants.

Elections of the EAG Council 2015

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council Elections 2015 took place from from 13 October until 27 October 2014. 781 votes were cast by EAG members, representing a turnout of 30%. Sigurður Reynir Gíslason (University of Iceland), Andreas Pack (University of Göttingen) and Dominik Weiss (Imperial College London) were elected.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2015:

Thilo Behrends, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Sigurður Reynir Gíslason, University of Iceland
Andreas Pack, University of Göttingen, Germany
Mihály Pósfai, University of Pannonia, Hungary
Simon Poulton, University of Leeds, UK
Dominik Weiss, Imperial College London, UK

Election of Councillors by the EAG Council

The council elected Bernard Marty (CRPG Nancy) as Vice-President, Antje Boetius (HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology) as a new Goldschmidt Officer and Stefanie Lutz (University of Leeds) as the first Early Career Councillor.

Elections of the EAG Council 2014

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council Elections 2014 took place from Monday 21 October until Monday 4 November 2013. 1040 votes were cast by EAG members, representing a turnout of 38%. Karim Benzerara and Ruben Kretzschmar were elected.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2014:

Karim Benzerara, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Dominik Hezel, University of Cologne, Germany
Hans Keppler, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Ruben Kretzschmar, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Elections of the EAG Council 2013

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council Elections 2014 took place from Monday 29 October until Monday 12 November 2012. 449 votes were cast by EAG members, representing a turnout of 26%. Britta Planer-Friedrich (University of Bayreuth, Germany), Maria Schönbächler (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) and Nathalie Vigier (CRPG Nancy, France) were elected.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2013:

High-Temperature Geochemistry

John Rudge, University of Cambridge, UK
Maria Schönbächler, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Low-Temperature Geochemistry

Paul Dennis, University of East Anglia, UK
Nathalie Vigier, CRPG Nancy, France

Biogeochemistry

Karim Benzerara, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Britta Planer-Friedrich, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Elections of the EAG Council 2012

Election of Councillors by EAG Members

The Council Elections 2012 took place from Monday 17 October until Monday 31 October 2011. 465 votes were cast by EAG members, representing a turnout of 30%. Michael Bau (Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany), Vinciane Debaille (University of Brussels, Belgium) and Amaelle Landais (CNRS Paris, France) were elected.

Candidates for the elections of the EAG Council 2012:

Michael Bau, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Michael Böttcher, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde and EMA University of Greifswald, Germany
Vincianne Debaille, University of Brussels, Belgium
Martin Elsner, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
Albert Galy, University of Cambridge, UK
Amaelle Landais, CNRS Paris, France
Stefano Poli, University of Milan, Italy

Julie Prytulak, Durham University, UK

Biography

Julie Prytulak is an isotope geochemist who started her career in Canada, obtaining an undergraduate degree from Carleton University. She then undertook a Masters degree at Washington State University, USA, followed by a PhD at the University of Bristol, UK. She held postdoctoral fellowships at Oxford University and Imperial College London, and joined Imperial as permanent staff in 2011. Julie moved to Durham University in 2018, where she is now a Professor of Geochemistry. Her research applies both stable and radiogenic isotopes to wide ranging topics in Earth Science; she received the 2017 EAG Houtermans award for exceptional contributions to geochemistry. Her current interests focus on applications of metal stable isotopes ranging from element cycling at subduction zones to tracking anthropogenic inputs through the surface environment.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

I am strongly committed to affecting tangible, positive progress through community service. Scientifically, there is a balance to be struck between raising the profile of geochemical research as it directly benefits society, with maintaining the value and pursuit of discovery science. EAG is an overwhelmingly positive influence in supporting and amplifying voices within the geochemistry community. The role of the EAG council is vital in building upon past success and remaining an active and relevant part of the global geochemical community. I was an elected secretary for the VGP Section of AGU (2020-2023). As an EAG council member, I would bring my experience and enthusiasm for geochemistry and collaborative committee work, with particular emphasis on enabling opportunities for those from historically underrepresented countries and regions.

Paolo Sossi, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Biography

Paolo is currently Assistant Professor for Experimental Planetology at ETH Zürich. His research interests lie in understanding the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets. He combines experimental, isotopic, spectroscopic and theoretical approaches to examine the chemical and physical properties of minerals, melts and gases, in order to shed light on the growth and evolution of planets from dust grains into complex bodies. Paolo obtained his Ph.D. in 2015 from the Australian National University, before undertaking a four-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. He joined ETH in 2019 as an SNSF Ambizione Fellow, and, in 2022, was awarded an ERC Starting Grant and an SNSF Eccellenza Professorship. In 2021, Paolo received the EAG Houtermans Medal for early career contributions to geochemistry.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

A tree is only as healthy as the roots that nourish it. My hope is that, by engaging in meaningful and sustained interaction with the wider geochemical community, we can create stronger roots. In practice, this involves providing equal opportunities and clear pathways for young researchers; not only in access to laboratory and teaching resources, but also in a better understanding of the research landscape and opportunities for growth. If elected, I would organise tutorials on topics such as grant writing, coding, seminars, and the peer review process, with a view to improving the skills and employability of young, European researchers (including Ph.D. students). I hope that my experience across numerous countries and disciplines can foster interdisciplinary research links, whilst building upon the culture of sharing that underpins our community.

Bernadett Bajnóczi, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences in Budapest, Hungary

Biography

Bernadett is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. She graduated as geologist, and received her PhD in economic geology in 2004 from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She is currently an archaeological materials scientist and investigates archaeological artefacts and objects of historic value (cultural heritage). Her research focuses on production technology and (raw material) provenance of glazed ceramics, non-ferrous metals and vitreous objects using mineralogical, petrographic and geochemical analytical methods and approach. She is involved in several national projects investigating various artefacts and objects of art from the Carpathian Basin ranging from the prehistory to the Modern Age.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

My motivation to serve as an EAG councillor is to represent East-Central Europe within the Council. This would include, among others, promotion of organization of local workshops supported by EAG and helping young scientists from the region by spreading information about the possibilities EAG offers them to help their education, research and carrier. Additionally, as a researcher engaged in an interdisciplinary field between natural and human sciences, my involvement would enhance the diversity of the geochemical community and could be a link towards a larger number of scientists investigating our past.

Pallavi Anand

EAG Councillor

Pallavi Anand is a senior Lecturer in ocean biogeochemistry and palaeoclimatologist at the Open University, UK. She received her PhD in biogeochemistry in 2002 from the University of Cambridge (UK) followed by postdoctoral positions at University of Cambridge, Vrije Universiteit (Netherlands) and the Open University (UK) where she was appointed as a Lecturer in 2009. Her research interests span across disciplines including development and application of biogeochemical tools (trace elements and stable and radiogenic isotopes) in palaeoclimate reconstructions, ecosystem conservation and diversity and inclusion. She has served as editorial board member of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology and as panel member of the UK funding agency (Natural Environment Research Council).

Baptiste Debret

EAG Early Career Councillor

Baptiste Debret is a permanent researcher employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and working at the Université de Paris Cité - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP). His research is highly multidisciplinary and spans the fields of geology, metamorphic petrology and novel stable isotope geochemistry. He studies natural samples collected at mid-oceanic ridges (e.g., Rainbow hydrothermal site), subduction (e.g., Mariana forearc) and collision zones (Alpine and Himalayan mountain ranges) to track redox transfers associated with (de)serpentinization reactions.

Baptiste Debret completed his PhD in metamorphic petrology at the Laboratoire Magmas & Volcans (France) in 2013. Subsequently, he held a postdoctoral research associate position in England, first at Durham University and then at the University of Cambridge, until April 2017. He then moved to the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) to take up a 3-year fellowship postdoctoral position funded by the “Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique” until October 2019, when he took up his current position at the French CNRS.

Baptiste is the EAG Early Career Councillor, i.e. the voice of early career scientists within the EAG Council. If you have suggestions for improvements or ideas that we could implement to further support early career scientists, you can contact him via the EAG Office (office@eag.eu.com).

Béatrice Luais

EAG Treasurer

Béatrice Luais is a CNRS research scientist at the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG), Nancy (France). She is an isotope geochemist with particular emphasis on non-conventional heavy stable isotopes.

She obtained her PhD from the University of Montpellier (France) on the topic of subduction-related volcanism. She then joined the Open University (UK) as a post-doctoral researcher where she studied processes involved in the formation of the Archaean crust, before integrating the CNRS at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS, France). She developed isotopic measurements using MC-ICP-MS techniques that she applied to radiogenic isotopes on high-pressure metamorphic crust and high-resolution magmatism, and to non-conventional heavy stable isotopes in the fields of meteorites, deep Earth and critical metal deposits.

She is currently leading a research group focused on the cosmo-geochemistry of germanium and its isotopes to understand thermodynamic conditions of core-mantle segregation, volatile element behaviour during planetary mantle evolution, and processes related to impacts.

Raúl Fonseca, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Biography

Raúl Fonseca is a Professor of Experimental Petrology and Geochemistry in the Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics at the Ruhr-University Bochum. He obtained a PhD in Experimental Petrochemistry from the Australian National University (Australia) in 2007 and worked as an Assistant Professor in Petrology at the University of Bonn (Germany, from 2007 to 2017), and was a Heisenberg Fellow at the University of Köln between 2018 and 2019. He is an Experimental Petrologist investigating trace element and stable isotope behaviour during high-temperature processes occurring in the interior of terrestrial planets.
His current work focuses on the effect that changing redox conditions have on stable Ti isotope fractionation during planetary differentiation events.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

Geochemistry, like many other Earth Science disciplines and beyond, loses talented young scientists every year who are increasingly frustrated by poor job security, uncertainty, and in many cases, lack of representation. If elected I hope to work with my colleagues to find ways to tackle these issues head on and work towards creating a thriving geochemical community that serves as an example to follow. Geochemistry is one of the most versatile disciplines in Earth Sciences, and this should be reflected in a diverse community that has the instruments to address the many challenges we face. The EAG is a perfect platform in which to address these problems and enact meaningful change, and I would be grateful for the opportunity to serve as EAG Councillor.

Silke Merchel, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria

Biography

Silke is addicted to “big machines” like particle accelerators, neutron sources and synchrotron facilities for analytical purposes. She has always been a research nomad - finding herself the most interesting research topics, excellent laboratory working opportunities and nicest colleagues. She worked, e.g., at Forschungszentrum Jülich, University of Cologne, Purdue University, Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing Berlin, CEREGE Aix-en-Provence, Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, Australian National University and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.

Silke is currently working at the VERA (Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator) facility of the University of Vienna to improve and facilitate the chemical separation of long-lived radionuclides. The resulting data, measured by accelerator mass spectrometry, gives quantitative insights into Earth and Planetary Research topics like astrophysics, climate and ocean sciences, cosmochemistry and geomorphology.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

From the scientific perspective, I like to promote the excellent analytical infrastructures in Europe and abroad. Although, large-scale facilities have a great potential for solving problems at the research frontiers of modern geochemistry, their use is often hampered by a reputation of being complicated, expensive and not-easily accessible. My ambition is to empower the EAG community with improved access to these sophisticated facilities and analytical methods to better address societally highly relevant challenges on Earth and in the environment. Educating the public on the value of these projects is a parallel goal. As a trained chemist, I have worked my whole scientific life in a true interdisciplinary environment, very often embodying the “missing link” between researchers from geoscience and physics, hence, I hope I am well-prepared to serve the EAG.

Bernadett Bajnóczi, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences in Budapest, Hungary

Biography

Motivation for serving the EAG council

Carlos J. Garrido, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Spain

Biography

Carlos Garrido is a research scientist working at the Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, a Spanish Research Council and University of Granada research centre in Granada, Spain. He received his doctorate from the University of Granada and was a postdoctoral fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA) and Géosciences Montpellier (France). He investigates the processes involved in the formation and differentiation of the Earth’s oceanic and continental lithospheres, their interaction with the hydrosphere --and associated biogeochemical cycles-- and the elemental cycles involved in subduction the hydrated lithosphere. His expertise is quite transdisciplinary, and combines field geology, geochemistry, petrology, thermodynamics and numerical modelling. He has served for many years the geochemical community as a member in EGU committees, and the editorial board in leading Earth Science journals.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

I am convinced that the key to promoting our science and careers in geochemistry is to effectively convey its value and impact to Society and scientists from other disciplines. Making decision-makers, Society and other scientists understand the value of geochemistry will greatly influence funding, visibility, and increase employability opportunities of our early-career scientists. As a councillor, I will strengthen outreach activities and develop new resources to empower our community skills in engaging with different audiences and exploring new inter and transdisciplinary collaboration venues with other research communities. I will foster early career support, gender equality, and representativeness minorities as crucial steps for a more equitable EAG, and partnerships with geochemical communities from emerging countries –often with limited funding—to ease their participation in EAG activities.

Dan Frost

EAG Vice-President

Dan Frost is Professor for Experimental Geosciences at the Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics, (Bayerisches Geoinstitut), University of Bayreuth, Germany. His research focuses on chemical and physical processes occurring in the deep interior of the Earth. Using mainly experimental methods he studies, for example, the cycling of volatile elements inside the Earth and mineral physical properties of the mantle. He uses these properties to interpret observations of the deep mantle made by seismologists. In recent years he has also used experimental techniques to place constraints on the processes of terrestrial accretion and core formation and the evolution of the redox state of the Earth’s interior.

Dan received his PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Bristol and came to the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in 1997 after a two year post doc at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Intuition of Washington, USA. He was elected by the EAG Council at the end of 2018 to serve as Goldschmidt Officer and co-chair for the Goldschmit2021 Organising and Science Committees, and was an EAG council member from 2009 to 2014. He served as the Chair of the Executive Committee for Elements Magazine from 2015 until 2021, where he also represents the EAG.

Martin Whitehouse

EAG Goldschmidt Officer

Martin Whitehouse is a professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. He obtained his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1987 and followed this with postdoctoral positions at USGS, Menlo Park, Ca. and the University of Oslo, returning to a research position in Oxford in 1990. Since arriving at the museum in 1996, he has developed and applied high-spatial resolution methods with large-geometry secondary ion mass spectrometry and has directed the NordSIMS facility since 2000. His primary research interest is in the application of radiogenic isotopes and geochronology to the evolution of the Earth’s earliest continental crust. In addition to crustal evolution, his research encompasses studies of planetary evolution, Gondwanan tectonics, the behaviour of geochronometers during metamorphism, and early Earth surface environments and biogenicity. He is currently chair of the IUGS Precryogenian Stratigraphy sub-commission and an associate editor of Precambrian Research.

As Goldschmidt Officer, Martin will be co-chairing the Goldschmidt2025 Organizing and Science Committees.

Karen Hudson-Edwards

EAG Councillor, co-Chair of the Goldschmidt2025 Organizing and Science Committees

Karen is Professor in Sustainable Mining at the Camborne School of Mines and Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter, UK. She obtained her PhD at the University of Manchester in 1996, and worked as Lecturer to Professor at Birkbeck, University of London for 20 years before moving to the University of Exeter. She is an environmental geochemist and mineralogist working in the fields of mine waste characterisation and remediation, sustainable resource extraction, mining and circular economy and critical raw materials. She was a member of the Science Committee for Goldschmidt 2017 and 2021 and a Theme Chair for Goldschmidt 2019 and 2020. Currently she is editor of GeoHealth and specialty chief editor of Frontiers in Geochemistry: Mineral Geochemistry.

In her role within EAG, Karen will be co-chairing the Goldschmidt2025 Organizing and Science Committees with Martin Whitehouse.

Lena Alakangas, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Biography

Lena Alakangas is Professor of Applied Geochemistry at the Department of Social, Environmental and Natural Resource Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. She received her doctorate in 2006. She is an environmental geochemist with research that focuses on the understanding of geochemical processes in natural environments and environments that have been affected by human activities such as mining. The research also includes evaluation and development of preventive methods to reduce environmental impact. She is currently head of the research subject Applied Geochemistry, which includes research in analytical chemistry, isotope geochemistry and environmental forensics, in order to trace the source of pollutants and geochemical processes. She works closely with the extractive industry and infrastructure companies.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

I am interested in promoting geochemical research related to the green transition of mining and society, as well as adaptation to climate change. Sweden is facing a huge challenge to recruit and train competence in geochemistry related to this. My long experience of applied geochemistry and collaboration with industrial partners can help strengthen the network and strengthen relations in Europe. EAG and Goldschmidt are good platforms for exchanging research and developing new ideas, but also for increased mobility and networks of young researchers and seniors.

Ernest Chi Fru, Cardiff University, UK

Biography

Ernest is a geomicrobiologist/biogeochemist interested in the biogeochemical evolution of the geobiosphere through Earth history. He was born in anglophone Cameroon, West Africa and later moved to Sweden where he earned a PhD in Geomicrobiology at Gothenburg University in 2006. Subsequent postdoctoral stints took Ernest to the University of East Anglia, Newcastle University and University of Windsor, Canada. In 2011, Ernest took up an Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship position at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, from where he relocated to Stockholm University with an ERC starting grant in 2013. Since 2016, Ernest is a senior lecturer in geomicrobiology/biogeochemistry in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

Barriers must be broken in order to gain major steps in bringing about positive change. I became a biogeochemist by chance, not by intention—because the geosciences are not a valued subject in my community as is for example medicine and engineering. This is particularly exacerbated by the lack of role models to promote the geosciences in minority communities. As a visible face in the EAG community, I intend to popularize the geosciences to communities that have traditionally been excluded from this discipline for one reason or the other.

Johanna Marin Carbonne, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Biography

Johanna Marin-Carbonne is an assistant Professor in stable isotope geochemistry at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). She is a geological engineer by training and received a PhD in geosciences in 2009 from the University of Lorraine (France). She was a post-doctoral fellow first at the University of Los Angeles California, (USA) and then at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris (France). She was appointed assistant professor in 2014 at the University Jean Monnet (St Etienne, France) and in 2018 she joined the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Her research interests rely on better constraining the environmental conditions of the Early Earth, especially the redox conditions as well as the link between these conditions and the evolution of microbial life. Her research uses high spatial resolution method of stable isotope geochemistry associated with mineralogical and petrographic tools to better understand what kind of metabolic biosignatures can be preserved in the geological rock record.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

I have benefited greatly from various EAG activities since undertaking my PhD and will be happy to contribute and to help. In 2020, I joined the Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee of the EAG and was thrilled by the energy and initiative of this group in promoting a more inclusive community. I have learned and I am still learning a lot. If elected as a councillor, I will be keen to continue this work and to promote various initiatives aimed towards better inclusion of all kinds of geoscientist (through networking, exchange and mentoring programs, team awards etc..) and especially those aimed at helping early career researchers. The last two years have been especially difficult for early career researchers and have strongly highlighted the inequity that exists among researchers, due to personal life, mental health, ethnicity, immigrant status and sexual orientation among other factors. As a scientific community, we should dedicate time to thinking about these issues and strive to change all together so that we can build a more welcoming, inclusive, open and sustainable future for all geochemists.

Raúl Fonseca, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Biography

Motivation for serving the EAG council

Having only recently been fortunate to get a permanent academic position, I am keenly aware of the challenges that young scientists face in succeeding in modern academia. Poor job security, representation, and diversity are issues that, despite seeing some improvement in recent years, still need to be addressed. Plenty of work still needs to be done to offer avenues for skilled young scientist from diverse backgrounds to succeed, and I would relish the opportunity to help my colleagues. As such, I am honoured for the chance to serve in the EAG council and represent Geochemists in Europe and abroad, and help my colleagues address these issues head on.

Carlos J. Garrido, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Spain

Biography

Carlos J. Garrido is a research scientist at the Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, a Spanish Research Council research centre in Granada, Spain. He received his doctorate from the University of Granada and was a postdoctoral fellow at WHOI (USA) and Géosciences Montpellier (France). He investigates the processes involved in the formation and differentiation of the Earth’s oceanic and continental lithospheres, their interaction with the hydrosphere --and associated biogeochemical cycles-- and the elemental cycles involved in subduction the hydrated lithosphere. He has an increasing interest in environmental geochemistry. His expertise is quite transdisciplinary, combining field geology, tectonics, geochemistry, petrology, geochronology, thermodynamics and numerical modelling. He has served for many years the geochemical community as a panel member of the European Research Council, EUG committees, and the editorial board of leading journals.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

I am convinced that the key to promoting our science and careers in geochemistry is to effectively convey its value and impact to Society and scientists from other disciplines. Showing decision-makers, Society and other scientists the value of geochemistry will greatly impact funding and visibility, and increase future employability opportunities for early-career scientists. As a councillor, I will strengthen outreach activities and develop new resources to empower our community skills in engaging with different audiences and exploring new inter and transdisciplinary collaboration venues with other research communities. I will foster early career support, gender equality, and representativeness of East European countries and minorities as crucial steps for a more equitable EAG, and partnerships with geochemical communities from emerging countries –often with limited funding—to ease their participation in EAG activities.

Stephan Krämer, University of Vienna, Austria

Biography

Stephan Kraemer is the head of the Department of Environmental Geosciences at the University of Vienna. He is a low temperature geochemist interested in molecular scale bio-mineral interactions that play a key role in processes such as contaminant transport or plant and bacterial nutrient acquisition in soils, ground- and surface water and marine systems. A particular focus is the reactivity of biogenic molecules including ligands, reductants, proteins and nucleic acids at mineral surfaces. His latest research interests include interactions of DNA with mineral phases in the context of long-term eDNA and aDNA preservation. After studying Earth Sciences at Ruhr Universität Bochum, he obtained his PhD in 1997 under the guidance of Prof. Janet Hering (CALTECH) and held positions at UC Berkeley and ETH-Zürich before moving to Vienna in 2006.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

Geochemistry has always been a discipline with a healthy disregard for disciplinary boundaries, even in its founding idea to apply fundamental chemical concepts to the Earth sciences. As EAG councillor, I will help the society in its efforts to be a platform for all geochemical research, including more traditional topics and those that venture far beyond established comfort zones. Key tools for realizing this are the Goldschmidt conferences and the workshops supported by EAG. These meetings are laboratories of thought, where scientists from various fields interact and germinate exciting new ideas. Also, I will work towards further strengthening the role of these meetings to provide networking opportunities, support, mentoring and visibility for young scientists from all over the world - they are going to be the future of geochemistry.

Kate Kiseeva

EAG Secretary

Kate Kiseeva, University College Cork, Ireland is a Lecturer in Geochemistry at the University College Cork, Ireland. She obtained her undergraduate degree (2007) in petrology and geochemistry from the Mining Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. In 2012 she received her PhD in experimental petrology from the Australian National University and for the following six years she worked as a postdoctoral researcher and later as a NERC research fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research interests focus on two topics: the behaviour of chalcophile elements in mantle processes and during the Earth’s accretion and differentiation, and high-pressure mantle geochemistry, metasomatism in the cratonic mantle and upper- and lower-mantle inclusions in diamonds.

Susan Little, University College London, UK

Biography

Susan is a Lecturer and NERC independent research fellow at University College London. She is an isotope geochemist, interested in developing novel tracers of carbon cycling in the past and present ocean. She completed her PhD at the University of Bristol in 2013, in the Bristol Isotope Group, before spending two years at ETH Zürich as a postdoctoral researcher. Since 2015 she has been based in London as a research fellow, first in the MAGIC group at Imperial College London, before moving to UCL in 2019. Her research utilises the isotopes of various bioessential and redox sensitive trace metals (including copper, zinc, cadmium, nickel), unlocking their potential to reconstruct the co-evolution of oxygen and life on Earth.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

Like many geochemists, the Goldschmidt conference has played a major role in my scientific development. At Goldschmidt, all the great strengths of the geochemistry community are on display: ground-breaking science, active social and professional networking, mentoring of the next generation. It’s also at Goldschmidt that some areas of improvement have been laid bare: a lack of diversity in invited speakers, for example, or in award winners. I am very conscious of my own privilege, attending Goldschmidt on so many occasions. If elected to the EAG council at this pivotal time, I will help the society continue its efforts to improve representation, as well as navigate the opportunities and challenges presented by the climate emergency in a post-Covid world.

Olivier Namur, University of Leuven, Belgium

Biography

Olivier Namur is an assistant professor of Petrology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the KU Leuven (Belgium). He obtained a PhD in Geology from the University of Liege (Belgium) in 2011 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at several institutes (University of Cambridge, University of Hannover, University of Liege) between 2011 and 2017. He is an igneous petrologist investigating crustal formation on Earth and other terrestrial planets. His work is grounded in field observation, supplemented by mineralogical and geochemical analysis backed up with thermodynamical calculations and experimental petrology. He currently leads a research group investigating the effect of crustal thickness on the composition and mineralogy of basaltic lavas erupting from presently active volcanoes. He is also closely involved in the ESA BepiColombo mission to Mercury.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

I wish to serve on the EAG council because I have reached the career stage at which I want to contribute to promoting research internationally, particularly within Europe. Having studied at a small university, and now supervising a group of young researchers from Europe and developing countries, I would like to contribute to facilitating access for early career scientists and people belonging to minority communities to meetings and workshops: improved accessibility will increase the exchange of ideas, help develop scientific networks and enhance the worldwide recognition of the work of this demographic. Furthermore, my extensive research experience on igneous rocks, ore deposits and planetary sciences, together with my international background, provides me with the insights and experience to strengthen the relations between all branches of the Earth Sciences community.

Ralf Halama, Keele University, UK

Biography

Ralf Halama is a lecturer in igneous and metamorphic petrology at the University of Keele (UK). He received a Diplom in geology from the University of Mainz in 2000 and his doctoral degree from the University of Tübingen in 2003 with a thesis about igneous rocks from the Gardar Province, Greenland. Ralf held postdoctoral positions at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, the University of Maryland (USA) as Feodor-Lynen research fellow, and the Universities of Kiel and Potsdam. His research interests include geochemical cycling in subduction zones with a focus on the application of novel stable isotope systems, and the formation of carbonatites and alkaline igneous rocks. Ralf currently serves as treasurer for the Metamorphic Studies Group and is associate editor for Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

I am honoured to be considered as candidate for the EAG council and motivated to contribute to the EAG’s activities on promoting geochemistry internationally. Whether through the participation at Goldschmidt Conferences or the diverse publications, as a geochemist, I greatly benefit from the EAG’s work, and I will bring enthusiasm and experiences from having worked in different European countries to help the EAG in its endeavours. EAG initiatives for the support of early career researchers, awards, publications and public outreach are important for our geochemical community and for making geochemistry accessible to the general public. I look forward to be involved in strengthening the collaboration between European geochemists. If elected, improving access to analytical and experimental facilities for geochemists across Europe will be one of my priorities.

Jakub Zarsky, Charles University, Czech Republic

Biography

Jakub studied biology and ecology at the University of South Bohemia (CZ), Charles University (CZ) and the University of Innsbruck (A). He is involved in the research of various aspects of microbial processes in glaciated catchments in the High Arctic since 2009. Since 2015, he has been working as a member of CryoEco.eu team at the Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Prague, where he mainly focuses on subglacial zone of the Greenland ice sheet as well as some groups of organisms inhabiting the glacial surfaces.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

I recently became involved in reviewing larger number of research projects and this experience led me to a conclusion that knowing your subject of study is of a similar importance as knowing who else is working in it. I would see my service in the council as an opportunity to establish new contacts in the geoscience community while offering my expertise as a primarily microbial ecologist interested in large-scale processes.

Catherine Chauvel

EAG President

Catherine Chauvel is a CNRS Directrice de Recherche at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France. Her research focusses on high temperature geochemistry with special emphasis on mantle geochemistry. She uses trace element and radiogenic isotopes to understand the source of magmas, the evolution of the mantle and continental crust over Earth history and the impact of geochemical fractionation during sediment formation on the overall budget of subduction zones. Her present research concentrates on the origin of magmas formed deep in the mantle and on the origin of the material constituting their mantle source.

Catherine Chauvel obtained her PhD in geochemistry at the University of Rennes, France. She has previously served as treasurer of the European Association of Geochemistry, board member of the Geochemical Society and president of the VGP section of the AGU. She is presently member of the advisory board of Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research and editor of a volume of the next Treatise of Geochemistry. In the past, she has been member of the editorial board of Chemical Geology, editor in chief of Chemical Geology and associate editor of Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. She also serves in various committees evaluating research in international organisations or foreign universities.

Janne Koornneef

EAG Early Career Councillor

Janne Koornneef is associate professor at the Earth Science Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She completed her PhD at ETH-Zurich in 2011 and had a postdoc position at VU Amsterdam until 2016. Her research focusses on the geochemical evolution of Earth’s mantle and the exchange of elements between surficial and deep reservoirs as a result of tectonic processes acting over billions of years. She specialises in the analyses of radiogenic isotopes (Sr-Nd-Pb) in small geological samples such as olivine-hosted melt inclusions or mineral inclusions in diamonds.

Janne is the EAG Early Career Councillor, i.e. the voice of early career scientists within the EAG Council. If you have suggestions for improvements or ideas that we could implement to further support early career scientists, you can contact her via the EAG Office (office@eag.eu.com).

Catherine Jeandel

EAG Goldschmidt Officer

As an oceanographer and marine geochemist, Catherine's main scientific researches are focused on quantifying the fluxes and processes that govern the chemical state of the ocean. Since 1987 she has been among the pioneers in developing trace element and isotope analysis methods for seawater and marine particles. These analytical advances have led to important advances in understanding 1) Rare Earth Element concentrations and neodymium isotopes that trace water mass circulation and mixing, dissolved-particulate processes, continent-ocean exchange 2) barium concentrations and their use as a tracer of water masses and productivity 3) Thorium and protactinium isotopes as tracers of deep water ventilation, scavenging and particulate fluxes. Because one single tracer is not sufficient enough to constrain complex natural systems, she advocates multi-tracer and multi-disciplinary approaches to resolve natural processes, strategy of the international GEOTRACES program which she is pioneer of.

Author or co-author of more than 130 peer reviewed papers, Catherine wrote with M. Roy Barman a book dedicated to marine geochemistry (Oxford Univ. Press) and co-edited 3 books “Le Climat à découvert”, “L’énergie à Découvert” and "L’eau à Découvert" (CNRS eds.). As President of the Academic Council of the Federal University of Toulouse (UFT), she is deeply involved in stimulating interdisciplinary researches, since they are keys to deal with the complexity of the questions raised by our societies in transition.

As Goldschmidt Officer, Catherine will be co-chairing the Goldschmidt2023 Organizing and Science Committees.

Carmen Sanchez-Valle

EAG Councillor, co-Chair of the Goldschmidt2023 Organizing and Science Committees

Carmen Sanchez-Valle is a Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Münster, Germany. She obtained her PhD at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon in 2003. Carmen’s research covers a broad range of topics in experimental (fluids) geochemistry, high pressure mineralogy and planetology. She investigates experimentally the physical and chemical status of Earth’s materials to understand processes in deep planetary interiors. A particular focus of her research is the role of fluids in mass transfer processes in subduction zones, which she addresses through a combination of experimental studies of fluid-rock interactions and thermodynamic modelling. Most recent research centers around the formation of crustal ore deposits, the dynamics of volcanic eruptions, the volatile cycles in the solid Earth and the magnetic state of the mantle. She serves in different review panels at synchrotron facilities in Europe since 2010, and as Associate Editor for European Journal of Mineraloy since 2018.

In her role within EAG, Carmen will be co-chairing the Goldschmidt2023 Organizing and Science Committees with Catherine Jeandel.

Heather Buss, University of Bristol

Biography

Heather Buss is an Associate Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK. She is a low-temperature geochemist who specialises in biogeochemical weathering in the critical zone. Her focus is on identifying, quantifying and modelling feedbacks between chemical weathering and biological and physical processes, especially at rock-soil interfaces. She applies a range of tools and approaches including field work, experimentation, modelling, and geochemical analyses of rocks, soils, waters, microorganisms and vegetation. Her work on weathering extends from forests to agricultural soils to the deep subsurface. She obtained her PhD in Geosciences from Penn State University (USA) in 2006 and held positions as an NRC research fellow and as a research chemist at the US Geological Survey before moving to the UK in 2011.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

The activities of the EAG have contributed greatly to my career development and I am motivated to give back to the community as an EAG councillor. I would especially like to promote initiatives to widen participation in geochemistry, helping the discipline and community to be more inclusive of less-represented groups, and to support the education and careers of younger geochemists. I am also keen to help the society in its endeavours to move towards a more sustainable future. I have been involved with EAG initiatives for a number of years, including guest editing Elements magazine in 2019 and through nearly 20 years involvement with the Goldschmidt conference. I am excited by the opportunity to deepen my involvement with the EAG by becoming a councillor.

Nadia Malaspina, University of Milano-Bicocca

Biography

Nadia Malaspina is Associate Professor in Metamorphic Petrology at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). She obtained her PhD in 2006 at the University of Genova (Italy) in collaboration with the ANU (Australia). For the following four years she worked as a postdoc in the Experimental Petrology Group of the University of Milano and then obtained a Researcher position at Milano-Bicocca (2010-2019).
She studies the mechanisms of element transfer from the subducting plate to the mantle and the role of fluids (oxidation state and speciation of crustal components) in metasomatic processes responsible for hydration and carbonation of the mantle, adopting an integrated approach including field work, analytical and experimental techniques (LA ICP-MS, HP-HT experiments with piston cylinder, multianvil and vertical furnace at controlled fO₂) and development of forward thermodynamic modelling.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

Being part of the EAG council would be an opportunity to make my multidisciplinary scientific background and the experience as treasurer of the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology available to the EAG scientific community. As a council member I whish to favour and strengthen the relations with all the Earth Sciences communities, particularly among the students and young researchers, promoting international cross-disciplinary schools and workshops all over the Europe and favouring initiatives devoted to improve funding and publishing for early career scientists. I will also offer my experience in the public engagement aimed to promote petrology and geochemistry in the non scientific community, and to act as best practice against gender stereotypes and prejudices that may affect the future perspective of young scientists.

Jill Sutton, University of Brest

Biography

Jill Sutton is an Associate Professor in the biology department at the University of Brest and affiliated researcher at the European Institute for Marine Science (IUEM, France). She obtained her PhD in Earth Sciences from the Australian National University in 2011 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at several institutes including the University of Victoria (Canada), the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada), the University of California, Berkeley (USA), and the IUEM (France). She is a marine biogeochemist and is interested in the evolution of marine biogeochemical cycles and the development of biogeochemical proxies, for example natural abundance silicon and boron stable isotopes in marine organisms.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

I would like to serve on the EAG council because I think it would be an excellent way to discover and promote opportunities available to geoscientists in Europe. Having worked as a young scientist in several different countries I appreciate the complexities and limits to finding resources, building collaborative networks, and disseminating information, whether it be for scientific or educational purposes.

Attila Demény, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Biography

Attila Demény is the director of the Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research of the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (Budapest, Hungary, governmental institute network from 2019). He graduated as a geologist in 1986 at the Eötvös Loránd University and obtained his PhD in 1994 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He started his research carrier with geochemical studies on high-pressure metamorphic rocks and continued with stable isotope geochemistry of fluids of mantle-derived igneous rocks. Later he was involved in projects on major extinction events, that directed his interest to combined application of trace element and stable isotope geochemistry in paleoenvironmental and paleoclimate research. In the last decade he is focussing on speleothems, and especially on paleoclimate reconstructions using stable isotope analyses of carbonates and inclusion-hosted water.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

I felt very honored to learn about my nomination for the EAG Council membership. As a geochemist, participating in the council of such a top scientific organization is a great feeling and I will do my best to represent my scientific field and the region of Central and Eastern Europe. I would like to contribute to the appearance of geochemical applications in paleoclimatological-paleoenvironmental research and to the increasing participance of researchers of the region in the highly prestigious Goldschmidt conferences by spreading information. I would also promote the organization of local workshops within the framework of the European Association of Geochemistry with a special attention to involve young scientists and to explore how the Association can help their carrier in geochemistry.

Ambre Luguet, University of Bonn

Biography

Ambre Luguet is a professor of Isotope Geochemistry at the University of Bonn (Germany). She completed her PhD in Geochemistry at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and conducted her post-doctoral research at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (USA) and at the University of Durham (UK). Her research uses the highly siderophile elements (HSE) geochemistry and the Re-Os and Pt-Os isotopic systems as tracers of high temperature geochemistry processes such as the formation and evolution of the terrestrial mantle, the interactions between terrestrial reservoirs (core, mantle, crust) and the origin and age of HSE natural resources/mineralisations (e.g. Pt alloys). Since 2018, Ambre is an editorial board member of the EAG publication Geochemical Perspective Letters.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

My motivation to serve as an EAG council member is to contribute to the geochemistry community and the EAG activities, beyond being an editor for GPL. If elected, I would aim at promoting geochemistry within Europe and internationally as well as strengthening interdisciplinary collaborations between geochemists, mineralogists, and petrologists. In this scope, I am especially keen to help the EAG with its training and outreach activities that target the transfer of knowledge to students and early career scientists by sponsoring their attendances to workshops and conferences, the distinguished lecture program and the EAG-GS outreach program for under-represented regions of the world.

Philip Pogge von Strandmann, University College London and Birkbeck, University of London

Biography

Philip Pogge von Strandmann is a Reader in Isotope Geochemistry jointly at University College London and Birkbeck, University of London. He studied Earth Sciences at Oxford University between 1999 and 2003, and obtained a PhD from the Open University in 2006. He then spent five years as a post-doc at Bristol University, before moving back to Oxford as a NERC Advanced Research Fellow in 2011. He moved to London in 2013. He studies the Earth’s present and past biogeochemical cycles, focusing mainly on chemical weathering, but also aspects like nutrient cycling and palaeo-redox. His methods largely involve measuring novel isotope ratios, particularly light metal isotopes, in palaeo- and modern geological samples, and well as experimental samples.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

As I have (very) gradually become a more established academic, I’ve increasingly realised how important the community is. The EAG fosters collaboration through conferences, rewards excellence and also importantly helps promote the careers of new academics. Without these aspects, geochemistry would be a much less rewarding field to work in. I currently serve on the council of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and consider that being on the EAG council would further my contribution to geochemistry.

Itay Halevy, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Biography

Itay Halevy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His Bachelors degrees in Geology (2004) and Computer Science (2004) are from Ben-Gurion University. He received his PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard University (2010), and his postdoctoral training in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech (2011). Halevy works to develop an understanding of the processes that have governed the biogeochemical and climatic coevolution of surface environments on Earth and Mars. To decipher various geochemical and isotopic signals in sedimentary rocks, and the information they hold on past environments and processes, Halevy employs a combination of experiments, geological and geochemical observations, and theoretical models, on scales ranging from single organisms to global cycles.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

We have all chosen to spend our years of activity and creativity working as (bio)geochemists to discover, to understand, to make a difference. In addition to giving back to a society that is my professional home, my main motivation for serving as EAG councillor is to aid the members of our community in reaching these goals. To achieve this, continuing and extending the excellent work done by the present council and committees, I propose to (i) develop platforms to recognize and promote early-career scientists, (ii) bring together disparate fields, to widen the range of research problems we can address and deepen the insight into problems we are already addressing, (iii) increase the visibility of geochemistry, in the widest and most inclusive sense, to draw new talent and resources into our community.

Christian Hallman, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry & University of Bremen, Germany

Biography

Christian Hallmann leads a Max-Planck-Research-Group that is shared between the MPI for Biogeochemistry and the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) at the University of Bremen. He studied geology and paleontology at the University of Cologne (1999–2005) and obtained a PhD in applied chemistry from Curtin University in Perth, Australia (2009). Before joining the Max-Planck-Society in 2012, Christian was an Agouron Institute Geobiology Fellow at MIT. His research principally uses methods of molecular and isotopic organic geochemistry to shed more light on the co-evolution of life and environmental conditions on the early Earth.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

Over the past decades, geochemistry has become increasingly interdisciplinary with a continuously growing role of the bio-geosciences. My motivation to join the EAG council is driven by the aspiration to strengthen existing bridges to these sub-disciplines and to foster exchange with the Geobiology-, Astrobiology- and Organic geochemistry-communities. Further aspects of timely relevance include enhancing the visibility of climate change research and its relevance to the broader public through EAG outreach channels, as well as the growing importance of open access publishing, which should be advocated and may be stimulated by emphasizing the visibility and topical breadth of EAG-based media. I hope that a council position will allow me to support these points and contribute to the growth and visibility of our European geochemical community.

Kate Kiseeva, University College Cork, Ireland

Biography

Kate Kiseeva is a Lecturer in Geochemistry at the University College Cork, Ireland. She obtained her undergraduate degree (2007) in petrology and geochemistry from the Mining Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. In 2012 she received her PhD in experimental petrology from the Australian National University and for the following six years she worked as a postdoctoral researcher and later as a NERC research fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research interests focus on two topics: the behaviour of chalcophile elements in mantle processes and during the Earth’s accretion and differentiation, and high-pressure mantle geochemistry, metasomatism in the cratonic mantle and upper- and lower-mantle inclusions in diamonds.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

My main motivation to become an EAG councillor is to contribute to the geochemical community and its diversity. As an EAG councillor, I will represent high-temperature geochemical and experimental community and will try to strengthen the links between these and neighbouring disciplines, such as igneous and metamorphic petrology, economic geology and isotope geochemistry. I haven’t missed a single Goldschmidt conference since 2012, and I would relish an opportunity to be a part of an organising team of this excellent scientific event.

Alberto Vitale Brovarone, University of Torino, Italy & CNRS, France

Biography

Alberto Vitale Brovarone is a Researcher at Torino University (Italy) and CNRS (France). He obtained a binational (Italy-France) PhD in 2011, and then carried out three years of postdoctoral research in Paris, France (ISTeP; IMPMC/ENS). Alberto’s research interests center around fluid-rock exchanges and volatile recycling from the seafloor to subducting slabs, by means of a combination of field observation, geochemistry, and petrology. Over the last years, his work has mainly focused on the deep carbon cycle, and particularly on the genesis and recycling of high-pressure abiotic hydrocarbons in subduction zones, for which he has obtained grants from French (ANR) and Italian (MIUR) agencies. He is also participating in a number of projects spanning alteration of active slow-spreading oceanic lithosphere, element mobility in subducting slabs and archeology.

Motivation for serving the EAG council

Serving the EAG Council would be a great pleasure and an honor for me as a field observationalist. I am strongly persuaded that the EAG is a fundamental investment with benefits for all the Earth Science communities, with no boundaries. As a Council member, I would do my best to carry forward the vast range of EAG activities and opportunities and to expand them according to my background, in particular those favoring international training, cross-disciplinary collaborations and publishing, and mobility across Europe and abroad. These opportunities do make the difference in the modern scientific community, especially for students and young researchers. I also wish to promote new ideas strengthening interactions between the field and modern geochemical investigations in the laboratory, as well as new ways to access and share natural samples and data across countries and disciplines.

Maud Boyet

EAG Councillor, co-Chair of the Goldschmidt2021 Organizing and Science Committees

Maud Boyet is a CNRS Senior Research (Directeur de Recherche) Scientist at the Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université Clermont-Auvergne, France. Her specialty is the field of trace element and isotope geochemistry with research interests in: chronology of early solar system processes, early silicate history of planetary bodies, evolution of the Earth’s mantle and mantle dynamics through time, techniques for high precision chemical and isotope analysis.

Maud is also co-chair the Goldschmidt2021 Organising and Science Committees with Dan Frost.

Mihály Pósfai

EAG Secretary

Mihály Pósfai was elected by the EAG Council in 2017 to enhance representation of Eastern Europe within the Council. In 2018, Mihály was elected by the Council to serve as EAG Secretary from 2019 to 2021.

Mihály Pósfai is a professor of environmental science at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém, Hungary. He obtained his PhD at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, then continued as a postdoc at Arizona State University, specializing in transmission electron microscope studies of nanoscale phenomena related to environmental mineralogy problems. His current research interests include biomineralization and biomimetic synthesis of magnetic nanostructures, the nucleation of carbonate minerals in freshwater ecosystems, and the properties and climate effects of individual atmospheric particles.