Participants
17 November 2023
12:20 – 13:05
Amphithéâtre Painlevé
Francis Albarède
Francis Albarède studied natural sciences at the University of Montpellier in the 1960s. In 1972, he defended a post-graduate thesis in geochemistry (directed by Claude Allègre) at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, where he remained for several years as a teacher-researcher. In 1976, he defended a state thesis in isotope geochemistry, then spent two years in the United States. In 1979, he was promoted to professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie in Nancy, where he remained for 12 years. Finally, in 1991, he joined the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. Francis Albarède is now an emblematic figure at the ENS. He has been heavily involved in teaching and research at the Lyon Terre Planète Environnement (LGL-TPE) geology laboratory. In the mid-1990s, for example, he helped his laboratory acquire the very first commercial plasma-source multicollection mass spectrometer. Since 2015, he has been Professor Emeritus at ENS Lyon, but is still Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Rice University in Texas. In December 2022, he was elected member of the Académie des Sciences, Section des sciences de l’univers.