Bernard is a CNRS Research Director at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.
His main research interests are in the field of isotope geochemistry, in particular understanding magma generation, the processes of early planet evolution (including the Earth), as well as the application of isotopes for understanding processes at the surface of the Earth.
He has been involved in developing new applications of U-series geochemistry for understanding chemical weathering and transport in aquifers.
He completed his PhD at Columbia University, New York (1994), then was at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France and at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, before moving to Lyon in 2010.
