Eric H. Oelkers, EAG Past-President

Eric is a CNRS Research Director and the Chair of the Experimental Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry Department in Toulouse, France.

Eric has previously served the EAG as councillor, Treasurer, Vice-President and President. He has also served as a Director of the Geochemical Society, co-Editor in Chief of Chemical Geology, and Associate Editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Eric has also co-edited four special journal issues including the 2005 Chemical Geology issue ‘Geochemical Aspects of CO2 sequestration’.

His primary research area is experimental determination of the thermodynamics and kinetics of mineral-fluid reactions. He has recently raised over 5 million Euros to create two European-wide training and research networks (MIR and MIN-GRO) aimed at quantifying the reactivity of mineral-fluid interfaces.

More information and a list of publications can be found can be found here.

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