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EAG Council

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

President
01/2023-12/2024

University of Bayreuth, Germany

Vice-President
01/2023-12/2024

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Past-President
01/2023-12/2024

CNRS Toulouse University, France

Goldschmidt Officer
01/2021–12/2024

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden

Goldschmidt Officer
01/2023-12/2026

University Clermont Auvergne, France

Treasurer
01/2021–12/2023

University College Cork, Ireland

Secretary
01/2022–12/2024

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Early Career Councillor
01/2021–12/2023

University College London, UK

Councillor
01/2021–12/2023

University of Leuven, Belgium

Councillor
01/2021–12/2023

University of Münster, Germany

Councillor
01/2021–12/2023

Cardiff University, UK

Councillor
01/2022–12/2024

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Councillor
01/2022–12/2024

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Councillor
01/2023–12/2025

University of Exeter, UK

Councillor
01/2023–12/2025

University of Vienna, Austria

Councillor
01/2023–12/2025

The EAG Council is made of Officer Councillors and Councillors.

The Officer Councillors have specific duties given in the by-laws.
The President is appointed for a two year term immediately following his or her term as Vice-President, and again serves a two year term as Past-President immediately following his or her term as President. The Councillors serve for three years, participate in council discussions, decisions, initiatives and serve the various committees.

The Councillors are directly elected by the EAG members and the Officer Councillors are elected by the council. Up to two Councillors can be appointed by the Council in connection with specific activities. See past council elections webpage.

A list of past council members can be found in the EAG Personnel Archive.

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.

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.

Derek Vance

EAG Past-President

Derek Vance 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 and the EAG, and in particular, was co-chair for the Goldschmidt meeting in Barcelona in 2019. He has also acted as a co-editor in chief for Earth and Planetary Science Letters, as editor of Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems and as an Associate Editor for Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

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.

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.

Estelle Rose-Koga

EAG Treasurer

Estelle Rose-Koga is a CNRS Research Scientist. She arrived at the Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (LMV) of Université Clermont Auvergne, France in 2005.

She obtained her PhD from Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG), Nancy, France. She did her Post-Doc in Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA. Her research has also led her in laboratories from Okayama University (Misasa, Japan) and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS, France), before joining the LMV.

Her research expertise includes geochemistry of mantle derived magmas as well as boron isotope in atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. She uses extensively secondary ion mass spectrometers (SIMS), electron microprobe (EMP) and laser ablation inductively couple mass spectrometer (LAICPMS), on small objects such as melt inclusions, sulfides, and minerals. Her current interest is on the tracing volatile components in arc magmas, MORB, and OIB using boron, lead, and sulfur isotopes as well as magmatic volatile element abundances. Her research collaborations includes scientists from Europe, Japan, USA and South America.

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.

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).

Susan Little

EAG Councillor

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.

Olivier Namur

EAG Councillor

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.

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.

Ernest Chi Fru

EAG Councillor

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.

Johanna Marin Carbonne

EAG Councillor

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.

Raúl Fonseca

EAG Councillor

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.

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.

Silke Merchel

EAG Councillor

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.