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

CRPG Nancy, France

Treasurer
01/2024–12/2026

University College Cork, Ireland

Secretary
01/2022–12/2024

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

Open University, UK

Councillor
01/2024–12/2026

IPGP, France

Early Career Councillor
01/2024–12/2026

Durham University, UK

Councillor
01/2024–12/2026

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Councillor
01/2024–12/2026

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.org).

Julie Prytulak, Durham University, UK

Councillor

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.

Paolo Sossi, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Councillor

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.