EAG Committees
The EAG operates thanks to the volunteers who serve on the various committees. A list of past committee members can be found in the EAG Personnel Archive.
2024 Council Nominations Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Chair: Raúl Fonseca Term: 01/2023 – 12/2025 |
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany |
| Sophie Opfergelt Term: 01/2022 – 12/2024 |
University of Louvain, Belgium |
| Mihály Pósfai Term: 01/2022 – 12/2024 |
University of Pannonia, Hungary |
| Zsófia Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger Term: 01/2022 – 12/2024 |
Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungary |
| Johanna Marin Carbonne Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland |
| Inês Pereira Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
University of Coimbra, Portugal |
Role of the Nominations Committee:
Recommend candidates for all officer and non-officer positions envisioned to become vacant the following year.
2024 Training and Outreach Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Chair: Sebastiaan van de Velde Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Silvia Volante Term: 01/2022 – 12/2024 |
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany |
| Benjamin Fosu Term: 01/2023 – 12/2025 |
Geological Survey of Canada |
| Marion Louvel Term: 01/2023 – 12/2025 |
ISTO, CNRS, Orleans, France |
| Dina Cabrita Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| Paolo Sossi Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| Zhen Wang Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
Monash University, Australia |
Role of the Training & Outreach Committee:
- Student Sponsorship and Early Career Science Ambassador programs: review applications received for those programs and decide whether to grant sponsorship/ambassadorship.
- Short Course and Conference Sponsorship Program: review applications received for this program and decide which event(s) should be selected for sponsorship.
- Distinguished Lecture Program and EAG-GS Outreach Program: recommend lecturers and assist the EAG Office where necessary.
- Upcoming conferences: provide a regularly updated list of all future meetings of potential interest to geochemists for the EAG conference calendar webpage.
2024 Communications Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Chair: Ichiko Sugiyama Term: 01/2022 – 12/2024 |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA |
| Antonio Caracausi Term: 01/2023 – 12/2025 |
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy |
| Joana Cardoso Fernandes Term: 01/2023 – 12/2025 |
University of Porto, Portugal |
| Thaïs Couasnon Term: 01/2023 – 12/2025 |
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany |
| Silke Merchel Term: 01/2023 – 12/2025 |
University of Vienna, Austria |
| Piyal Halder Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, India |
| Gerald Raab Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
Dalhousie University, Canada |
Role of the Communications Committee:
- Elements: provide or solicit contributions for EAG pages in Elements Magazine.
- Blog and Social Media: solicit contributions for the EAG Blog and suggest geochemistry related news for social media.
- Newsletter: provide geochemistry related articles highlighted by the media for the section ‘Geochemistry making the news’ in the EAG newsletter.
- EAG Forum: contribute to developing content for the forum and promote it in the community.
- Visibility: seek to promote EAG, its activities as well as the communication of geochemistry.
2024 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Co-Chair: Pallavi Anand Term: 01/2021 – 12/2025 |
Open University, UK |
| Co-Chair: Pieter Bots Term: 01/2021 – 12/2026 |
Concrete4Change, UK |
| Ernest Chi Fru Term: 01/2021 – 12/2026 |
Cardiff University, UK |
| Mary Immaculate Neh Fru Term: 01/2022 – 12/2024 |
University of Buea, Cameroon |
| Carla Tiraboschi Term: 01/2023 – 12/2025 |
University of Münster, Germany |
| Sri Budhi Utami Term: 01/2023 – 12/2025 |
Université de Liège, Belgium |
| Qasid Ahmad Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
CRPG Nancy, France |
| Sudhir Bhadra Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
Indian Institute of Science, India |
| Christophe Thomazo Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
University of Bourgogne, France |
Role of the DEI Committee:
Working collaboratively, the EAG and Geochemical Society DEI committees discuss, formulate, and enact changes to enhance diversity, inclusivity, and equity across varied Society activities. For example, by providing guidance advocating for an inclusive and accessible annual Goldschmidt conference, and suggesting ways to improve Award procedures. Recommendations by the DEI committees are reviewed by the EAG Council and the GS Board.
Additionally, the EAG DEI committee supports a Twitter account (@EAG_DEI) and provides DEI-related contributions to the EAG Blog. The committee also led the first Global Geochemistry Community Survey, in 2022.
The EAG DEI Committee is composed of two Co-Chairs, one of which is a serving member of EAG Council, and further representatives from among EAG members. The Committee also has representatives on several other EAG Committees, including the Council Nominations Committee, Awards Nominations Committee, Ethics Committee, and EAG Strategy Working Group. This representation raises the profile of DEI concerns across the spectrum of EAG activities.
2024 Ethics Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Chair: Catherine Chauvel | IPGP, France |
| Pallavi Anand | Open University, UK |
| Daniel Frost | University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| Derek Vance |
ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
Role of the Ethics Committee:
The Ethics Committee is responsible for administrating matters arising that are related to the content of EAG’s Code of Ethics as well as handling any issues or incidents reported to the committee. An incident can be reported (anonymously or not) via this form, or you can contact the committee directly at ethics@eag.org.
Goldschmidt2025 Organizing and Science Committees
Organizing Committee
| Name and role | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Martin Whitehouse Co-Convenor, Organizing & Science Committee co-Chair |
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden |
| Karen Hudson-Edwards Co-Convenor, Organizing & Science Committee co-Chair |
University of Exeter, United Kingdom |
| Dan Frost Co-Convenor and EAG President (in 2025) |
University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| Tomáš Magna Local Organizing Committee Chair |
Czech Geological Survey, Czech Republic |
| Marie-Aude Hulshoff Chief Operating Officer |
European Association of Geochemistry |
| Alice Williams Science Program Manager |
European Association of Geochemistry |
Early Career Program Committee
| Name and role | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Baptiste Debret Early Career Program Coordinator |
IPGP, France |
| David Neave Early Career Program Coordinator |
University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Paolo Sossi Early Career Program Coordinator |
ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
Science Committee
| Name and role | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Martin Whitehouse Co-Convenor, Organizing & Science Committee co-Chair |
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden |
| Karen Hudson-Edwards Co-Convenor, Organizing & Science Committee co-Chair |
University of Exeter, United Kingdom |
| Rizlan Bernier-Latmani Science Committee Member |
EPFL, Switzerland |
| Damien Daval Science Committee Member |
CNRS – Université Grenoble Alpes, France |
| Bruno Dhuime Science Committee Member |
University of Montpellier, France |
| Kathryn Goodenough Science Committee Member |
British Geological Survey, United Kingdom |
| Karen Johannesson Science Committee Member |
University of Massachusetts, USA |
| Susan Little Science Committee Member |
University College London, UK |
| Philip Pogge von Strandmann Science Committee Member |
University of Mainz, Germany |
| Chrystèle Sanloup Science Committee Member |
Sorbonne Université / UPMC / IMPMC, France |
| Meenakshi Wadhwa Science Committee Member |
Arizona State University, USA |
2024 Award Nominations Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Chair: Kate Kiseeva Term: 01/2019 – 12/2024 |
University College Cork, Ireland |
| Carlos Rocha Term: 01/2022 – 12/2024 |
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
| Sæmundur Halldórsson Term: 01/2023 – 12/2025 |
University of Iceland, Iceland |
| Ambre Luguet Term: 01/2023 – 12/2025 |
University of Bonn, Germany |
| Raúl Fonseca Term: 01/2023 – 12/2025 |
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany |
| Julie Prytulak Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
Durham University, UK |
| Feifei Zhang Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
Nanjing University, China |
| Karoly Hidas Term: 01/2024 – 12/2026 |
Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME-CSIC), Granada, Spain |
About the Award Nominations Committee
The role of the Award Nominations Committee is to identify candidates and solicit nominations for all the EAG Awards and Geochemistry Fellows.
2025 H.C. Urey Award Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Chair: Dan Frost Term: 07/2023 – 06/2025 |
University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| Vanessa Hatje Term: 07/2022 – 06/2025 |
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil |
| Tomohiro Usui Term: 07/2022 – 06/2025 |
ISAS, JAXA, Japan |
| Marie Edmonds Term: 07/2023 – 06/2026 |
University of Cambridge, UK |
| Bo Barker Jørgensen Term: 07/2024 – 06/2027 |
Aarhus University, Denmark |
About the H.C. Urey Award
The H.C. Urey Award is presented annually, at the Goldschmidt conference, for outstanding contributions advancing geochemistry over a career.
It is named in honor of Harold Clayton Urey, an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 and later led him to theories of planetary evolution.
The H.C. Urey Award Committee is chaired by the EAG Vice-President.
2025 Science Innovation Award Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Chair: Nicholas Arndt Term: 07/2024 – 06/2027 |
ISTerre, University Grenoble Alpes, France |
| Holly Stein Term: 07/2024 – 06/2025 |
AIRIE Program, USA and and University of Oslo, Norway |
| Caroline Slomp Term: 07/2024 – 06/2025 |
Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| Jon Blundy Term: 07/2024 – 06/2026 |
University of Oxford, UK |
| Jun Nishioka Term: 07/2024 – 06/2026 |
Hokkaido University, Japan |
| Sidney Hemming Term: 07/2024 – 06/2027 |
Columbia University, USA |
About the Science Innnovation Award
The Science Innnovation Award is bestowed annually to a scientist within 30 years from the start of PhD, which must be completed. Eligibility is determined by the status of the candidate at the close of the year in which nominations are received and not the year the award is presented; hence, for the 2024 Science Innovation Award, candidates should have started their PhD in 1993 at the earliest.
The subject area differs from year to year therefore the Science Innovation Award Committee is renewed every year.
2025 F.G. Houtermans Award Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Chair: Derek Vance Term: 07/2023 – 06/2025 |
ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| Maud Boyet Term: 07/2022 – 06/2025 |
University Clermont-Auvergne, France |
| Itay Halevy Term: 07/2023 – 06/2026 |
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
| Julie Prytulak Term: 07/2023 – 06/2026 |
Durham University, UK |
| Baptiste Debret Term: 07/2024 – 06/2027 |
IPGP, France |
| Rachael James Term: 07/2024 – 06/2027 |
University of Southampton, UK |
F.G. Houtermans Award
The Houtermans award is bestowed annually to a scientist within 12 years from the start of PhD, which must be completed. Eligibility is determined by the status of the candidate at the close of the year in which nominations are received and not the year the award is presented.
It is named in honor of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, a Dutch-Austrian-German physicist.
The Houtermans Award Committee is chaired by the EAG Past President.
2025 Geochemistry Fellows Award Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Chair: John Valley Term: 07/2023 – 06/2026 |
University of Wisconsin, USA |
| Xiang-dong Li Term: 07/2022 – 06/2025 |
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
| Wajih Naqvi Term: 07/2022 – 06/2025 |
Indian Institute of Technology, India |
| Sachiko Amari Term: 07/2023 – 06/2026 |
Washington University in St. Louis, USA |
| Christine Putnis Term: 07/2024 – 06/2027 |
University of Münster, Germany |
| Jeffrey Vervoort Term: 07/2024 – 06/2027 |
Washington State University, USA |
| Catherine Chauvel EAG President |
IPGP, France |
| Sumit Chakraborty GS President |
Ruhr Universität at Bochum, Germany |
About the Geochemistry Fellows
In 1996, the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry established the honorary title of Geochemistry Fellow, to be bestowed upon outstanding scientists who have, over some years, made a major contribution to the field of geochemistry. Recipients of the Urey, Goldschmidt, Treibs, Patterson and Science Innovation Awards become Fellows automatically.
EAG Strategy Working Group
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Chair: Dan Frost | University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| Liane G. Benning | German Research Center for Geosciences GFZ, Germany |
| Maud Boyet | University of Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| Catherine Chauvel | Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France |
| Kate Kiseeva | University College Cork, Ireland |
| Johanna Marin Carbonne | University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Olivier Namur | University of Leuven, Belgium |
| Derek Vance | ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
About the EAG Strategy Working Group
The role of this Working Group is to think of possible future initiatives for the society, evaluate ideas and proposals received from other groups or members, and assess which ones should be implemented.