Alain Manceau#
| Membership Number: | 6106 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://perso.ens-lyon.fr/alain.manceau/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0845-611X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023- Research Scientist at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France
- 2022- Researcher Emeritus at the CNRS, ENS-Lyon, Lyon, France
- 2011-2022 Director of Research of Exceptional Class at the CNRS, Grenoble, France
- 2001 - 2011 Director of Research of 1st Class at the CNRS, Grenoble, France
- 2001 - 2002 Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley, USA (15 months)
- 2000 Visiting Scientist, Advanced Light Source, LBNL, Berkeley (3 months)
- 1999 - 2001 Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- 1997 G. Miller Visiting Professor, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (3 months)
- 1993 Director of Research of 2nd Class at the CNRS, Grenoble
- 1984 - 1988 Research Assistant and Associate at the CNRS, Paris
Fields of Scholarship
- Structure, formation mechanism, and surface reactivity of poorly crystallized minerals
- Crystal chemistry of minor and trace elements in defective solids
- Speciation of heavy metals in contaminated soils and sediments
- X-ray diffraction and scattering
- Biogeochemistry of mercury
- Electron diffraction
- Quantum chemistry
- X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAFS)
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Léon Lutaud Award and Georges Millot Medal, French Academy of Sciences
- 2022 ES&T 2021 Best Paper Award on the detoxification of methylmercury
- 2010 Silver Medal, CNRS
- 2006 George Brown Award, Mineralogical Society of Great Britain
- 2003 Brindley Lecture Award, Clay Minerals Society of America
- 2002 Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
- 1989 Bronze Medal, CNRS
- 1988 Jules Garnier Prize, French Society of Metallurgy and Materials
