Nicholas Arndt#

Address:

Laboratoire de Géodynamique des Chaînes Alpines, UMR 5025-CNRS,
Maison des Géosciences, 1381 rue de la Piscine, 38041 GRENOBLE Cedex, France
Tel: 04 76 63 59 31; Fax: 04 76 51 40 58

Education and Professional Career

• Telopea Park High School, Canberra, Australia; 1965
• Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; 1969: BSc (hons) first class, Geology
• University of Toronto, Canada; 1975 Ph.D., Geology

Employment

• Sept 1998 to present: Professor ‘classe exceptionelle’, Université de Grenoble
• Jan 2006 to June 2006: Visiting Fellow, CSIRO Perth, Australia
• 1990-1998: Professor, Géosciences Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, France
• Oct. 1987 to May 1988: Visiting Fellow, RSES, Australian National University, Canberra
• 1981-1990: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Max-Planck-Institut, Mainz, Germany
• 1978-1980: Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
• Sept to Dec 1977: Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Montréal, Canada
• 1975-1977: Postdoctoral Fellow, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington DC, USA
• 1969-1970: Geologist, Project Mining Corporation Ltd, Australia

Research

• Petrology and geochemistry of mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks, both modern and Archean.
• Magmatic ore deposits
• Habitat of life on the early earth

Profession activities

• Director, Groupement de Recherche 514 “Métallogénie” (1997- 2000)
• Director of Graduate Studies (Master) in Earth Sciences, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (2002-2006)
• Director of a Research Networking Program of the European Science Foundation “Archean Environment: the Habitat of Early Life” (2005-2010)
• Vice director of a program of metallogeny of the European Science Foundation (1999-2004)
• Member of Conseil National des Universités, 35e section (2003-2007)
• Member of Advisory Committee, Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (2002 - )
• Member of IUGS “Commission on Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology” (1990 - )
• Member of IODP Hotspot Dynamics Detailed Planning Group (2006- )
• Member of Scientific Advisory Structure Executive Committee (SASEC) of the IODP (2008-2011)
• Member of the Groupe de Travail Exobiologie du CNES (2008 - )
• Editor of Chemical Geology (1990-2000);
• Editor of Journal of Petrology (2002-2005)
• Editor of eEarth (2006-2008)

Honours

• ISI “Highly cited researcher”
• Member of Academia Europaea
• Elected fellow of the Geochemical Society

Organization of Conferences and Sessions at Meetings (selected)

2009

The Habitat of Early Life, Mekrijärvi, Finland, August (co-convenor)

2008

• “The Earth inside, outside and alive” EGU, Vienna, April (co-convenor)
• “Peering into the Cradle of Life: Archean Environment. Vienna, April 11-12

2007

• “Early Earth Evolution” Union Session EGU, Vienna , April
• “Structure and Origin of the Lithospheric Mantle: the petro-geophysical approach” March Merrickville, Canada
• “the Mainz years” 2-day workshop, Mainz, Germany
• Field conference in the Barberton belt, South Africa. 22-29 September

Invited talks (selected)

• 2009; 5-day short course on Magmatic Ore Deposits given to Vale geologists. Lima, Peru
• 2008; University of Cambridge (24 January); Short Course – exploration for Platinum deposits, Prospectors and Developers Congress, Toronto, Canada, February; Australian Earth Sciences Congress, Perth, Australia, August.
• 2007: Bicentenary Geological Society of London August; University of Lausanne; Short Course on Magmatic Sulfides, Laurentian University and INCO Sudbury