!!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