Georges Calas#
| Membership Number: | 3070 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.impmc.jussieu.fr/~calas |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - 2015 "Sustainable Development" Annual Chair, College de France, Paris
- 2012 - 2016 Chair, Regional Priority Funding Network "Oxide materials", Ile de France Region
- Since 2010 Member of the Board of Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM-French Geological Survey)
- 2006 - present Senior Member, University Institute of France, Chair of Mineralogy
- 2001 - 2008 Director, CNRS Group of Research Laboratories 'Glassy materials'
- 2001 - present Professor, Pierre & Marie Curie University
- 1997 - 2008 Deputy director, Mineralogy Department, Pierre & Marie Curie University
- 1993 - 1997 Adviser for 'Energy, environmental technologies and mineral resources', Ministry of Research and Higher Education
- 1992 Allan Cox Professor, Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
- 1983-1988 Chairman, Department of Earth sciences, Paris Diderot University
- 1981–2001 Full Professor, University Paris 7 (Paris Diderot University)
- 1974-1975 International Cooperation Volunteer, Instituto Nacional de Energia Nuclear, Mexico
- 1972–1981 CNRS Research Associate, Department of Mineralogy, University Paris 6
Fields of Scholarship
- Crystal chemistry of minerals and inorganic compounds
- Environmental mineralogy
- Glass science
- Sustainability of mineral resources
- Radiation damage
- Contamination processes in soils
- Structure-property relationships in minerals and synthetic materials
- Mineral spectroscopy
- Nuclear waste management
Honours and Awards
- 2020 IMA Medal for Excellence in Mineralogical Research, International Mineralogical Association
- 2020 Merit Award, Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie
- 2020 Fellow, American Ceramic Society
- 2018 Honorary Fellow, The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland
- 2016 Doctor Honoris Causa, National University of Kazakhstan, Almaty
- 2014 Foreign Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
- 2014 Dolomieu Grand Prize (Earth Sciences), French Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Elected member, Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (Belgium)
- 2011 Elected Member, Academia Europaea
- 2011 Schlumberger Medal, Mineralogical Society of Great Britain
- 2010 Fellow, Society of Glass Technology
- 2009 Geochemistry Fellow, Geochemical Society et European Association for Geochemistry
- 2007 Highlight 2007, ISIS spallation neutron source, Didcot
- 2006 Léon Bertrand Prize (Applied Geology), French Geological Society
- 2006 Senior member, Institut Universitaire de France
- 2005 Highlight 2005, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble
- 2002 Peyches Grand Prize (Materials sciences), French Academy of Sciences
- 1999 Best paper Award, The American Mineralogist, Mineralogical Society of America
- 1992 NATO Fellow
- 1992-1996 Elected Vice-president, European Mineralogical Union
- 1991-1992 Vice-President and President, Société française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie
- 1989 Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America
- 1988 Carrière award (Mineralogy), French Academy of Sciences
