Degrees E cole Normale Supérieure de Saint Cloud-Lyon (1986-1989) Ph.D. University Paris 7, 1995 Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Paris 7, 2000 Professionnal Experience 2013-2018 : Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France 2015- present : PI of the national reseach infrastructure OZCAR 2015-2020 : PI of the SEDIMAN project, for the study of the geochemistry of large rivers from China 2013-2017 : PI of the CARBORIC ANR project for studying boron isotopes in carbonates 2001-present, Professor at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris 2010-present, Chargé de mission at Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers 1996-2001, Maître de Conférences at University Paris-Diderot 2004-2009, Vice director of Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris 2004-2009, Director of the Earth, Environmental and Planet Sciences Education Department of Paris-Diderot/IPGP universities (UFR STEP)

I am a geochemist interested by the Earth’s surface processes and the way they play a role in the geochemical cycles of elements. I have been focusing mostly of chemical potamology, i.e. the geochemistry of rivers as a way to understand the global role of chemical weathering in the Earth’s chemical engine. River average Earth’s surface processes and are messengers of the water-air-rock interaction participating in the formation of the Earth’s Critical Zone, the thin pellicle at the surface of our planet where life has developed and where humans live. I have been involved in the Critical Zone Initiative, a worldwide research initiative aiming at building a network of watershed observatories, as platforms of interdisciplinary collaboration. I am in charge of the French Critical Zone infrastructure program OZCAR. I am also coordinating the national Equipement of Excellence program CRITEX, for the development of new instruments for exploring the Critial Zone (started in 2011 for 10 years). My tools are elemental and isotopic geochemistry. My group and I have developed or have participated to the development of several techniques for measuring precise isotopic abundances in natural materials (B, Li, Zn, Mg) and applied these techniques to study rainwater, river water, soils, sediments, rocks. I have been involved in the adventure of using boron isotopes in carbonates as a tracer of paleo-pH of the ocean. More recently, I got interested in using isotopes to trace pollution.