Congratulations from ENS de Lyon to Francis Albarède! Emeritus professor at ENS de Lyon and member of the Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon Terre Planète Environnement (LGL-TPE), he was recently elected an international member of the United States Academy of Sciences on April 29, having previously been elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Francis Albarède joined the École normale supérieure de Lyon in 1991, after twelve years as a professor at the École nationale supérieure de géologie in Nancy. Trained in natural sciences at the University of Montpellier in the 1960s, he defended a post-graduate thesis in geochemistry in 1972 at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris, followed by a state thesis in 1976. He then spent two years in the United States before continuing his academic career in France.

Francis Albarède became Professor Emeritus in 2015. Among the many awards and honors he has received: the CNRS Silver Medal in 1988 and the Legion d'Honneur in 2008. He was also named a member of the IUF in 1994, received the Goldschmidt Award of the Geochemical Society in 2008 and the Nemmers Prize in Earth Science in 2018. And so, in 2022, he joined the French Academy of Sciences, as an elected member of the Section des sciences de l'univers.

Since April 29, 2025, he has also been elected an International Fellow by the United States Academy of Sciences, along with 29 other members “in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”. He is one of 2,662 active members and 556 international members of this academic society.