Franck Poitrasson

Directeur de Recherche CNRS

DR1 CNRS

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CV / functions

A/ Education/Degrees

2006- Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, University of Toulouse, France.

1994- Doctorate, Igneous Geochemistry, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France.

1991- Magistère of Earth Sciences, Universities of Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, Grenoble, Chambéry and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.

B/ Professional experience

2008-present: Directeur de Recherche (DR2, then DR1 in 2014) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France.

2010-2011 : Pesquisador Colaborador Sênior, University of Brasilia, Brazil.

2009-2011: Directeur de Recherches at the Institut de Recherches pour le Développement, Brasilia, Brazil.

2001-2002: Invited Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.

1996-2008: Chargé de Recherche (CR2, then CR1 in 2000) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France.

1994-1996: Research Scientist, Analytical Geochemistry Group, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, UK.

Research

Isotope chemistry of Fe, Si and Zn to study :

Planet formation and differentiation
The environmental cycling of elements and its bearing on climate and man-induced changes
Archaeological metals tracing
Brain biochemical reactions

Responsibilities

– Associate Editor (2001-2003) European Journal of Mineralogy.

– Associate Editor (2002-2019) Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.

– Founder and leader (2003-2020) of the Isotope Geochemistry group of Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, University of Toulouse III.

– Scientific coordinator (2003-2008) of the ICP facility of Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, University Toulouse III

– Leader (2005-2008) of the Mineralogy team, LMTG-CNRS-University of Toulouse III

– Since 2007, 10 PhD students and 5 post-doc collaborators from France, Brazil, Russia and the US supervised.

– Founder and leader (2008-2015) of the Non-Traditional Stable Isotope team, GET-CNRS-University of Toulouse III-IRD.

– Co-investigator (2008-2011) for the CHEMCAM instrument on the NASA MSL rover.

– Principal Investigator (2009-present) for research on Lunar rock samples (from Apollo missions) loaned by NASA.

– Coordinator (2011-2015) of an international laboratory (CLIM-AMAZON) between Brazil, France, Germany, The Netherlands, United-Kingdom and Italy on the Amazon River basin research funded by the European Union, Brazil and France.

– President (2013-2015) of the French Society for IsotopeS (SFIS)

– President (2015-2018) of the CNRS Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers (INSU) Scientific Council.

Publications

Selection of recent publications (See full list on the Web of Science or Google Scholar):

Poitrasson, F., Zambardi, T., Magna, T., Neal, C.R., 2019. A reassessment of the iron isotope composition of the Moon and its implications for the accretion and differentiation of terrestrial planets. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 267: 257-274.

Oleinikova, O.V., Poitrasson, F., Drozdova, O.Y., Shirokova, L.S., Lapitskiy, S.A., Pokrovsky, O.S., 2019. Iron isotope fractionation during bio- and photodegradation of organoferric colloids in boreal humic waters. Environmental Science & Technology, 53(19): 11183-11194.

Poitrasson, F., 2017. Silicon isotope geochemistry. In: Teng, F.Z., Watkins, J., Dauphas, N. (Eds.), Non-traditional stable isotopes. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. Mineralogical Society of America, Washington, D.C., Vol. 82, pp. 289-344.

Poitrasson, F., d’Abzac, F.X., 2017. Femtosecond laser ablation inductively coupled plasma source mass spectrometry for elemental and isotopic analysis: are ultrafast lasers worthwhile? Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 32(6): 1075-1091.

Milot, J., Poitrasson, F., Baron, S., Coustures, M.P., 2016. Iron isotopes as a potential tool for ancient iron metals tracing. Journal of Archaeological Science, 76 : 9-20.

Mulholland, D.S., Poitrasson, F., Boaventura, G.R., Allard, T., Vieira, L.C., Santos, R.V., Mancini, L., Seyler, P., 2015. Insights into iron sources and pathways in the Amazon River provided by isotopic and spectroscopic studies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 150: 142-159.

Poitrasson, F., Zambardi, T., 2015. An Earth-Moon silicon isotope model to track silicic magma origins. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 167: 301-312.

Poitrasson, F., Vieira, L.C., Seyler, P., dos Santos Pinheiro, G.M., Mulholland, D., Bonnet, M.P., Martinez, J.M., Lima, B.A., Allard, T., Boaventura, G.R., Chmeleff, J., Dantas, E., Guyot, J.L., Mancini, L., Pimentel, M.M., Santos, R.V., Sondag, F., Vauchel, P., 2014. Iron isotope composition of the bulk waters and sediments from the Amazon River Basin. Chemical Geology, 377: 1-11.

Projects

2020-current : Circulation and provenance of ancient gold coins determined by in situ Pb, Cu and Fe isotope measurements (TrIsOr), Co-I (PI: S. Baron), MITI CNRS and Collège de France.

2018-current : Zinc isotope tracing of the origin of metallic components from neurotoxic peptides (AbetaZn). PI, MITI CNRS.

Teaching

Stable isotope geochemistry

Franck Poitrasson

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