Honour

• 2024 Duncan Derry Medal from Geological Association of Canada
  Distinguished University Professorship since 2023

• 2022 Takeo Kato Gold Award from the Society of Resource Geology in Japan

• 2022 International Exchange Lecturer of the Society of Economic Geologists

• Elected Fellow, the Royal Society of Canada (since 2011)

• Elected Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America (since 2012)

• 2013 Island Arc award

Editorial Work

• Editorial Board, Economic Geology from Society of Economic Geologists

• Associate Editor, Scientific Reports_from Nature publication.

• Associate Editor, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences from Elsevier

• Associate Editor (til 2015), The Canadian Mineralogist.

Professional Activities

• 2022- International Exchange Lecturer of the Society of Economic Geologists (photos)
  Director, Earth Ocean and Atmosphere Division of Royal Society of Canada (2021-2024)
  New Fellow Selection Committee for Royal Society of Canada (2012-2017, 2019-2024)

• Expert Panel member, Terra Canada for Chief Science Advisor of Canada (2019-2021)

• Councilor, Society of Economic Geologists (2017-2019)
  Award Committee, Mineralogical Society of America (2013-2017)

• Director, Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre (1991-1994)

• Canadian Foundation for Innovation, expert panel (2024- 2025)

• European Union Research Council, expert panel (2023- present)

• European Union Research Impact Assessment panel (2023-)

• Grant Committee, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) (2023)

• Mineralogical Society of America, Roebling Medal committee (2023-2026)

• Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (2004-2008)

Research Interests and Projects:

Our research examines the behaviour of redox-sensitive metals in a variety of settings.

Theme I focuses on the distribution of metals and chalcophile elements in subduction zones. Theme II evaluate magmatism linked to metallic mineral deposits.
We also study dispersion of metals from concealed deposits.

RESEARCH

• Recycling of elements in subduction zones
  Volcanoes keep discharging volatiles because these elements are transferred  from the surface to deep mantle where magmas are generated.

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• Magmatism associated with metallic mineralization (copper, gold, uranium, platinum)
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• Cratonization of Canadian Shield
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Arsenic and other studies