The European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) has awarded Prof. Sarah A. Gleeson, head of the Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry section at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the “Distinguished Lectureship” as an outstanding lecturer. As part of this lecture programme in 2025, she will give lectures in four Eastern European countries, including Poland and Hungary, on topics such as the formation of large copper and zinc deposits in sedimentary basins.

About the EAG Distinguished Lecture Program

The EAG Distinguished Lecture Program focuses on Central and Eastern Europe and aims to introduce and motivate scientists and students located in under-represented regions of the world to emerging research areas in geochemistry. The Distinguished Lecturer is selected each year based on a combination of outstanding research contributions to geochemistry and the ability to clearly communicate these contributions to a broad audience.

About the person

Sarah A. Gleeson has been researching at the GFZ since 2015. In addition to heading the ‘Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry’ section, she holds a professorship for Mineral Resources at the FU Berlin. Since 2019, she has also been Director of ‘Topic 8 – Georesources’ of the joint research programme ‘Changing Earth – Sustaining our Future’ of the Helmholtz Research Field ‘Earth and Environment’. Before joining the GFZ, she held an assistant, associate and finally a full professorship at the University of Alberta, Canada, from 2001 until she moved to Germany. She holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin and Imperial College, London where she completed her PhD.

Sarah A. Gleeson has been honoured several times during her career, both for her outstanding research and for her excellent teaching.

Her research interests lie in the formation of mineral deposits, hydrothermal flows and the interaction between water and rock. In particular, she studies the formation of hydrothermal deposits and nickel laterites, fluid processes and fluid/rock interactions in the crust, geochemical tracers of fluids in the crust, halogens in hydrothermal systems and non-ferrous metals in sedimentary basins.

(With material from the EAG website: https://www.eag.org/outreach/dlp/)