CV

Curriculum Vitae

Roland Hellmann

Research Scientist, CNRS

Environmental Geochemistry, Geochemistry group
ISTerre (Institute for Earth Sciences),
Maison des Géosciences
Observatory for Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences at Grenoble (OSUG)
Université Grenoble Alpes
France

[(Personal Information)]

Date of birth: 28.08.1958, New York City, USA
Nationality: American
Personal situation: married, 2 children

[(University Degrees)]

Université Joseph Fourier

  • HDR (Habilitation), 2007

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
Dept. of Geological and Geophysical Sciences

  • Ph.D., Geochemistry, 1988
  • M.A., Geochemistry, 1984

University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA

  • B.S., Geology 1982 (cum laude with general honors)
  • B.S., Chemistry 1982 (cum laude with general honors)

[(Professional Career)]

Research scientist, CR1 CNRS, ISTerre, Grenoble: 10/1994- to present
Research scientist, CR2 CNRS, LGIT, Grenoble: 10/1990- 10/1994
Guest professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse: 1990
CNRS foreign research fellow, Toulouse: 1989
Research and teaching assistant: Princeton University, 1982-1988

[(Awards and Distinctions)]

Sigma Xi, 1984;
Phi Beta Kappa, 1982;
Phi Lambda Upsilon, 1982;
University of Maryland General Honors Program Citation, 1982;
Phi Kappa Phi, 1981

[(Professional Activities)]

Teaching:
part-time lecturer: Groundwater Geochemistry, Masters level, Université Grenoble Alpes (2002 to present)

Invitation by Coordination Romande en Sciences de la Terre (CUSO); Short course on “Diffusion in Geological Materials” 2005 Basel (CH).
Title of lecture course: “Diffusion and mineral dissolution reactions”

Lecture series invitation by Austrian Mineralogical Society:
“Dissolution of Minerals”: 1999, Universities of Vienna, Graz, and Salzburg

Teaching assistant: 1982-1988, Princeton University

[(Society Memberships and Positions held)]

European Geosciences Union (EGU);
European Mineralogical Union (EMU);
Geochemical Society (GS);
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA);
Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie (SFMC)

Chairman (nominated), Mineralogical Society of America (MSA)
Nominating Committee for Officers, 2014
Member (nominated), MSA Nominations Committee, 2010 to 2014
Nominations Committee, Geochemical Society 2001-2003
Chair, Nominations Committee, Geochemical Society 2003-2005
Editorial Board: Associate Editor, Geochemical Transactions 2004-2011

[(Scientific Responsibilities)]

ISTerre
(formerly known as LGIT, until Jan. 2011):

  • member, LGIT executive steering committee, 2008-2010
  • head of Environmental Geochemistry group, 2008-2010
  • establishment (1990) and head of ‘geochemical fluids’ laboratory at the LGIT

OSUG (Observatory for Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences, Grenoble):

  • responsibility for surveillance project whose main aim is to link the temporal evolution of groundwater chemistry with seismic activity in the western Alps (in particular the Belledonne fault)
  • member, OSUG executive steering committee, 2007-2012

International:

  • Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, 2013, (R. Hellmann and H. Pitsch, eds.), Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, v. , Elsevier, 964 p.
  • The Geochemical Society: Editor: Geochemical Society Special Publication no. 7 (with S. Wood)
  • Goldschmidt Geochemistry Meeting 2005: member of Scientific Program Committee’-Aqueous Geochemistry; co-chair of session: "Kinetics of water-rock interactions - bridging time and length scales"
  • Geochemical Transactions: associate editor 2004-2011
  • NSF (National Science Foundation USA- Earth Sciences Division): reviewer of grant proposals
  • Reviewer: Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, Applied Geochem., Amer.Mineralogist, American J. Science, J. Nuclear Materials, Chem. Geology, Science
  • Session convenor/chair: AGU, Goldschmidt, Water-Rock Interaction meetings