Janne Blichert-Toft


Janne Blichert-Toft is a geochemist, specializing in the use of isotopes with applications in understanding planetary mantle-crust evolution, as well as the chemical composition of matter in the universe. To further this research, Blichert-Toft has developed techniques for high-precision Isotope-ratio mass spectrometry measurements.
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Biography

Subsequently, Blichert-Toft was at the Australian National University in 2004, at Cambridge University in 2005, at Tokyo University in 2006, and at the University of Chicago in 2011.
From 2008 to 2015, she was also adjunct faculty and Distinguished Wiess Visiting Scholar at Rice University.

Education

After her Marie-Curie post-doctorate, Blichert-Toft joined the CNRS in 1997 and became Director of Research in 2002 working at the École normale supérieure de Lyon.

Work

After her Marie-Curie Post-Doctorate, Blichert-Toft joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in 1997 and became Director of Research in 2002, working at the École normale supérieure de Lyon.
She pioneered the application of hafnium isotopes to the evolution of the Earth and the early solar system.

Publications

Blichert-Toft is currently on the Editorial Board of at least the following three publications:
From 2022–2024 she was the geochemistry principal editor of the scientific magazine "Elements", and previously served as Associate Editor for the Geochemical Society's newsletter "Geochemical News". The magazine "Elements" is jointly published by the Mineralogical Society of America, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, the Geochemical Society, The Clay Minerals Society, the European Association of Geochemistry, the International Association of GeoChemistry, the Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, the Association of Applied Geochemists, the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, the Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, the International Association of Geoanalysts, the Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne, the Sociedad Española de Mineralogía, the Swiss Geological Society, the Meteoritical Society, the Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences and the International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits.

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