Honorary Lecture - Prof. Philippe Gillet: « GEOLOGY….. and BEYOND »
Event details
| Date | 03.05.2023 |
| Hour | 17:15 › 18:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Philippe Gillet |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture |
| Event Language | English |
GEOLOGY … and BEYOND
Geology reveals the book of our origins and confronts us with our responsibilities for the future of the planet. The functioning of the Earth is the result of the interplay of the cooling of the primitive earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, the heating by the sun and the evolution of life to the present day. It is a chemically closed system with highly contrasting time scales and movements that has led to the resource capital on which we have built our societies, with its attendant natural and man-made disasters. Reading a few pages of this history is a reminder of how the earth evolved and how the tools of geology find applications in the great societal transitions we must face in the coming decades.
Biography
RESEARCH FIELDS
Earth and natural resources.
Physics & chemistry of materials.
Use of trace elements for authentication and traceability of Food, Health and Energy products.
Extraterrestrial matter and birth of the Solar System.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
1983–2023: Professor – Université de Rennes, Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, EPFL.
2017–2023: Chief Science and Innovation Officer - SICPA, Switzerland.
2010–2016: Vice-president of Academic Affairs – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
2007–2010: Chief of Staff of the French Minister for Higher Education and Research.
2003–2007: Director – Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon.
2006–2007: President – French National Science Foundation (ANR).
2004–2007: President – University of Lyon.
2000–2003: Director – Institut des Sciences de l’Univers (CNRS, French Research Agency in charge of research in Space, Environment, Oceanography, Climate and Earth Sciences).
Geology reveals the book of our origins and confronts us with our responsibilities for the future of the planet. The functioning of the Earth is the result of the interplay of the cooling of the primitive earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, the heating by the sun and the evolution of life to the present day. It is a chemically closed system with highly contrasting time scales and movements that has led to the resource capital on which we have built our societies, with its attendant natural and man-made disasters. Reading a few pages of this history is a reminder of how the earth evolved and how the tools of geology find applications in the great societal transitions we must face in the coming decades.
Biography
RESEARCH FIELDS
Earth and natural resources.
Physics & chemistry of materials.
Use of trace elements for authentication and traceability of Food, Health and Energy products.
Extraterrestrial matter and birth of the Solar System.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
1983–2023: Professor – Université de Rennes, Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, EPFL.
2017–2023: Chief Science and Innovation Officer - SICPA, Switzerland.
2010–2016: Vice-president of Academic Affairs – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
2007–2010: Chief of Staff of the French Minister for Higher Education and Research.
2003–2007: Director – Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon.
2006–2007: President – French National Science Foundation (ANR).
2004–2007: President – University of Lyon.
2000–2003: Director – Institut des Sciences de l’Univers (CNRS, French Research Agency in charge of research in Space, Environment, Oceanography, Climate and Earth Sciences).
Practical information
- General public
- Free