Eric Lichtfouse – Biography - 2018
Photos. Left: giving lectures and workshops on scientific writing. Right: extracting soil organic compounds using CHCl3Methanol 3/1 v/v
Eric Lichtfouse, born in 1960, is a biogeochemist working on carbon sequestration, and professor of scientific communication at the European Centre for Research and Education in Geosciences (CEREGE), University of Aix Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France. He got a PhD in organic geochemistry at the 1 University of Strasbourg in 1989 for the discovery of new fossil steroids in sediments and petroleum . Those molecular fossils are now widely applied as maturation parameters for basic research and applied 13 petroleum exploration. He has then invented the C-dating method allowing to measure the dynamics of 2 soil organic molecules . This method is based upon the unexpected discovery of ‘temporal pools’ of the same organic substance of different relative ages in a same sample. As a consequence, this nonradioactive, relative dating method opens research on the origin, history and fate of organic substances in complex organic media such as waters, soils, sediments, waste, food and living organisms. The method principle can be applied to any isotope. He is founder and Chief Editor of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, of 3.6 impact factor, the series Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World and the series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 3 published by Springer Nature . He is also founder and Chief Editor of the Newsletter Publier La Science, 4 published by the French Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) . As former Chief Editor of the journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development, his editorial team has raised the journal impact factor from 0.3 to 4.1, ranking 4 in the Agronomy category. He has published the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor 5 Journal, describing the micro-article, a new tool to identify the novelty of experimental results . He has given conferences and workshops on scientific writing in Australia, China, Egypt, Europe, Mexico, Tunisia and the USA. He has 164 publications in Google Scholar and ResearchGate, with h indexes of 29 and 30. He has 95 publications in Thomson ReseacherID, with an h index of 23. He has edited more than 50 books published by Springer Nature. He got the Analytical Chemistry Prize of the French Chemical Society, the Grand 6 University Prize of Nancy University and a Journal Citation Award by the Essential Science Indicators . In sport, he received the bronze metal at the World ITU Cross Triathlon Championships and he was selected 6 times for the World Championships of Ironman, Ironman 70.3 and Xterra. Eric Lichtfouse is open to collaborations with governments, universities, departments, scientists and students for performing cutting-edge science and publishing in high rank journals. Contact, CV and publications Email :
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References 1. Occurrence of 2-methyl-, 3-methyl- and 6-methyltriaromatic steroid hydrocarbons in geological samples. Tetrahedron Lett. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00175050. Synthesis of triaromatic steroid hydrocarbons methylated at position 2, 3 or 6: molecular fossils of yet unknown biological origin. Tetrahedron https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00175800. A molecular and isotopic study of the organic matter from the Paris Basin, France. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00191892. 13 2. C-dating, the first method to calculate the relative age of molecular substance homologues in soil. Env. Chem. Lett. https://hal.archivesouvertes.fr/hal-00674221. Plant wax n-alkanes trapped in soil humin by non-covalent bonds. Die Naturwissenschaften https://hal.archivesouvertes.fr/hal-00193669. Temporal pools of individual organic substances in soil. Analusis https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00262449. 13 C Labelling of soil n-hentriacontane (C31) by maize cultivation. Tetrahedron Lett. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00192951 3. ECL: https://www.springer.com/journal/10311. ECSW: http://www.springer.com/series/11480 SAR: http://www.springer.com/series/8380 4. https://www6.inra.fr/caps-publierlascience 5. https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=42211 6. http://archive.sciencewatch.com/inter/jou/2010/10novAgrSusDev
