Submitted by Dr C.M. Martin-Jones on Wed, 14/02/2024 - 14:09
Congratulations to Professor Helen Williams on being elected a Geochemistry Fellow of the European Association of Geochemistry and The Geochemical Society.
The Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry established the honorary title of Geochemistry Fellow to be bestowed upon outstanding scientists who have, over some years, made a major contribution to the field of geochemistry.
“I’m truly grateful for this award and I’m honoured that my peers would take the time and effort to nominate me for this - thank you all very much for this and for your support over my career,” said Helen.
Helen uses isotopic evidence to understand how the chemistry of planetary interiors have changed over time. One of Helen’s major discoveries is that iron isotopes become fractionated during mantle melting and redox processes.
In 2021, Helen and her group reported isotopic evidence in the journal Science Advances that crystal remnants from Earth’s early magma ocean were present in the mantle source regions of 3.7-billion-year-old volcanic rocks from Greenland rocks.
Helen has since been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to expand this work, using sensitive isotopic tools to study processes operating in the first billion years of Earth’s history.
Helen has served on the European Association of Geochemistry Council and co-chaired the 2019 Barcelona Goldschmidt conference, she is an editor for Geochemical Perspectives Letters and serves on NERC’s Science Committee.
Follow the link below to hear more about Helen's research: