| Janne Blichert-Toft | |
| Birth Place: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Nationality: | French |
| Field: | Geochemistry |
| Work Institution: | École normale supérieure de Lyon |
| Alma Mater: | University of Copenhagen |
| Known For: | application of hafnium isotopes to the evolution of the Earth and the early solar system |
| Prizes: | Prix Etienne Roth of the French Académie des Sciences,[1] and the Steno Medal of the Danish Geological Society.[2] |
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.[1]
Subsequently, Blichter-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.[3]
From 2008 to 2015, she was also adjunct faculty and Distinguished Wiess Visiting Scholar at Rice University.[4]
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.
After her Marie-Curie Post-Doctorate, Blichert-Toft joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) 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.[7]
Blichert-Toft is currently on the Editorial Board of at least the following three publications:
She currently is the 2022–2024 geochemistry principal editor with the scientific magazine "Elements" and has previously served as Associate Editor for the Geochemical Society's newsletter "Geochemical News".[11] [12] 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 (Mineralogical Society of Poland), the Sociedad Española de Mineralogía (Spanish Mineralogical Society), the Swiss Geological Society, the Meteoritical Society, the Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences and the International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits.[11]