Patrice de Caritat

Patrice de Caritat

Patrice’s university training is in geology, mineralogy, and geochemistry, and his research interests include environmental, exploration and isotope geochemistry, hydrogeochemistry, and low-density geochemical mapping. He is Senior Principal Research Scientist at Geoscience Australia and is also a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University (ANU), and Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra. In 2017–2018, Patrice was subject-matter expert seconded to the Australian Federal Police assisting with developing their soil forensic capability. He is a Fellow of the Association of Applied Geochemists (AAG) since 2005, Associate Editor for their journal 'Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis' (2017–23), and AAG Councillor (2011–12, 2013–14, and 2019–22) and Society News Editor for 'ELEMENTS' (2011–2015). Patrice holds a Lic. Sci. (B.Sc. Hons) degree from the University of Louvain (Belgium), and Ph.D. from the ANU. He has published over 180 scientific papers, reports, chapters, and books (Google Scholar h-index 45).