Prof. Sarah Gleeson
- Committee Chair
- GFZ Potsdam
Biography
Prof. Gleeson is the Head of Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry at GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. She is also a Professor in the Institute of Geological Sciences at Freie Universität, Berlin. Previously, she held roles including Professor at the University of Alberta and Sessional Lecturer in Mineral Deposits at the University of Leeds. Prof. Gleeson’s research interests are in the genesis of hydrothermal and Ni-laterite ore deposits, aqueous fluid processes and water/rock interactions in crustal environments, geochemical tracers of fluid flow in the crust, halogens in hydrothermal systems, sediment-hosted base metal and gold deposits. She holds a PhD in Geochemistry from Imperial College London and a BA in Geology from Trinity College Dublin. In 2019, she was made Thayer Lindsley Travelling Lecturer at the Society of Economic Geologists and Distinguished Lecturer at the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.