Sarah A. Gleeson

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Sarah A. Gleeson is the Professor in Sustainability Geoscience at the School of Earth Sciences in UCD, holds a Research Ireland Research Professorship and is the Director of the Research Ireland Centre for Applied Geosciences (iCRAG). She received a B.A. (mod.) in Geology from Trinity College Dublin and a Ph.D. in geochemistry from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London. Subsequently, she held post-doctoral positions at the Natural History Museum, London and the University of Leeds before moving to the University of Alberta, Canada (2001-2016). From 2016 to 2025 she was the W3 Professor in Mineral Resources at the Freie Universität Berlin and led the Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry Section at the GFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam before taking up her position in UCD in 2025.

Sarah A. Gleeson has won the Lindgren Award from the Society of Economic Geologists, the H.S. Robinson medal from the Geological Association of Canada and several prominent lecture tours (e.g., Society of Economic Geologists’ Thayer Lindsley Travelling Lecturer in 2019, Distinguished Lecturer of the European Association of Geochemistry 2024-2025). She serves on several advisory boards to scientific institutions and on international grant funding panels. Prof. Gleeson was elected to the membership of Academia Europaea in 2023.