Eric Lichtfouse

Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is professor of environmental chemistry and scientific writing at Xi'an Jiatong University. Eric Lichtfouse graduated with a Bachelor and a Master of Science in Organic Chemistry from Claude Bernard University, Lyon, and a PhD Thesis in Organic Geochemistry from Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, in 1989. After post-doctoral positions at Indiana University, USA, in 1990, and the KFA Juelich Research Center, in 1992, he did molecular and isotopic research on carbon and contaminants in soils, waters, plants and the atmosphere at Pierre and Marie Curie University, Nancy University, Bourgogne University, and Aix-Marseille University. He has invented carbon 13-relative dating and discovered molecular temporal pools in environmental media, thus opening the discipline of single sample molecular chronology.