Johanna Marin Carbonne, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Biography
Johanna Marin-Carbonne is an assistant Professor in stable isotope geochemistry at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). She is a geological engineer by training and received a PhD in geosciences in 2009 from the University of Lorraine (France). She was a post-doctoral fellow first at the University of Los Angeles California, (USA) and then at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris (France). She was appointed assistant professor in 2014 at the University Jean Monnet (St Etienne, France) and in 2018 she joined the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Her research interests rely on better constraining the environmental conditions of the Early Earth, especially the redox conditions as well as the link between these conditions and the evolution of microbial life. Her research uses high spatial resolution method of stable isotope geochemistry associated with mineralogical and petrographic tools to better understand what kind of metabolic biosignatures can be preserved in the geological rock record.
Motivation for serving the EAG council
I have benefited greatly from various EAG activities since undertaking my PhD and will be happy to contribute and to help. In 2020, I joined the Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee of the EAG and was thrilled by the energy and initiative of this group in promoting a more inclusive community. I have learned and I am still learning a lot. If elected as a councillor, I will be keen to continue this work and to promote various initiatives aimed towards better inclusion of all kinds of geoscientist (through networking, exchange and mentoring programs, team awards etc..) and especially those aimed at helping early career researchers. The last two years have been especially difficult for early career researchers and have strongly highlighted the inequity that exists among researchers, due to personal life, mental health, ethnicity, immigrant status and sexual orientation among other factors. As a scientific community, we should dedicate time to thinking about these issues and strive to change all together so that we can build a more welcoming, inclusive, open and sustainable future for all geochemists.