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André Luc
Professor, Dr

All Luc André’s research field of interest concerns geochemistry applied to solve questions related to magmatic, metamorphic, sedimentary and biogeochemical processes. His main concerns were:

Since 2000: silicon cycle

  • Use of silicon isotopes as tracer of biogeochemical processes in central Africa: Lake Tanganyika (CLIMLAKE), phytoliths and soils (Banana) and Congo River
  • Silicon isotopes as tracer of relative Si utilisation in the Southern Ocean (BELCANTO, EUR-OCEANS) and Lake Baïkal (CONTINENT),
  • Silicon isotopes as tracers of quartz-rich rocks forming processes, including prospects concerning the development of early life on Earth.
  • Testing Si isotopes as a potential biomarker in astrobiology as part of the Belgian Federal Center for Complexity and Exobiology.
  • Since 1997: Quantitative in situ micro-analyses of minor and trace elements in biogenic calcite and aragonite as tracers of environmental changes.
  • Since 1995: Barite as a tracer of carbon remineralisation in the Southern Ocean (BELCANTO, EUR-OCEANS), Atlantic and Indian oceans.
  • Since 1986: Geochemical and isotopic constraints on the origin of the African Alkaline magmatism (Lybia, Tanzania, RDC) with special emphasis on the relation between the nephelinic and carbonatite magmatisms.
  • 1993-2005: Geochemical constraints on the evolution of the lithospheric mantle (Lesotho and Siberia) and deep (eclogitic and high-pressure grnulitic facies in Kasaï, RDC) to ultradeep (Diamond-bearing rocks from Kokchetav, Siberia) metamorphism.
  • 1984-1998: Validation of trace element and isotopic (Nd isotopes) tracers as indexes of sediment provenance with special emphasis on oceanic and continental Palaeozoic shales rocks.
  • 1976-1993: Identification of geochemical and isotopic tracer to infer the source and the age of hydrothermally altered magmatic rocks: implications on the Caledonian evolution of Western Europe and the Precambrian evolution of central Africa.

Aside his current function as Head of Section (Research Director) of Mineralogy-Petrography and Geochemistry at the “Musée Royal de l’Afrique centrale (MRAC)”, he is also:

  • Professor at the «Université Libre de Bruxelle» (ULB)
  • Co-director of VUB-MRAC center for ICP-AES, ICP-MS, LA-ICP-MS, HR-ICP-MS analyses,
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  • Promotor of several Belgian research networks (BELCANTO I and II, CALMARS, CLIMLAKE, principal investigator of European research networks (CONTINENT, network of excellence EUR-OCEANS), principal investigator of international (GEOTRACES) research networks
  • Scientific collaborator of the «Université de Liège»
    Titularian member of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences.

Activities

List of publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Cardinal D., F. Dehairs, T. Cattaldo & L. André (2001) Geochemistry of suspended particles in the Subantarctic and Polar Front Zones south of Australia: Constraints on export and advection processes. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106: 31,637-31,656.
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Cardinal D., L.Y. Alleman, J. De Jong, K. Ziegler & L. André (2003) Isotopic composition of silicon measured by multicollector plasma source mass spectrometry in dry plasma mode. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 18: 213-218.
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Cardinal D., N. Savoye, T.W. Trull, L. André, E.E. Kopczynska & F. Dehairs (2005) Variations of carbon remineralisation in the Southern Ocean illustrated by the Baxs proxy. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 52: 355-370.
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Cardinal D., L.Y. Alleman, F. Dehairs, N. Savoye, T.W. Trull & L. André (2005) Relevance of silicon isotopes to Si-nutrient utilization and Si source assessment in Antarctic waters. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19: GB2007 .
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Fagel N., F. Dehairs, L. André, G. Bareille & C. Monnin (2002) Ba distribution in surface Southern Ocean sediments and export production estimates. Paleoceanography, 17, 1011.
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Reports

Dehairs F. et al. (2003) An integrated approach to assess carbon dynamics in the Southern Ocean. In: S. Cashetto (Ed.), Scientific results of the Belgian Scientific Research Programme on the Antarctic - Phase 4 (1997-2001): Vol. I: Marine Biota and Global Change, 135pp.

Wollast R., J.-P. Vanderborght et al. (2005) The role of the ocean in global change. In : G. den Ouden and M. Vanderstraeten (Eds.), Belgian global change research 1990-2002: Assessment and integration report, 111-134.
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André Luc
Faculté des Sciences
Centre de Recherches Archéologiques (CReA)
Isotopes, pétrologie et environnement (IPE)
Campus du Solbosch
ULB CP160/02
avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50 - 1050 Bruxelles
landre@ulb.ac.be
Phone: +32 2 650 22 46

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