Alexander Sobolev (geologist)

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Alexander Vladimirovich Sobolev
Александр Владимирович Соболев
Alexander V. Sobolev at the award ceremony for the Fellowship of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, USA, December 11, 2019.
Born (1954-03-23) March 23, 1954
Alma materNovosibirsk State University
Known forMelt inclusion geochemistry; mantle-derived magmas; mantle source heterogeneity
AwardsHumboldt Research Award (1999); Wolfgang Paul Research Award programme (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsGeochemistry
Petrology
InstitutionsVernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOKHI, RAS)
Université Grenoble Alpes (ISTerre)

Alexander Vladimirovich Sobolev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Со́болев; born 23 March 1954) is a Russian geochemist, petrologist and mineralogist whose research focuses on the origin of mantle-derived magmas and their sources, using the composition of olivines, melt inclusions, physical chemistry and modelling.

Sobolev is a full member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (elected in 2016) and a member of Academia Europaea (elected in 2013) He was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2019 and a Geochemistry Fellow (2021) of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry. In 2015 he became a senior member (now membre honoraire) of the French Institut universitaire de France.

Sobolev is listed by the European Commission's CORDIS database as a corresponding principal investigator of the European Research Council Synergy project Monitoring Earth Evolution Through Time (MEET, 2020–2027).