Alexander Sobolev (geologist)
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Alexander Vladimirovich Sobolev | |
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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 | March 23, 1954 |
| Alma mater | Novosibirsk State University |
| Known for | Melt inclusion geochemistry; mantle-derived magmas; mantle source heterogeneity |
| Awards | Humboldt Research Award (1999); Wolfgang Paul Research Award programme (2001) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geochemistry Petrology |
| Institutions | Vernadsky 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).