Daniele Pinti

Daniele Pinti is a professor at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Université du Québec à Montréal and is head of the Noble Gas Laboratory at Geotop. He graduated in geology in 1989 at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He obtained a PhD in noble gas geochemistry at Paris VI University in 1993 on the sources and migration of petroleum in the Paris Basin using noble gases as fluid tracers. He then moved to Osaka University for a postdoc to study past fluids in Archean rocks. There, he developed nitrogen isotopes as an isotopic biomarker for detecting early Earth biological activity in rocks. Back in France, as an assistant professor at the University of Paris XI, he continued studying stable isotopes in Archean rocks from India, Western Australia, and South Africa. He started a prolific outreach activity in astrobiology, writing on the origin of oceans and early Earth environments. He was co-editor of two editions of the Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, writing numerous entries. At Paris XI, he worked on the Quaternary tephrochronology of the Italian Alps, using K-Ar. In 2004, he moved to UQAM where he established a noble gas laboratory to study the sources, evolution and residence times of fluids in the continental crust, particularly hydrothermal systems and geothermal brines. He conducted numerous studies in Hawaii, La Réunion, France, Italy, Japan, Iceland, Chile, Mexico and Congo, writing more than 35 scientific papers in the last decade. In total, he has written over 160 scientific papers, book chapters, and encyclopedic entries cited in SCOPUS.