Daniele Pinti

Daniele L. Pinti is a noble gas isotope geochemist and full professor at the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department of the Université du Québec à Montréal. In 1989, he obtained his MSc in Geology at the University of Rome, Italy, studying soil gas geochemistry in geothermal areas. After a brief interval in the industry, he moved in 1991 to Université de Paris VI for a PhD in noble gas geochemistry applied to oil resources. In 1996, he joined the Earth and Planetary Science group at Osaka University, Japan, for a postdoctoral position in Archean Geology, where he developed nitrogen isotopes as isotopic biomarkers through studies in Australia, Greenland, and South Africa. From 1999 to 2004, he was an assistant professor at the Université de Paris-Sud, where he worked on K-Ar dating of Italian volcanics. In 2004, he joined the UQAM, where he established a noble gas laboratory with activities spanning from groundwater dating to geothermal resource exploration. Since 2014, he has been actively working on geothermal resources with projects in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Iceland, La Reunion, Hawaii, and Japan. He authored more than 200 publications.