ProfessorSarah Gleeson

Sarah A. Gleeson is the Professor in Sustainability Geoscience at the UCD School of Earth Sciences and holds a Research Ireland Research Professorship. She received a B.A. (mod.) in Geology from Trinity College Dublin and a Ph.D. in geochemistry from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London.  Subsequently, she held post-doctoral positions at the Natural History Museum, London and the University of Leeds before moving to the University of Alberta, Canada in 2001 to take up a role as an assistant Professor.  From 2016 to 2025 she was the W3 Professor in Mineral Resources at the Freie Universität Berlin and led the Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry Section at the GFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam.  She is an Associate Editor of the journal Economic Geology and on the Editorial Board of Geochemical Perspectives. Sarah A. Gleeson has won many awards including the Lindgren Award from the Society of Economic Geologists and several prominent lecture tours (e.g., Society of Economic Geologists’ Thayer Lindsley Travelling Lecturer in 2019, Distinguished Lecturer of the European Association of Geochemistry 2024-2025). She serves on several advisory boards to scientific institutions and on international grant funding panels. In 2023, Prof. Gleeson was elected to the membership of Academia Europaea, an organisation which promotes European research, advises governments and international organisations in scientific matters.