Georges Calas[1] is professor of mineralogy (Emeritus) at Sorbonne Université and an honorary Senior Member of University Institute of France.
More recently, his research has extended to mineral resources and their sustainable development and to cultural heritage materials such as medieval stained glasses.
[4] Calas served on the board of directors of the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières[5] and chaired various national[6] and regional[7] scientific networks and audit committees.
Calas has received the best paper Award of the Mineralogical Society of America in 1999, the Ivan Peyches Award (Materials Sciences) of the French Academy of Sciences in 2002, the Léon Bertrand Medal (Applied Geology) of the Société Géologique de France in 2006, the Schlumberger Award of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2011, the Dolomieu Medal (Earth Sciences) of the French Academy of Sciences in 2011,[8] the Merit Award of the Société française de minéralogie et de cristallographie in 2020[9][10][circular reference] and the IMA Medal for Excellence in Mineralogical Research of the International Mineralogical Association in 2020.
[17] In 2023, Calas was awarded the Roebling Medal, the highest honor at the Mineralogical Society of America.