Abstract
Thank you very much, Gordon, for these very kind words. I receive the MSA Award with a lot of pleasure and much pride. Checking the impressive list of the former recipients, I can only feel very humble and surprised but happy to be here. It means a lot to me. Considering the worldwide reach and breadth of MSA, this is a fantastic recognition and looking back to my childhood, the distance to here was clearly huge. I first came to the U.S.A. in 2003 for a post-doc in Stanford, California. Funnily enough, the first workshop I attended was the MSA short course on biomineralization in the Nappa Valley and I remember exciting and stimulating talks. At that time, I could not imagine that one day I would receive the MSA award. I also take it as a huge responsibility: an incentive to work harder so that some day I may contribute significantly, like the former recipients of the award, to our field of mineralogy. To tell a few words about my background, I received a general background in science including Life and Earth sciences. When I was admitted at l’Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, I faced the dilemma of choosing between biology or geology. Because of the charisma of some teachers, in particular Laurent Jolivet, I chose geology. I had a lot of fun learning many things about geodynamics but …
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