Eric Pierce

Affiliation

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Biography

Dr. Eric M. Pierce is a distinguished scientist and leader of the Earth Sciences Group in the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science with emphasis in low-temperature geochemistry from Tulane University. Dr. Pierce currently serves as an Associate Editor for Applied Geochemistry and on the editorial board of the Nature Partner Journal Materials Degradation. His research focuses on low-temperature environmental geochemistry with emphasis in solid-fluid interactions. Specific interests are the application of experimental, spectroscopic, and computational approaches to characterize, interpret, and predict the weathering of soil minerals/glass and the fate and transformation of metals and radionuclides in environmental systems. (ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4951-1931).