Eric Oelkers is an international leading researcher in carbon capture and storage technology. Eric was a co-founder and co-director of CarbFix, the only ongoing subsurface carbon mineral storage project in the world, from 2006 to 2020. Eric currently provides advice and consulting in the area of CCS for five international energy companies and three CCS start-up companies. Eric received his undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and in Earth and Planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his doctorate from the University of California. He has been employed as a Professor at the University College London, UK, a Research Director at the CNRS GET Laboratory in Toulouse, France, and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Iceland. Eric has published over 250 scientific articles, with a current h-index of 86. According to Google Scholar, Eric is the top-cited scientist in the world in the areas of Carbon Storage and Mineral Carbonation. He has previously served as the President of the European Association for Geochemistry, director of the Geochemical Society, founding co-editor of Geochemical Perspectives and Geochemical Perspective Letters, co-editor of Chemical Geology, associate editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, and guest editor of Elements.