Hervé Rezeau’s wanderlust and earth science interests have sent the French native to countries on five continents, including the United States, where, as a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, he was a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Now he’s landed in Tucson as the University of Arizona’s Lundin Family Endowed Chair of Economic Geology and an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences. “I always dreamed about a job that allows me to travel the world and discover new cultures,” says the 35-year-old economic geologist. He calls the UArizona a “renowned” institution in the “heart of a world-class metallogenic belt, where the mining industry is booming.” That sets the stage he needs to further his research on magmatic processes that create natural resources. “I was very excited about the research collaboration opportunities with leading research groups in tectonics and igneous petrology,” Rezeau says. “The economic geology group is internationally known.”