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Isotopic science
sovereign

From instrumental measurement to forensic software: IsoFind is the project of an isotope geochemist who decided to write the tools he was missing. Offline-first architecture, native cryptography, zero cloud dependency.

6 1st-author publications
120+ Citations
200 k Lines of code
5 Field countries
Colin Ferrari
Colin Ferrari, Dr.
Founder & lead developer
Sampling, Great Slave Lake · Northwest Territories · Giant Mine Project, 2024

Three pillars,
one discipline

IsoFind combines analytical expertise, software development and digital sovereignty around a single object: isotopic data.

Analytical & forensic expertise

PhD in experimental geochemistry on stable antimony isotopes. MC-ICP-MS and Orbitrap instrumentation. Mining, industrial and environmental fieldwork in Europe, North America and South America. Geographic origin identification of sensitive materials by multi-isotopic signature.

Software & open standard

Sole developer of the IsoFind ecosystem: desktop application (Tauri/Rust + FastAPI), ML models trained on 1.7 million geochemical data points, and ISOF v1.0 exchange format with ECDSA cryptographic signatures. Available on PyPI (pip install isof).

Sovereignty & security

Offline-first architecture designed for sensitive environments: no cloud dependency, no tracker, no telemetry. Native Zero-Trust and Zero-Knowledge protocols. Air-gap compatible. Data integrity verifiable by cryptography without any trusted third party.

From research
to the field

2026
Invited Review · Chemical Geology
Tracing arsenic and antimony in mining environments
2026
Creator of the ISOF v1.0 standard
Open JSON format for forensic isotopic data
2024 – present
Founder & Lead Developer, IsoFind SAS
Deeptech incubation INITIUM · University of Montpellier
2024 – 2025
Postdoctoral researcher
University of Waterloo, Canada · Giant Mine Project (As/Sb)
2019 – 2022
PhD in isotope geochemistry
University of Montpellier · HydroSciences · GAIA fellowship
2017 – 2019
MSc Earth Sciences
Université Grenoble-Alpes · Grenoble Institute of Technology

Colin Ferrari

"Identifying the origin of a material from its isotopic signature, and building the tools to do it at scale."

PhD in experimental isotope geochemistry, specialised in trace element isotopes (Sb, Pb, As) and their forensic applications. Postdoctoral research at the University of Waterloo on mine remediation, with fieldwork in France, Canada, Bolivia, Lebanon and the Philippines.

Alongside research, sole developer of the entire IsoFind ecosystem since 2024: desktop application, traceability algorithms, cryptographic exchange format and certification infrastructure. Joint invention declaration with the University of Montpellier.

Languages: French and English (fluent), Spanish.

MC-ICP-MS Orbitrap Stable isotopes Forensics Tauri / Rust Python / FastAPI ECDSA / PKI Machine Learning Offline-first Critical materials

Peer-reviewed
scientific foundation

The methods implemented in IsoFind are drawn from published research validated by the international scientific community.

6
1st-author
publications
120+
Citations
Google Scholar
8
Peer-reviewed
journals
2026
Invited Review
Chemical Geology
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Scientific collaborations, defence and critical industry applications, integration of the ISOF format into your analytical workflows: get in touch directly.