职称：高级研究员
研究方向： 煤岩学、煤矿物学和无机地球化学、煤及燃煤产物的利用
David French，1983年博士毕业于英国纽卡斯尔大学，获火成岩岩石学和矿物学理学博士学位，留校任矿物勘探工业和研究助理。与澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织有近28年合作，2014年9月退休与Colin Ward合作，至今在澳大利亚新南威尔士大学任高级访问学者。
代表性论文：
1.Ian Graham, David French,Obituary for Colin Rex Ward: 31 December 1945–18 September 2018,International Journal of Coal Geology,2018,200,59-60
2.Shifeng Dai, Panpan Xie, Colin R. Ward, Xiaoyun Yan, Wenmu Guo, David French, Ian T. Graham,Anomalies of rare metals in Lopingian super-high-organic-sulfur coals from the Yishan Coalfield, Guangxi, China,Ore Geology Reviews,2017,88, 235-250
3.Shifeng Dai, James C. Hower, Colin R. Ward, David French,Enrichment of Bi-Be-Mo-Cd-Pb-Nb-Ga, REEs and Y in the Permian coals of the Huainan Coalfield, Anhui, China: Discussion,Ore Geology Reviews,2018,102,937-939
4.Colin R. Ward, Ken Riley, David French,Dalway John (Dal) Swaine: 1920–2013,International Journal of Coal Geology,2013,113, 60-62
5.Colin R. Ward, David French,Determination of glass content and estimation of glass composition in fly ash using quantitative X-ray diffractometry,Fuel,2006,85(16), 2268-2277
6.Shifeng Dai, Panpan Xie, David French, Colin R. Ward, Ian T. Graham, Xiaoyun Yan, Wenmu Guo,The occurrence of buddingtonite in super-high-organic-sulphur coals from the Yishan Coalfield, Guangxi, southern China,International Journal of Coal Geology,2018,195,347-361
7.Lei Zhao, Colin R. Ward, David French, Ian T. Graham,Mineralogical composition of Late Permian coal seams in the Songzao Coalfield, southwestern China,International Journal of Coal Geology,2013,116-117,208-226
8.Jingjing Liu, Colin R. Ward, Ian T. Graham, David French, Shifeng Dai, Xiaolin Song,
Modes of occurrence of non-mineral inorganic elements in lignites from the Mile Basin, Yunnan Province, China, Fuel,2018,222,146-155
9.Shifeng Dai, Dongping Ji, Colin R. Ward, David French, James C. Hower, Xiaoyun Yan, Qiang Wei,Mississippian anthracites in Guangxi Province, southern China: Petrological, mineralogical, and rare earth element evidence for high-temperature solutions, International Journal of Coal Geology, 2018,197,84-114
研究课题：
1.先进矿物技术在煤炭利用和煤炭地质研究中的应用研究。
2.应用微束技术，如SEM，EMP，PIXE同步加速器和XRD。
3.煤和煤利用产品中微量元素的地球化学分析。