Teams
The DELTA-MIN Initial Training Network is funded by the European Commission and managed by the Institut für Mineralogie, University of Münster, Germany. DELTA-MIN is a collaborative research and training program with teams from the following locations:
| Münster | |
 | University of Münster Institut für Mineralogie Correnstrasse 24 48149 Münster Germany Website Scientist-in-charge: Prof. Andrew Putnis Email: putnis@uni-muenster.de |
| Expertise: Hydrothermal reaction mechanisms; solid-fluid equilibration mechanisms; measurement of real-time growth and dissolution in AFM fluid cells; application of SEM, TEM and X-ray diffraction. | |
| Toulouse | |
 | Université de Paul-Sabatier/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Laboratoire des Mécanismes et Transferts en Géologie 14, avenue Edouard Belin Toulouse, 31400 France Scientist in charge: Dr. Eric Oelkers Email: oelkers@lmtg.obs-mip.fr Website Email: oelkers@lmtg.obs-mip.fr |
| Expertise: Application of open and closed system reactor experiments to measure bulk precipitation and dissolution rates. Application of high resolution mass spectrometry to quantifying minute quantities of elements. | |
| Reykjavik | |
 | Reykjavik University of Iceland Institute of Earth Sciences Sturlugata 7 Askja 101 Reykjavík Iceland Website Scientist in charge: Prof. Sigurdur R. Gislason Email: sigrg@raunvis.hi.is Supporting Scientists |
| Expertise: Carbonate interaction with mafic rock and volcanic glass. Carbonate precipitation in fracture networks and igneous/metamorphic rocks. | |
| London | |
 | Natural History Museum Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD England Website Scientist-in-charge: Dr. Eugenia (Eva) Valsami-Jones Email: E.Valsami-Jones@nhm.ac.uk |
| Expertise: Reactivity of minerals, including nano-minerals and biominerals, and their role as hosts of pollutants as well as experimental studies of mineral replacement reactions. | |
| Oslo | |
 | Physics of Geological Processes (PGP) Sem Selands vei 24 NO-0316 Oslo Norway Website Scientist-in-charge : Prof. Håkon Austrheim Email: h.o.austrheim@geo.uio.no |
| Expertise: Interaction of fluids with rocks and the mechanisms of metasomatic and reaction mechanisms. Micro-analytical methods of mineral analysis. | |
| Granada | |
 | Dpto. Mineralogía y Petrología, University of Granada, Avenida Fuentenueva s/n 18002 Granada Spain Website Scientist-in-charge: Prof. Carlos Rodriguez Navarro Email: carlosrn@ugr.es |
| Expertise: Mechanisms of salt crystallisation damage in building stone; effect of pollution on stone materials; weathering in urban and extraterrestrial environments. | |
| Patras | |
 | Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes FORTH/ICE-HT, Stadiou Str., Platani P.O.Box 1414 GR-26504 Patras, Greece Website Scientist-in-charge: Prof. Petros Koutsoukos Email: pgk@iceht.forth.gr |
| Expertise: Nucleation phenomena, crystal growth, dissolution and phenomena related with suspensions of colloidal particles in aqueous solutions (aggregation, adhesion, adsorption, ion exchange etc. | |
| Stockholm | |
 | Department of Geology and Geochemistry Stockholm University 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Website Scientist-in-charge : Dr. Sandra Piazolo Email: sandra.piazolo@geo.su.se |
| Expertise: mechanisms of fabric development, grain boundary migration, annealing and fluid rock interaction, development and application of different quantitative techniques of microstructural analysis, analogue and in-situ modelling and numerical simulations. | |
| Barcelona | |
 | Amphos 21 |
| Expertise: geochemical modelling of heavy metals and trace elements in natural waters, thermodynamic and kinetic modelling of laboratory-scale and pilot-scale experiments, reactive transport modelling to predict the evolution of contaminant plumes and input to global risk and performance assessment. | |
