Scientific
Career
Education
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- Habilitation (Venia Legendi: Geochemistry) ETH
Zürich, November 2009.
Title: The Origin of Mantle Heterogeneity
- Ph.D., Florida State University, USA, November 2001
Supervisors: Prof. Alan Zindler and
Prof. Vincent Salters
Thesis Title: Mantle melting beneath
Iceland and Hawaii.
- Diplom (M.Sc.), University of Tübingen,
Germany, November 1996.
Supervisor: Prof. Ernst Hegner
Thesis Title: Rifting-related volcanism
in an oceanic post-collisional setting the
Tabar-Lihir-Tanga-Feni (TLTF) island chain, Papua New Guinea
- Vordiplom (B.Sc.), University of Tübingen,
Germany, 1993.
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Positions held
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- Since October 2010: Professor for Geochemistry at the
Institut für Mineralogie, Westfälische Wilhelms
Universität Münster.
- Mai 2006- Sept 2010: Lecturer (Oberassistent), ETH
Zürich.
- Research Scientist, MPI Mainz : September 2004-April
2006: Research position funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG).
Collaboration with Dr. A.W. Hofmann.
- Post-Doc, MPI Mainz, January 2003 – August
2004.
Collaboration with Dr. A.W. Hofmann.
- November 2002: Institute de Physique du Globe de
Paris (IPGP), France.
Collaboration with Prof. B. Bourdon.
- Post-Doc, Cambridge University, January 2002 -
December 2002.
Collaboration with Prof. D. McKenzie.
- January 1998 - April 1998: École Normale
Supérieure de Lyon, France.
Collaboration with Dr. J. Blichert-Toft
and Prof. F. Albarède.
- Research Assistant, Florida State University, 1997 -
2001.
- Teaching Assistantship University of
Tübingen, 1995.
- Participant in Cruise 105 of the German RV SONNE,
1995 (Geophysical exploration of the East Pacific Rise).
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Research
& Teaching
Research interests |
My research focuses on the understanding of the
present-day physical and chemical structure of the Earth's mantle and
crust as well as its physical and chemical evolution over geologic time.
Within this general framework, my research has covered a range of
subjects from global questions addressing the causes and development of
mantle heterogeneity, the interaction of the Earth's mantle with other
major reservoirs (continental crust, core), and the estimation of the
bulk composition of major Earth reservoirs, to more localized aspects
of melt generation and melt evolution. Hereby, the development of
analytical techniques for high-precision isotope and trace element
measurements and the development of quantitative tools for the
investigation of local and large-scale chemical cycles is an integral
part of my research.
Teaching
Lectures taught
- Geochronology
- Introduction to Geochemistry / Einführung in
die Geochemie
- Analytical Geochemistry, Mantle Geochemistry
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