Senior Researcher

Roles and responsabilities

- Supervisor of X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, Raman spectroscopy, microthermometry and clay
  laboratories
- Organisator of information days and controlling
- Radiation protection officer
- Library commissioner
- Member of examination board of MSc Geomaterials and Geochemistry
- Research project leader

 

Major Research Areas

Industrial minerals, gem, and metallic ore deposit research; fluid and melt inclusions; stable isotope geochemistry; clay minerals and clay deposits; clay in volcanic and geothermal systems; oxidation zone geochemistry; nonsulfide Zn deposits; fluid-rock interaction in the crust, archeometry

 

Selected Services

Associate Editor of Ore Geology Reviews (2003-2012)
Associate Editor of Mineralium Deposita (since 2012)
Member of Advisory Committee of Deutsche Ton- und Tonmineralgruppe (DTTG)
Member of the Source Clay Board of the Clay Mineral Society
Senior Member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Economic Geologist Student Chapter Munich, Germany

Reviewer for the Swiss, Austrian and German National Science Foundations (SNF, FWF, DFG) and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Regular reviewer for: Economic Geology, Mineralium Deposita, Ore Geology Reviews, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Clay Minerals, Clays and Clay Minerals, Chemical Geology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Bulletin of Volcanology, Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geothermics.

 

Memberships

Society of Economic Geologists, Society of Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits

International Association for the Genesis of Ore Deposits

Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft

Deutsche Ton und Tonmineralgruppe e.V., Clay Minerals Society 

Society of Jewellery Historian

Organized meetings

Organizer of the European Science Foundation (ESF) sponsored Exploratory Workshop on "Non-sulfide Zn-Pb Ores: The European types as background for exploration " April 20-23, 2005; Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy.

Organizer and lecturer of the SGA-sponsored Workshop “Gold Mineral Systems 2006” June 6-9, 2006; Munich, Germany.

Organizer of DTTG meeting October 25-26th 2013 in Munich, Germany