Function and Responsibilities:

 • responsible for hydrothermal diamond-anvil cell laboratory, Raman spectroscopy laboratory and hydrothermal laboratory

Research Interests:

·      inclusions in minerals

·      pegmatites

·      hydrothermal fluids

·      alkaline rocks and carbonatites

·      rare-metal ore deposits

·      experiments (particularly using hydrothermal diamond-anvil cell)

·      Raman spectroscopy

Career:

1997-2007       postdoctoral associate, GFZ

since 2007       senior scientist, GFZ

Education:

1983    Facharbeiter für Bergbautechnologie, SDAG Wismut, Gera, Germany

1990    Diplom-Geologe, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

1997    Ph.D., major: Geological Sciences, Virginia Tech, USA

2005    Habilitation in Mineralogy, TU Berlin, Germany

Projects:

SPP 2238 - Dynamics of Ore Metals Enrichment – DOME (https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/spp2238/projects/list-of-accepted-proposals)

·      First funding period:  Niobium, zirconium, titanium, and rare earth elements in alkaline silica-undersatured magmas: experimental determination of solubility, complexation and phase relations and implications for the formation of magmatic Nb-Zr-REE deposits

·      First funding period:   Experimental studies on Mo mobility in high-pressure high-temperature fluids of complex compositions

·      Second funding period: The role of fenitising fluids in the formation of Nb, Zr and REE ore deposits

Formation of rare-metal deposits (Li, Be, Sn, W): from unknown knowns and known unknowns to known knowns

Speciation in hydrothermal fluids

Various applications of Raman spectroscopy