Function and Responsibilities:

Laboratory manager for the Elemap LA-ICP-MS lab

Research Interests:

My main interests, in the field of LA-ICP-MS analyses, are refining methods for analyses on e.g. sulfides, glasses and accessory minerals, combining age dating with trace element analyses by performing in situ spot analyses or trace element mapping.

• Mineral chemistry (LA-ICP-MS)
• Petrochronology
• Precambrian Geology

Career:

2023-present: EleMap LA-ICP-MS laboratory manager, Section 3.1 Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry, GFZ, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Germany

2017-2023: Research Scientist / LA-ICP-MS Laboratory Manager, University of Potsdam, Germany

2013-2017: NRF Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stellenbosch University, South-Africa

Education:

2008-2013: PhD student, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Thesis: Precambrian crustal evolution of the Rehoboth Province, Southern Africa

2005-2008: MSc Geology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2002-2005: BSc Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands