Institut für Geowissenschaften, Abteilung Mineralogie - Petrologie
(Institute of Geosciences, Mineralogy Dept.)
Universität Kiel
D-24098 Kiel, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)431 880 1451
Fax.: +49 (0)431 880 4457
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Research interests:
physico-chemical interaction processes between coexisting silicate, carbide, sulfide, and/or metal phases
- textural equilibria of iron sulfide liquids at elevated temperature and pressure
- partition behavior of siderophile and chalcophile elements during early history of planets and planetesimals
- fractionation of platinum group elements during mantle melting
physico-chemical interaction processes between coexisting mineral phases, fluids and/or silicate melt phases
- dynamics and kinetics of melt-fluid-rock interactions
- micro- and nano-scale interactions of mineral phases with melts and fluids
- fluid-solid and fluid-melt-solid partition coefficients of fluid-mobile elements (http://www.sfb574.ifm-geomar.de)
- seawater-rock (MORB) interaction and resulting element partitioning in supercritical hydrothermal systems (http://www.ozean-der-zukunft.de/forschungsfelder/marine-ressourcen-u-risiken/ressourcenentstehung/fakten/)
physico-chemical interaction processes between pressed-in CO2 with circulating saline fluids and host rock’s mineral and cement phases (http://www.co2-mopa.de/)
- chemical reactions of pressed-in CO2 with circulating saline fluids and mineral and cement phases of the host rock
- alteration processes of cap rock textures due to percolating CO2-enriched brines
- microtextural changes of reservoir rocks due to alteration processes at pressure and temperature conditions of CO2 underground deposits
differentiation of basaltic melts with the main emphasis on the origin of SiO2-rich residual melts
magma mixing and mingling processes
- combination of field observations with experimentally and theoretically based research (e.g., monitoring real time mixing and mingling by in-situ synchrotron radiographic images)
