Dear visitor,
Welcome to my website. Currently, I am a researcher at the Department of Earth Science in the Mineralogy-Petrology research group at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). I am interested in the physics of geological processes. I like to perform detailed mapping in the field, followed by petrography, geochemistry, and geochronology of samples from high grade metamorphic rocks. Results from such work motivate me to devote much of my work on thermodynamics and numerical modelling of the governing physics to understand field observations and the processes that lead to the final state of rocks at the Earth's surface.
As of December 2018 I am in charge of an Automated Mineralogy FE-SEM Lab at the Mineralogy-Petrology group. We have a Zeiss Sigma 300VP Field-Emission SEM, equipped with two Bruker Quantax Xflash 60mm2 SSD EDS detectors to do fast mineral mapping. The automated mineralogy system consists of a Mineralogic Mining and Reservoir online workstation connected to an online Zeiss ATLAS correlative microscopy workstation..
Research highlights
- Thermolab: A Thermodynamics Laboratory for Nonlinear Transport Processes in Open Systems
- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23, e2021GC010303, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010303
- Instantaneous rock transformations in the deep crust driven by reactive fluid flow
- Nature Geoscience , https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0554-9
Recent activities
Published articles
- Redox-thermal behavior of archaeological ceramics from the North Caucasus (Russia, Bronze/Iron Age)
- Journal of the European Ceramic Society40, Pages 2207-2221, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2020.01.030
- Evidence for non-lithostatic pressure in subducted continental crust
- Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 175, Pages 15, https://10.1007/s00410-019-1633-z
Conference contributions
- Towards fully coupled models of deformation, reaction, and fluid flow with dissolved aqueous species.
- EGU General Assembly 2019, 7-12 April 2019, EGU2019-13996
Invited talks
- "Coupling 2D numerical models to fully quantitative automated mineralogy mapping of hydrated peridotite.
- Modeling Collaboratory for Subduction RCN Fluid Migration Workshop. May 29, 2019
- Modelling fluid-rock interaction.
- Keynote at GeoMünster 2019. 22-25 September 2020