The research highlights
My main research activities consist of:- Calibrating models with quantitative detailed geological mapping
- Unravelling physics of geological processes from microscopic observations and chemistry of minerals and rocks
- Thermodynamic modelling, geothermobarometry, and P-T path modelling
- Reactive fluid flow, mass transport and deformation in metamorphic rocks
- Processes involving deviations from lithostatic pressure
Research topics
The following list shows the main geological topics I applied my research to.- Ultra-high pressure metamorphism
- Continental collision and orogeny
- Mineral reactions in the lower crust
- Subduction zone processes
Numerical simulations
The following list shows some examples of numerical model simulations.- Formation of metasomatic fronts.
- Exsolution of a phase in 3D.
- Porosity evolution due to (de)hydration reaction.
Downloadable programs
The following link can be used to download the program related to the paper from Vrijmoed & Hacker (2014) to determine P-T paths from garnet zoning using a brute-force method.- Brute_frac_v2017_03_24
- Brute_frac_v2018_11_20 for Perple_X version 6.8.4, with isopleth plotting functionality added.
- Determining P-T paths from garnet zoning using a brute-force computational method.
- Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 167 (4): 997. doi:10.1007/s00410-014-0997-3.