Education and Professional Experience
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1973 Abitur, Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium, Schweinfurt
- 1973 - 1975 Navy: Military Service, Bremerhaven and Flensburg
- 1975 RWTH Aachen, Immatriculation, Subject: Geology
- 1979 - 1980 University of Natal, South Africa, Study of Geology (Honours), Exploration on Coppersulfides, Anglovaal Mining Lmt., South Africa
- 1981 University of Hawaii, Geological, volcabnological and geochemical study of phreatomagmatic tuffs of the Salt Lake Crater Group, Oahu, Hawaii.
- 1983 Diplom Thesis (RWTH Aachen), Volcanology of phreatomagmatic deposits of the Salt Lake Crater Group, Oahu, Hawaii. Supervisers: G.P.L Walker, H.D. Holland, G. Spaeth.
- 1983 Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Research Scientist. Study of nobel gas systematics in Hawaiian mantle xenoliths.
- 1984 - 1991 Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Research scientist and Ph.D student. Development of a new Sparc Source Mass Spectrometric method and application to chondritic meteorites. Supervisers: A.W. Hofmann and A. Kröner.
- 1991 University of Mainz (G. Wörner), Research scientist and manager of the isotope lab. Geochemical evolution of rift magmas from the Ross Sea Rift, Antarctica.
- 1992 - 1994 University of Karlsruhe (R. Altherr), Research scientist and manager of the ion probe lab. Trace element partitioning between expewrimental Cpx and basanite. Establishment of micro-analytical reference materials.
- 1994 – 1998 University of Heidelberg (R. Altherr), Research scientist and manager of the ion probe lab. Trace element partitioning between expewrimental Cpx and basanite. Establishment of micro-analytical reference materials.
- 1999 - 2001 GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (J. Erzinger, R. Romer), Research scientist. Th-U disequilibrium studies in zeolites. Paleoclimatic studies of the paleo-Dead Sea. Nano-diamonds in Hawaiian xenoliths.
- 2002 - today Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (E. Hegner), Research scientist and manager of the isotope lab (Nd, Sr, Pb).