BENEFICIARY 2 TEAM MEMBERS
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Team leader: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Brey, male, PhD 1973-1976 Australian National University, Canberra; C4 Professor fof Mineralogy; Chief of the Petrology-Geochemstry Group at the GUF; Research Area: Experimental mineralogy and petrology, investigations of stability and composition of minerals under various conditions, archaeometry.
Significance for the project: Prof. G. Brey is the Chief of one of the best equipped centers for study of solid materials in Europe. His great experience in configuring a network will be of particular importance for WP1 of RESTCA-TERCE-NIPMSS.
Yaxley G.M. and Brey G.P., (2004) Phase relations of carbonate-bearing eclogite assemblages from 2.5 to 5.5 GPa: implications for petrogenesis of carbonatites. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 146, 606-619
Brey G.P., Bulatov V.K., Girnis A.V., Harris J.W. and Stachel T. (2004):. Ferropericlase - a lower mantle phase in the upper mantle, Lithos 77, 655-663.
Member of team: Dr. Axel Gerdes, male, Researcher at the GUF; 1994-1997 PhD Promotion; 1997-1999: post-Doc at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology of the University of Granada; 2000-2001: post-Doc (HSO) at British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK; 2001-2002: DFG International Fellowship at NERC Isotope Geosciences Lab, UK; 2002-2003: Research Scientist (HSO) at NERC Isotope Geosciences Lab, UK; Research area: geochemistry and isotope systematic of rocks as well as of natural and industrial materials; analysis of long-lived radionuclides (e.g. 236U, 239Pu, 240Pu, 241Pu ) in environment (methods development and future aspects).
Significance for the project: Dr. A. Gerdes is greatly experienced in application of analytical techniques in both fundamental mineralogy/petrology and geo-environmental studies. He has worked in many laboratories worldwide and his competency in laboratory management will be of particular importance for project implementation.
Gerdes A & Zeh A, (2006): Combined U-Pb and Hf isotope LA-(MC-) ICP-MS analyses of detrital zircons: Comparison with SHRIMP and new constraints for the provenance and age of an Armorican metasediment in Central Germany. Earth and Planetary Science letters, 249/1-2: 47-62.
Liu FL, Gerdes A, Liou JG, Xue H & Liang FH, 2006. SHRIMP U-Pb zircon dating from dolomitic marble, Sulu-Dabie terrane: restriction on the prograde, UHP and retrograde metamorphic ages. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 24, 569–589.
Member of team: Dr. Heidi Höfer, female, mineralogist/crystallographer; Researcher at the GUF; PhD 1989, University of Köln; 1990-1995: Scientific Researcher at the Max Plank Institute, Mainz. Research area: Development of an in-situ method for determining oxidation state of iron in solid materials using microprobe technique ("Flankenmethode"); quantitative analysis of light elements (O, N, B) by electron probe microanalysis.
Significance for the project: Dr. Heidi Höfer is responsible for maintenance and running the laboratory of microprobe which is directly complementary with the core equipment to be supplied during project implementation. This will be of great significance for integrating the purchased SEM-EDS into the existing infrastructure of the UB-FMG.
Lieb, A., Weller, M.T., Henry, P.F., Niewa, R., Pöttgen, R., Hoffmann, R.-D., Höfer, H.E., Schnick, W. (2005): Oxonitridosilicate chlorides – synthesis, single-crystal X-ray and neutron powder diffraction, chemical analysis and 0.2. J. Solid»properties of Ln4[Si4O3+xN7-x]Cl1-xOx with Ln = Ce, Pr, Nd and x State Chem., 178, 976-988.
Höfer, H.E, G.P. Brey and W.O. Hibberson (2004): Iron oxidation state determination in synthetic pyroxenes by electron microprobe. Lithos 73, S51.
Member of team: Marina Lazarov, female, PhD-student at the GUF; BSc/MSc at the Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade (supervised by Prof. Dr. V. Cvetković – project coordinator); Research area: Origin and characteristics of mantle metasomatism in Archean subcontinental mantle (Kaapvaal).
Cvetkovic, V., Downes, H., Prelevic, D., Jovanovic, M., Lazarov, M., 2004. Characteristics of the lithospheric mantle beneath East Serbia inferred from ultramafic xenoliths in Palaeogene basanites, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 148, 335-357.
