Catharina Heckel
PhD student – AG Woodland (Physikalisch-Chemische Mineralogie)
FIERCE – Frankfurt Isotope and Element Research Center
RESEARCH TOPIC
Sheared peridotites: linking deformation and metasomatism contributing to the onset of craton destabilization
ACADEMIC CAREER
Since 10/2019 | PhD student in Geoscience Goethe University Frankfurt/Germany |
04/2019 – 10/2019 | Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant (EPMA, SEM) Goethe University Frankfurt/Germany |
04/2015 – 03/2019 | Student Research and Teaching Assistant (EPMA, SEM) Goethe University Frankfurt/Germany |
10/2015 – 02/2019 | MSc Geoscience (Mineralogy) Goethe University Frankfurt/Germany |
10/2012 – 02/2016 | BSc Geoscience Goethe University Frankfurt/Germany |
HONORS, AWARDS, etc.
07/2015 – 12/2018 | Student Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Petrological and geochemical analysis of ultramafic xenoliths from the subcratonic, lithospheric mantle (Kaapvaal-Craton)
- Development of EPMA techniques on the microscale (trace elements, flank method)