Post-Doc

Tadesse Alemu

Host: David Shuster and Nicholas Swanson-Hysell

I am the UC President's postdoctoral fellow. I did my PhD at Oklahoma State University where I used field sedimentologic and structural, and remote sensing techniques to constrain the geodynamic evolution of an exhumed IntraCONtinental Sag (ICONS) basin.

Currently, I am doing a (U-Th)/He dating combined with paleomagnetic constraints to provide the necessary data for the testing of mechanisms for large scale exhumation following Neoproterozoic collisional orogenesis in the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Particularly,...

Guleed Ahmed Hussein Ali

Host: Paul Renne

Sarah Arveson

I am an experimental high-pressure mineral physicist. My current research pursuits involve chemical mixing (and de-mixing) in planetary interiors and melting of materials at high pressures. I employ laser-heated diamond anvil cells and a variety of in-situ and ex-situ techniques to characterize material properties in order to understand planetary interiors.

Curtis Baden

Host: Roland Bürgmann

Marie Bergelin

Host: Paul Renne

John Carter

Host: Paul Renne

Yifang Cheng

Host: Richard Allen

Kaitlin Creamer

Host: Jill Banfield

Kelian Dascher-Cousineau

Host: Roland Bürgmann

Flora Hochscheid

Postdoctoral Researcher

I graduated in December 2022 with a Ph.D. degree in geology and geochemistry at the University of Strasbourg (France).

The main goals of my Ph.D. thesis were to (i) constrain the processes of mantle exhumation related to ocean opening at rifted passive margins, (ii) characterize sources of fluid leading to serpentinization, and (iii) quantify mass fluxes and particularly the transfer of transition metals during serpentinization. To achieve this, I combined petrological and geochemical analyses of natural serpentinites collected in the Alpine Tethys ophiolites and conducted...