Goldschmidt Virtual Conference 2021
Geochemistry and Geosciences in Germany
Geochemistry and Geosciences research in Germany is wide and varied. This leaflet provides information on several German research institutions, programmes and funding organisations displayed at our booth. Got curious? Contact our booth personnel and learn more about research, training, funding and career opportunities in German Geochemistry and Geosciences.
Index
I. Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" (CLICCS)
II. Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen (MARUM)
III. The Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)
IV. The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)
V. The Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics (BGI)
VI. Collaborative Research Centre “Earth - Evolution at the Dry Limit”
VII. Transregio “Late Accretion onto Terrestrial Planets”
VIII. Priority Research Program “Dynamics of Ore Metals Enrichment”
IX. Priority Research Program “Building a Habitable Earth”
X. Research Unit “Diffusion Chronometry of Magmatic Systems”
XI. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
XII. German Academic Exchange Service
XIII. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
XIV. Initiative “Research in Germany”
I. Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS)
Researchers from a wide range of disciplines have joined forces at the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS to investigate how climate and society will co-evolve. The program is guided by the overarching question: "Which climate futures are possible and which are plausible?"
CLICCS is coordinated through Universität Hamburg’s Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) in close collaboration with multiple partner institutions and is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
Related links: https://www.cliccs.uni-hamburg.de/ https://www.cliccs.uni-hamburg.de/career.html
Contact: CLICCS Office Universität Hamburg Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) Bundesstraße 53, D-20146 Hamburg +49 40 42838-4327 [email protected]
II. Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen (MARUM)
MARUM produces fundamental scientific knowledge about the role of the ocean and the ocean floor in the earth system. The dynamics of the ocean and the ocean floor significantly impact the entire earth system through the interaction of geological, physical, biological and chemical processes. These influence both the climate and the global carbon cycle, and create unique biological systems.
MARUM is committed to fundamental and unbiased research in the interests of society and the marine environment, and in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
Related Links: www.marum.de/en/index.html
Cluster of Excellence “The Ocean Floor – Earth’s Uncharted Interface”: www.marum.de/en/The-Ocean-Floor.html
Research Group Organic Geochemistry: www.marum.de/en/about-us/AG-Hinrichs.html
Research Group Petrology of the Ocean Crust: www.ozeankruste.uni-bremen.de/index.php/en/
Contact: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences University of Bremen Leobener Straße 8, D-28359 Bremen +49 421 21865500 [email protected]
III. The Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is a worldwide leading institute of marine research. We discover and understand the ocean from the seafloor to the atmosphere. At GEOMAR, we engage in ocean research internationally, promote talents, innovation, diversity and creativity. We enable the development of sustainable solutions for the protection and benefit of the ocean in dialogue between science, politics and society.
Our research is conducted worldwide in all oceans and adjacent seas using state-of-the art equipment such as deep-sea robots as well as high-end analytical laboratories and access to high-performance computing facilities.
Related Links: www.geomar.de/en/
Job Offers: https://www.geomar.de/en/karriere/open-positions
Contact: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel Wischhofstraße 1-3, D-24148 Kiel +49 431 600-0 [email protected]
IV. The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)
The GFZ is Germany’s national research centre for the solid Earth Sciences. Our mission is to deepen the knowledge of the dynamics of the solid Earth, and to develop solutions for grand challenges facing society. As one out of four departments, Geochemistry plays a prominent role at GFZ.
The Department of Geochemistry investigates geochemical and microbial processes in the earth system. The goal is to identify and quantify the interaction between inorganic, organic and biogeochemical material cycles over geological time scales and from depth to the surface. A focus is placed on generation, transport and transformation processes of matter as well as the formation of geo-resources. The chemical and microbiological processes and the properties of the involved geomaterials, addressed by our research, are highly complex in their heterogeneity and depend on many physical and chemical factors. As part of our research, we look at mineral and hydrocarbon resources in the context of geodynamic and paleoclimatic processes, as well as the interactions between the geo-, hydro-, atmo- and biosphere. Our analytical infrastructure includes e.g. SIMS, TEM, FT-ICR-MS and the HELGES Laboratory.
Related links: • Department of Geochemistry (https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/geochemistry/) • SIMS - Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/inorganic-and-isotope-geochemistry/infrastructure/secondary- ion-mass-spectrometry-sims/) • TEM - Transmission Electron Microscopy (https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/interface-geochemistry/infrastructure/potsdam-imaging-and- spectral-analysis-pisa-facility/fei-tecnai-transmission-electron-microscope-tem/) • FT-ICR-MS - Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/organic-geochemistry/infrastructure/ft-icr-ms/) • HELGES - Helmholtz Laboratory for the Geochemistry of the Earth Surface (https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/earth-surface-geochemistry/infrastructure/helges/) • GFZ Research Infrastructures (https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/scientific-infrastructure/research-infrastructures/)
Job Offers: • https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/career/job-offers/ • https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/career/job-offers/job-detail/5111/
Contact: [email protected]
V. The Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics (BGI)
The Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics (Bayerisches Geoinstitut, BGI) was established in 1986 to study the state of the solid earth and the nature of earth and planetary interiors. The Geoinstitut contains laboratories for performing Earth Science related experiments and has a wide range of complimentary analytical facilities. It is a world-leading institute in high-pressure experimentation and possesses equipment that can simulate conditions ranging from the Earth’s crust to the core.
The institute runs a Master’s program in Experimental Geosciences, and frequently has PhD and post doc opportunities advertised on its website.
Related Links: www.bgi-neu.uni-bayreuth.de
Contact: Prof. Dr. Daniel Frost Bayerisches Geoinstitut University of Bayreuth Universitätsstraße 30, D- 95447 +49 921 55-3700 /-3766 [email protected]
VI. Collaborative Research Centre “Earth - Evolution at the Dry Limit”
The CRC 1211 ‘Earth – Evolution at the dry limit’ is a research consortium of 12 Earth and life-science, chemistry and physics institutes at five German universities (University of Cologne (lead); University Bonn, RWTH Aachen University; University Heidelberg and University of Frankfurt) and the GFZ- Potsdam. The research focusses on the co-evolution of the Earth’s surface processes and biological evolution, in extremely water limited environments. The research is conducted in the Atacama and Namib deserts, in close collaboration with local partner institutions.
Related Links: https://sfb1211.uni-koeln.de/
Contact: Prof. Dr. Tibor J. Dunai University of Cologne Institute of Geology and Mineralogy Zülpicher Str. 49b, D-50674 Cologne +49 221 470-3229 [email protected]
VII. Transregio “Late Accretion onto Terrestrial Planets”
The major theme of the Transregio is to understand the late growth history of the terrestrial planets, from the last giant collisions with moon- to mars-sized planetary embryos to the subsequent late bombardment with smaller objects. This period of planet formation is critically important for understanding the formation of the terrestrial planets and their chemical differentiation, and for constraining the parameters that controlled their subsequent evolution.
This Transregio project is a multidisciplinary approach that combines geochemistry and petrology, remote sensing and planetary geology, and geodynamic and impact modelling.
Related link: https://www.trr170-lateaccretion.de
Contact: Dr. Sabine Hunze University of Münster Institute for Planetology Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, D-48149 Münster +49 251 83-33424 [email protected]
VIII. Priority Research Program “Dynamics of Ore Metals Enrichment”
DOME (Dynamics of Ore Metals Enrichment) is a Priority Research Program that coordinates 26 active projects. The goal of DOME is to find solutions to fundamental questions of element transport and ore formation in heterogeneous chemical systems that are complex, dynamic and highly transient.
The originality of this program lies in the coordination of empirical field-related studies that define the geological/mineralogical framework of natural ore systems with experimental work and numerical models that provide a quantitative understanding of the processes involved.
Related Links: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/spp2238/
Contact: Dr. Maximilian Korges University of Potsdam Institute for Geosciences Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam +49 331 977-5836 [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Max Wilke University of Potsdam Institute for Geosciences Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, D-14476 Potsdam +49 331 977-5108 [email protected]
IX. Priority Research Program “Building a Habitable Earth”
The Priority Programme contributes to the still open question how Earth became the only known habitable planet by involving more than 25 earth science research groups from throughout Germany. The three most critical topics central to this SPP are • the compositions and sources of Earth’s building materials • the Earth’s early internal processing into crust, mantle, and core • the evolution of the ocean-atmosphere system.
The core approach is to use a terrestrial and extra-terrestrial rock record to reconstruct key parameters and processes that set the stage on which life subsequently formed and evolved.
Related Links: https://habitableearth.uni-koeln.de/ https://geologie.uni-koeln.de/index.php?id=1935
Contact: Prof. Dr. Carsten Münker University of Cologne Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Köln +49 221 470-3198 [email protected]
X. Research Unit ”Diffusion Chronometry of Magmatic Systems“
Processes occur in and on the earth over a range of hierarchically arranged timescales. Determining the durations of processes on the shorter end of this time-spectrum has been a challenge, but Diffusion Chronometry has emerged as a method with the promise of a solution in some situations.
In this project, we use high temperature magmatic systems as an excellent natural laboratory to develop and calibrate these tools. An interdisciplinary group of field geologists, experimentalists and modelers at the Universities of Bochum and Hannover are working together on seven different complementary projects to address this problem.
Contact: Linda Sobolewski (Science Coordinator) Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics Universitätstrasse 150, D-44801 Bochum +49 157 51811792 [email protected]
XI. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The AvH promotes academic cooperation between excellent researchers and other professionals from abroad and from Germany by granting research fellowships and awards. www.humboldt-foundation.de
XII. German Academic Exchange Service
DAAD, a private, publicly funded, self-governing organisation of higher education institutions in Germany, supports over 100,000 students and researchers around the globe annually to go to or from Germany for a research or study stay. www.daad.org
XIII. German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
The DFG is the central self-governing research-funding organisation in Germany. It serves all branches of science and the humanities by funding research projects at universities and other research institutions. www.dfg.de
XIV. Initiative “Research in Germany”
“Research in Germany” is an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It presents Germany as a country of research and innovation and creates a forum for international cooperation. The initiative is implemented by the International Office of the BMBF, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Together with research institutions and networks “Research in Germany“ provides detailed information on the German research landscape and research and career opportunities in Germany. www.research-in-germany.org
Contact: Dr. Annina Lottermann Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn, Germany +49 (0)228 8852802 [email protected]
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