Current and former team members
Starring, in chronological order:
- Chrstiaan van Buchem, PhD student 2020-2024, will work with Yamila Miguel (Leiden), Jean-Michel Desert (UvA), and myself on silicate melt evaporation on exoplanets.
- Someone (....to be hired), PhD student 2020-2024, will work with Inga Kamp (Groningen), Rens Waters (SRON), Carsten Dominik (UvA) and myself on light element cycles during accretion.
- Jitse Alsemgeest, PhD student 2020-2024, will work with Fraukje Brouwer and a range of international collaborators on analogues for hydrothermal systems on Mars.
- Linus Streicher, PhD student 2019-2023, is working with Fraukje Brouwer and myself on zircon-melt partitioning.
- Jiejun Jing, PhD student 2019-2023, is working with Yanhao Lin and myself on volatiles in the Moon.
- Dr. Josh Snape, Marie Curie fellow 20018-2020, is doing experiments to constrain the age and evolution of the Moon.
- Dr. Dennis Hoening, Origins Center fellow 2018-2021, works on the coupled hydrogen and carbon cycles during the evolution of rocky (exo)planets.
- Alix Seegers, PhD student 2017-2022, is working with Pieter Vroon and myself on isotope partitioning during core formation.
- Yue Zhao, PhD student 2015-2020, is working with Arie van den Berg, Doris Breuer, and Matthieu Laneuville on a wide range of lunar evolution projects.
Former PhDs and postdocs:
- Dr. Margarita Merkulova, postdoc 2018-2019, worked on setting up XAFS measurements in metal alloys, is now a postdoc at the University of Liege, Belgium.
- Dr. Stefanie Luginbuehl, postdoc 2015-2019, who worked with me on lunar interior evolution and a range of synchrotron projects, is now back in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Dr. Melissa Martinot, who worked with Jessica Flahaut, Sebastien Besse, and myself on lunar remote sensing, will soon be a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Central Florida, USA.
- Dr. Yanhao Lin, who worked with me on lunar magma ocean evolution, is currently postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institute for Science, USA.
- Dr. Edgar Steenstra, who worked on planeteray differentiation and core formation, is currently Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Institute for Science, USA.
- Dr. Kaustubh Hakim, PhD student 2014-2018, worked with Carsten Dominik and myself on the role of carbon in rocky exoplanets. He is now a postdoc at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
- Dr. Jurrien Knibbe, PhD student 2013-2018, worked with Yingwei Fei and myself on constraining the interior evolution of Mercury using a combination of high-pressure experiments and numerical simulations. He is currently postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Observatory in Brussels, Belgium.
- Dr. Jessica Flahaut, Earth Science Veni fellow 2013-2016, focused on improving the interpretation of remote sensing data on Mars, and currently holds a CNRS position at Nancy, France.
- Dr. Nicci Potts, joint PhD student with Mahesh Anand at the Open University, UK, focused on incorporation of trace elements in lunar apatites.
- Dr. Josepha Kempl, PhD student 2009-2013. Josepha worked on experimental constraints on silicon stable isotope fractionation between metal and silicate, to increase our knowledge of core formation processes. She set up her own consultancy company focusing on restoration and renovation of rocky materials in historic buildings, check out muurpathologie.nl (in Dutch)
- Dr. Nachiketa Rai, postdoc 2009-2013. Nachiketa's research focused on in situ physical property determinations of lunar magma, and on improving geochemical constraints on core formation in Mars, the Moon, and Earth. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
- Dr. Aurelia Colin, postdoc 2011-2013. Aurelia worked on the detection of water on the lunar surface using in situ analyses by Raman and LIBS, and is currently in Toulouse.
- Dr. Jellie de Vries, PhD student 2007-2011. Jellie worked on thermochemical convection models of lunar evolution, and on plagioclase-melt partitioning.
- Dr. Mirjam van Kan Parker, PhD student 2007-2011. Mirjam worked on projects related to measurements of the density of lunar magma, and on mineral-melt trace element partitioning during lunar interior melting and crystallisation processes. She is now a Research Officer at the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University.
- Dr. Jelle van Sijl, PhD student 2006-2011. Jelle worked on computational and experimental aspects of trace element distribution between minerals and hydrous fluids. He now works as a geohydrologist at Royal Haskoning.
- Dr. Elodie Tronche, postdoc 2007-2011. Elodie worked on petrological models for the crystallisation of the Martian and lunar magma oceans (among many other things!). She is now a French teacher in Amsterdam.
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