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)