PD Dr. Dominik Hezel
Akademischer Oberrat
CV
Since 2021: | Akademischer Oberrat (~Associate Professor) at the Institute for Geosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt |
2018: | University of Cologne Albertus-Magnus teaching award |
2020: | University of Cologne Albertus-Magnus teaching award |
2016-2020: | Akademischer Oberrat (~Associate Professor) at the Institute for Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne |
2017: | Certificate: ›Professional Teaching Competence for Higher Education‹ North Rhine-Westphalia |
2015: | Habilitation in Mineralogy – Presentation Title: ›Was uns Big Data Neues über die Erde verrät‹ (›Data Mining & Big Data in Earth & Planetary Sciences‹) |
2011-2016: | Akademischer Rat (~Assistant Professor) at the Institute for Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne |
2007-2011: | Researcher Meteorites at The Natural History Museum, London |
2004-2006: | Associate researcher at the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy in Cologne, University of Cologne |
2004: | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Department of Cosmochemistry in Mainz |
2003: | PhD at the University of Cologne – Thesis title ›The formation of SiO2-rich components in the early solar system‹ |
2001: | Research visit at the Hawai’i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, SOEST at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa with a DAAD-grant. |
2000: | Diploma at the Institute for Geosciences, University Heidelberg |
Research Interests
Cosmochemistry
- Formation and evolution of the solar system from its initial stage of a protoplanetary disk to the formation of the planets
- The chemical relationship of chondrules and matrix (complementarity) to understand the spatial relationship of the major chondrite components
- Formation conditions of chondrules and their precursor grains and aggregates
- Formation of dust- and igneous rims around chondrules and other comments, and the relationship to matrix
- Stable (Fe, Mg, Si) and radiogenic (Hf-W) isotopes in chondritic components to understand evaporation and re-condensation processes in the early Solar System
- Origin, formation and evolution of Ca, Al-rich inclusions (CAIs)
- Studying 3D structures of meteorites using tomography
Geochemistry
- Fe isotopes in high temperature rocks
- The light elements Li, Be and B in magmatic systems and tourmaline
- Data-Mining, -Analysis and Computer Modelling
- Data-mining and analysis of large geochemical and cosmochemical data-sets
- Programming of mineralogical tools and apps
- Image Analysis
Analytical Expertise
I use a wide range of analytical technique to study extra-terrestrial and terrestrial samples, mostly: electron microprobe, large data mining and analysis, X-ray fluorescence, 3D µ-Tomography, solution based mass spectrometry, optical-emission sepectrometry, OES, X-ray diffraction and µ-Raman spectrometry.
Misc
- Co-Applicant of the Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur NFDI4Earth (National Research Data Infrastructure)
- Contracted research for the industry in e.g., the area of material development, including accompanying quality control measures
- Cooperations with national and international universities and institutions
Teaching
- Micro-Analytic I & II (EPMA, REM und µXRF)
- Cosmochemistry (including a 60 page script that I wrote for the students)
- Cosmochemistry PhD-student online short course within the German Mineralogical Society
- DMG-Doktorandenkurs Kosmochemie
- Geoscience Modelling using Mathematica I (Introduction and Basics)
- Geoscience Modelling using Mathematica II (Petrology, Geochemistry, Cosmochemistry)
- Geochemical & Cosmochemical Seminar
- 2. Geoscientific Seminar
- Hands-On training Mineralogy
- (Introduction to Petrology, including an interactive script written in Mathematica)
- (Planetology)
- (EXCEL for scientists)
First supervisor of ca. 40 theses in Germany & England (PhD, MSc, BSc, Diploma)