People of the Department
2010-2011

ENSEIGNANTS

	Urs SCHALTEGGER Ordinary Professor, Director Research interests: Geochronology, high-precision U-Pb dating of magmatic processes; precise temporal calibration of periods of biotic and climatic change in the Mesozoic and in the Miocene; intercalibration of biochronological, astrochronological and chemical timescales; Phanerozoic geodynamic evolution of the Peruvian part of the South American continental margin. Urs.schaltegger@unige.ch; Tel: +41 22 379 66 38 Website
	Lluís FONTBOTÉ Ordinary professor lluis.fontbote@unige.ch Website
	Michael DUNGAN Ordinary professor michael.dungan@unige.ch Website
	Costanza BONADONNA Associate Professor, director of CERG-C Research interests: Sedimentation from volcanic plumes, Plume dynamics, Ash dispersal and civil aviation, Characterization of tephra deposits, Explosive basaltic volcanism, Two-phase flow regimes in low viscosity magmas, Probabilistic assessment of tephra hazards, Quantification of vulnerability in the context of volcanic risk, Assessment of geological risk, Multidisciplinary strategies of risk reduction Costanza.Bonadonna@unige.ch Tel:  +41 22 379 3055 Website
	Denis FONTIGNIE MER (Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche) Research interests: tracing isotopes (Nd-Sr-Pb) on basaltic rocks (recently on Turkish volcanics and Argentinean adakites); crystallography: mineral morphologies and structures related; mass spectrometry (TIMS) operating and technique improvements. Denis.Fontignie@unige.ch Tél. +41 22 376 6646 more ...
	Robert MORITZ MER; associate editor of Mineralium Deposita Research interests: Ore deposits, fluid inclusions, fluids in the earth crust and their relationship with ore formation, metallogeny of the Tethys belt (Balkans, Rhodopes, Caucasus and Zagros), gold metallogeny of the Peruvian Andes, relationship between ore formation and geodynamic processes. Robert.moritz@unige.ch Tel. +41 22 379 66 29 more …
	Susanne SCHMIDT Lecturer (chargée d’enseigement) susanne.schmidt@unige.ch Website (under construction)
	Guy SIMPSON Lecturer (chargé d’ensignement) Research interests: Crustal deformation and formation of sediment basins, interactions between deformation, erosion and sediment deposition, fluid flow and metamorphic reactions, surface evolution modelling.  Guy.Simpson@unige.ch Tel: +41 22 379 66 15 more ...
	Massimo CHIARADIA Scientific collaborator ("adjoint scientifique") Research interests: Isotope geochemistry, petrogenesis of arc magmas in the northern Andes; relationship between magma chemistry, porphyry-type deposits and geodynamics of convergent margins; application of Pb isotopes as tracers of metal sources in ore deposits; applications of radiogenic isotopes to the tracing of natural and anthropogenic processes in the hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere. Massimo.Chiaradia@unige.ch Tel: +41 22 379 66 34 Website
	Corine FRISCHKNECHT Scientific collaborator ("adjointe scientifique"), CERG-C Coordinator (http://www.unige.ch/hazards) Research interests : Geological risk, seismic site effect analysis (ambient noise measurements, modeling), deformation analysis using radar interferometry, geological risk assessment in time and space (using geographical information systems and remote sensing). corine.frischknecht@unige.ch Tel : + 41 22 379 66 02 more …
	Richard SPIKINGS Scientific collaborator ("adjoint scientifique")  Research Interests: Thermochronology and tectonics, with a particular interest in i) the tectonic evolution of northern South America throughout the Phanerozoic, ii) tectonic history of the margins of the Caribbean Plate and iii) extension and exhumation of the Eastern Rhodopes of Bulgaria. 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of ore and associated hydrothermal gangue assemblages. Modes of 40Ar loss from single feldspar crystals, and its application to thermochronology. CV    Publication list

 

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