Collaborative Projects
• Precise U-Pb geochronology of zircon from volcanic ash beds of the Miocene Upper freshwater Molasse. Collaboration with TU Munich.
• High-precision U-Pb dating and isotopic tracing of Miocene acid and mafic magmatism in Torres del Paine and Fitz Roy intrusive complexes (Patagonia). Collaborations with Univ. of Lausanne
• Resolving lead loss and Pb inheritance in complex zircons of the Krkonosze pluton (Poland). Collaboration with University of Wroclaw, Poland.
• Radiogenic isotope geochemistry of rocks of the CAMP (Central Atlantic Magmatic Province) (Collaboration with Padova University, Italy.
• Geochemical, Geochronological and Petrological characteristics of the ophiolitic rocks located between the Central Anatolian Cristalline Massif and the Pontide Belt (Collaboration with Kocaeli University, Turkey, and Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany).
• An investigation of the thermal and tectonic history of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Southern Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone), Colombia. Collaboration with INVEMAR.
• Lead contamination in the domestic environment and in humans: tracing sources using Pb isotopes (Collaboration with Service Cantonale d'Ecotoxicologie, Geneva).
• Development of the stable chlorine isotope technique for analyses in geological and environmental samples.
• High precision strontium isotope chemostratigraphy on carbonates, formaninifera and conodonts (in collaboration with various researchers from Universities of Geneva, Lausanne and Padova).
• Tectonic history of the Eastern Rhodopes, Bulgaria, using field studies combined with thermochronology and geochronology (Collaboration with University of Sofia, Bulgaria).
• Geochronology of brittle and ductile displacement in the central and southern Alps (collaboration with ETH Zürich).
• Investigation of the causes of decay of scintillating detectors in high energy experiments (collaboration with CERN).
• Dating the deposition of the Archean sedimentary Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, containing the oldest biomats on Earth (collaboration with FU Berlin).
• Laboratory intercalibration of ID-TIMS U-Pb dating techniques; precise dating of ionprobe (SIMS) and laser ablation ICP-MS zircon standards (collaborations with Boise State University, Curtin University Perth, and University of Lausanne)
