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CURRICULUM VITAE – URS SCHALTEGGER


University address: Département de Minéralogie
  Université de Genève
  Rue des Maraîchers 13
  1205 Genève, Switzerland
  Tel. +41 (0)22 379 66 38
  Fax: +41 (0)22 379 32 10
  e-mail: urs.schaltegger@unige.ch

Professional Career:

1984 Diploma in Mineralogy-Petrography of University of Berne
1989 PhD degree of University of Berne
1989-1991 Post-doctoral Fellow of the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds in Toronto (Canada), at the Royal Ontario Museum, Department of Geology, Geochronology Laboratory, with Dr. T.E. Krogh
1991-1994 Research Fellow of Schweizerischen Nationalfonds at Centre de Géochimie de la Surface, CNRS, in Strasbourg (France), with PD Dr. P. Stille.
10-12/1993 Research Fellow at Royal Ontario Museum, Department of Geology, Geochronology Laboratory, with Dr. T.E. Krogh and Dr. F. Corfu
1994-1997 Research Fellow at ETH Zürich, with Prof. D. Gebauer, supported by the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds and ETH Zürich.
6/1996 Research stay at Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, with Prof. W. Compston und Dr. M. Fanning
10/1996 Degree of Lecturer/Assistant Professor (Privatdozent) at ETH Zürich.
1997 Scientific assistant of Prof. C.A. Heinrich, at Institute for Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources, ETH Zürich
1998-2001 Oberassistent/Maître-Assistant of Prof. A.N. Halliday, at Institute for Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources, ETH Zürich
2001-2008 Professeur adjoint at the Department of Mineralogy, University of Geneva, Switzerland
from 2008 Professeur ordinaire at the Department of Mineralogy, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Published papers

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Last published papers

2011

Schefer S., Cvetovic V. Fügenschuh B., Kounov A., Ovtcharova M., Schaltegger U. & Schmid S.M. (2011) Cenozoic granitoids in the Dinarides of southern Serbia: age of intrusion, isotope geochemistry, exhumation history and significance for the geodynamic evolution of the Balkan Peninsula. Int. J. Earth Sciences, doi:10.1007/s00531-010-0599

2010

Allibon J., Ovtcharova M., Bussy F., Cosca M., Schaltegger U., Bussien D. and Lewin E. (2010) The lifetime of an ocean island volcano feeder zone: constraints from U-Pb on coexisting zircon and baddeleyite, and 40Ar/39Ar age determinations (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands). Can. J. Earth Sci., in press

Bouilhol P., Schaltegger U., Chiaradia M., Ovtcharova M., Stracke A., Burg J.-P. & Dawood H.(2010) Timing of juvenile arc crust formation and evolution in the Sapat Complex (Kohistan-Pakistan). Chem. Geol., doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.11.013

Kotkova J., Schaltegger U. and Leichmann J. (2010) Two types of ultrapotassic plutonic rocks in the Bohemian Massif – coeval intrusions at different crustal levels. Lithos 115, 163-176

Schoene B., Guex J., Bartolini A., Schaltegger U. and Blackburn T.J. (2010) Correlating the end-Triassic mass extinction and flood basalt volcanism at the 100,000-year level. Geology 38, 387-390

Schoene B., Schaltegger U., Latkoczy C. & Günther D. (2010) A new method integrating ID-TIMS U-Pb geochronology with zircon trace element analysis. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74, 7144-7159

Ustaszewski K., Kounov A., Schmid S.M., Schaltegger U., Frank W., Krenn E.& Fügenschuh B. (2010) Evolution of the Adria-Europe plate boundary in the northern Dinarides ­ from continent-continent collision to back-arc extension. Tectonics 29, TC6017, 34pp., doi:10.1029/2010TC002668