Projects
Funded Research Projects
200020_156424 Establishing globally valid tie points for intercalibration of biochronologic and radioisotopic timescales between the latest Permian and middle Jurassic using high-precision U-Pb dating of volcanic ash beds
Swiss National Science Foundation http://p3.snf.ch/project-156424
2000020_162341 Temporal calibration of eruption dynamics of Large Igneous Provinces and correlation to global environmental disturbance with high-precision U-Pb dating of micro-zircon and -baddeleyite
Swiss National Science Foundation http://p3.snf.ch/project-162341
200021_169086 Direct determination of early Earth's orbital parameters through high-precision age determination of sedimentary cycles in Archean and Proterozoic sedimentary deposits
Swiss National Science Foundation http://p3.snf.ch/project-169086
200020_182007 Temporal coupling of environmental change, volcanism and evolution in the geological past through high-precision geochronology
Swiss National Science Foundation (from 1/1/2019)
CRSII5_180253 Quantifying decamillenial changes in carbon cycling, climatic and biotic responses to Late Permian-Early Triassic volcanism. Interdisciplinary Sinergia program with University of Zürich leading house.
Swiss National Science Foundation, http://p3.snf.ch/project-180253
IZSEZ0_180188 Developing new isotope techniques to study magmatic and paleoenvironmental processes.
Swiss National Science Foundation (from 1/1/2019)
Developing state-of-the-art analytical techniques for high-precision U-Pb dating
Performance of the IsotopX PHOENIX thermal ionisation mass spectrometer for high-precision U-Pb geochronology, since 2016 The new mass spectrometer is equipped with a highly sensitive and linear Daly ion counting system and high-resistance 10E12 Ohm Faraday cups for low-level multicollection of small Pb and U ion beams. It is operational since September 2016 and delivers U-Pb dates of 0.02 to 0.01% internal precision in 206Pb/238U age.
