Plenary speakers
Plenary speaker 1 – Thomas C. Meisel
General and Analytical Chemistry
Montanuniversität Leoben
Franz-Josef-Str. 18
8700 Leoben, Austria
Plenary talk title: Highlights from 36 years of geoanalytical work: what can be learnt for the advancement of geoanalysis
Presenter:
Thomas C. Meisel
Introduction:
Professor Thomas C. Meisel is an experienced chemist and petrologist with expertise in analytical, isotope and environmental geochemistry. His main focus is on developing methods to improve measurement procedures for analysing natural samples. His preferred element of interest are rare earth and platinum group elements, and his preferred measurement principle is inorganic mass spectroscopy. The certification of reference materials and metrological aspects of geoanalytical work have been his main areas of interest over the last three decades. He is the editor in chief of Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research.
Plenary speaker 2 – Michael Wiedenbeck
Head of SIMS Group
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam
Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Telegrafenberg F228; Sektion 3,1
D14473 Potsdam, GERMANY
Plenary talk title: The technical limits of U-Pb geochronology
Presenter:
Michael Wiedenbeck
Introduction:
Michael Wiedenbeck has been using SIMS as his primary research tool for the past 37 years, during which much of his work was devoted to in-situ zircon analyses. He has been head of the Potsdam SIMS user facility since 1998, and has been responsible for a large geometry instrument since 2013. Beyond overseeing the operation of a user facility, Michael has devoted much of his work to the identification and characterization of new isotope ratio reference materials for in-situ analytical methods.
Plenary speaker 3 – Dorrit Jacob
Director, Research School of Earth Sciences
ANU College of Science
Building J8, 142 Mills Road, ACTON
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
Plenary talk title: Towards correlated geochemistry
Presenter:
Dorrit Jacob
Introduction:
Professor Dorrit Jacob is an analytical geochemist and mineralogist with experience across a number of solution and in situ analytical methodologies applied to silicate rocks and biominerals. Starting out at on radiogenic isotope analysis, she quickly broadened her focus to LA-ICPMS and adding phase analytical methods to characterise silicate rocks, diamonds and bio-carbonates. Her interdisciplinary work often asks for the combination of routine methodologies to create new knowledge. Correlating different methods across samples and across scales is currently one of the biggest challenges in interdisciplinary research.
Plenary speaker 4 – Frank Vanhaecke
Atomic & Mass Spectrometry – A&MS research unit
Department of Chemistry
Ghent University
Campus Sterre
Krijgslaan 281 – S12
9000 Ghent，Belgium
Plenary talk title: Use of pneumatic nebulization ICP-MS and laser ablation ICP-MS for studying microplastics
Presenter:
Frank Vanhaecke
Introduction:
Dr. Frank Vanhaecke is a Senior Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry at Ghent University (UGent, Belgium), where he also leads the ‘Atomic & Mass Spectrometry – A&MS’ research group that is specialized in the determination, speciation and isotopic analysis of (ultra)trace elements via ICP-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). His group studies fundamentally-oriented aspects of the technique and develops methods for solving challenging scientific problems in interdisciplinary contexts. Specific topics of research include 2-D and 3-D elemental mapping by means of laser ablation (LA) – ICP-MS, high-precision isotopic analysis using multi-collector ICP-MS and single-event (single-particle and single-cell) ICP-MS.
Plenary speaker 5 – Zheng-Tian Lu
Yan Ji Ci Professor of Physics
University Distinguished Professor
University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
Phone: +86-551-6360-6834
Email: ztlu@ustc.edu.cn
Plenary talk title: Identifying Old Ice and Water with Single-Atom Counting
Presenter:
Zheng-Tian Lu
Introduction:
Zheng-Tian Lu is University Distinguished Professor, Yan Jici Professor of Physics and the Dean of the School of the Gifted Young, the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received a B.Sc. from USTC in 1987 and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1994. Prior to rejoining USTC in 2015 under the Chinese National Recruitment Program for Global Experts, he was a Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a Professor (part-time) at The University of Chicago. Throughout his career, Lu has been developing techniques of laser manipulation and laser spectroscopy of atoms, and applying these techniques to ultrasensitive trace analysis, studying nuclear structure, and testing fundamental symmetries. He received a U.S. Presidential Early Career Award in 2000, was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2006, and received the Society’s Francis M. Pipkin Award in 2009. He served as a member of the U.S. Nuclear Science Advisory Committee in 2011-2013, and as Chair of the Topical Group of Precision Measurement and Fundamental Constants of the American Physical Society in 2015-2016. He serves on the advisory boards of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Hefei National Research Center for Interdisciplinary Sciences at the Microscale, and the School of Physics and Astronomy of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Plenary speaker 6 – Alicia Cruz-Uribe
Edward Sturgis Grew Associate Professor of Petrology and Mineralogy
Graduate Coordinator, School of Earth and Climate Sciences
University of Maine
5790 Bryand Global Sciences Center
Orono, ME 04469
(207) 581-4494
Plenary talk title: Tandem mass spectrometry for the 21st century
Presenter:
Alicia Cruz-Uribe
Introduction:
Dr. Alicia Cruz-Uribe is the Edward Sturgis Grew Associate Professor of Petrology and Mineralogy at the University of Maine. She studied at Dartmouth College (A.B), Northern Arizona University (M.S.), The Pennsylvania State University (Ph.D), and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Postdoc). Her research interests span the fields of solid Earth petrology, geochemistry, and geochronology, and recently she has pursued techniques more broadly within the field of plasma mass spectrometry. In particular, her current research focuses on utilizing tandem mass spectrometry and reaction cell chemistry for geochronologic and nuclear forensic applications in both single and multicollector LA-ICP-MS. She was the 2018 Young Scientist Awardee of the International Association of Geoanalysts, and is a current Distinguished Lecturer for the Association of Women Geoscientists.