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Research Interests:

Development and improvement of micro-analytical techniques for isotope analysis in geological materials with a special emphasis on high-precision Laser-Ablation MC-ICP-MS and SIMS U-Th-Pb dating techniques.
Radiometric dating and the derivation of the duration of geological events and processes with a main focus on the orogenic and anorogenic formation and evolution of continental crust.
Petrochronology: Linking radiometric age information with metamorphic processes; analytical issues, theory and applications.

Development of U-Th-Pb in-situ dating techniques (LA-MC-ICP-MS, SIMS, LASS) for xenotime.
Advancing the petrochronology of temperature-dominated metamorphic processes by testing and enhancing the consistency and reproducibility of accessory mineral in-situ U-Th-Pb dating and petrology. -> references
Development of a tool-box to understand the petrochronological evolution of metabasic rocks by combining petrology with in-situ U-Th-Pb geochronology. -> references
Petrochronology of hight temperature metamorphism; the age, duration and rates of metamorphic processes in the lower continental crust.
Geochronological and isotope geochemical aspects of the interaction of mantle and lower crustal processes in the Ivrea-Verbano Zone, Southern Alps, Italy. -> references
Geochronology and isotope geochemistry of pre-Variscan plutonism in the Austroalpine Ötztal-Stubai complex, Eastern Alps, Austria.
Modelling of isotope fractionation effects in geomaterials.
Other running projects (mainly geochronologically oriented) are located in Thailand, Carpathians, Cameroon, Turkey, ...