Alea Zoe Kaehne, B.Sc.
Geochemistry Group
Tutor, M.Sc. Student
Room 216, Building B
12249 Berlin
Research Interest
Formation and evolution of Earth´s crust and mantle
Crust-mantle interactions
Siderophile and chalcophile elements in terrestrial materials
MSc project in progress: Variations in Highly Siderophile Elements and Rhenium-Osmium Isotopes of Hornblendites and Peridotites in the Mafic-Ultramafic Complex near Finero (Ivrea-Verbano Zone, Italy)
BSc project: Schwefel-, Selen- und Tellur-Konzentrationen im CM1-Krusten-Mantel-Übergang im Semail-Ophiolithe (Oman)
Work experience
2019-ongoing: Teaching assistant in the Geochemistry Working Group, Freie Universität Berlin
- Lectures: Fundamental Geochemistry (BSc, German), System Earth (BSc German), Geochemistry of Radiogenic Isotopes (MSc German/English)
- Tutoring for students on lecture content, course organization and supervision of exams
Lab experience
- General working in clean lab and mass spectrometry labs
- Rough to fine sample preparation
- Various column chemistries (e.g. HSE, PGE, SVE, Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd)
- Measuring elemental and isotopic abundances using ICP-MS and TIMS
- Compiling data sets
Field Experience
2023: Scotland, mineralogical and tectonic Field Trip, 2 weeks
2022: Ivrea-Verbano Zone, Italy, geochemical and mineralogical Field Trip, 1 week
2021: Corsica, France, mineralogical and tectonic Field Trip, 2 weeks
2021: Nördlinger Ries, Germany, impact-geology Field Trip, 3 days
2021: Alps, Austria, geological mapping Field Trip, 2 weeks
2021: Eifel Mountains, Germany, geochemical and mineralogical Field Trip, 1 week
2020: Oman, mineralogical and tectonic Field Trip, 2 weeks
2019: Fichtel Mountains, Germany, mineralogical and petrological Field Trip, 1 week
2019: Hesse, Germany, sedimentological and stratigraphical Field Trip, 5 days
2019: Southern Bohemian Massif, Austria, geochemical and mineralogical Field Trip, 2 weeks
2019: Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, tectonic Field Trip, 3 days
2018: Harz, Germany, geological Field Trip, 1 week