Prof. Dr. Monika Koch-Müller

• Education:

• 1976 – 1983
  Freie Universität Berlin Study of Mineralogy, Chemistry and Geology
  
  

• 1983
  Diploma in Mineralogy
  
  

• 1984 – 1989
  Technische Universität Berlin PhD position in mineralogy
  
  

• 1989
  PhD in Mineralogy, TU Berlin
  
  

• 1997
  Post doctoral thesis (Habilitation) in Mineralogy, TU Berlin
  
  

• 1998
  Lehrbefugnis in Mineralogy, TU Berlin
  
  

Employment:

• 1984 – 1989
  Scientific co-worker TU Berlin
  
  

• 1990 – 1996
  Assistant professor (C1) TU Berlin
  
  

• 1996 – 1997
  Scholarship holder (DFG/TU Berlin)
  
  

• 1998 – 1999
  Postdoctoral Research Associate at the German research centre for Geosciences, Potsdam
  
  

• 2000 – 2001
  Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Geophysical Laboratory, Washington DC
  
  

• 2001 – 2015
  Staff member at the German research centre for Geosciences, GFZ, Potsdam
  
  

• Since 2015
  Head of the section 3.3 "Chemistry and Physics of Earth Materials" of GFZ
  
  

• Since 2007
  Professor, apl. at Technische Universität Berlin
  
  

• 6 most important:

• Koch-Müller M., Mrosko M., Gottschalk M. and Schade U. (2012) Pressure-induced transitions in Ilvaite studied by in-situ Mid/Far Micro-FTIR spectroscopy. Europ. J. Mineral., 24, 831 – 838.

• Koch-Müller M. and Rhede D. (2010) IR absorption coefficients for water in nominally anhydrous high-pressure minerals. American Mineralogist, 95, 770 – 775.

• Feenstra A., Rhede D., Koch-Müller M., Wiedenbeck M. and Heinrich W. (2009) Hydrogen zoning in zinc-bearing staurolite from a high-P, low-T diasporite (Samos, Greece): a combined EMP-SIMS-FIB-FTIR study. American Mineralogist, 94, 737 – 745.

• Lathe C., Koch-Müller M., v. Westrenen W., Müller H.-J., Schilling F. R. and Lauterjung J. (2005) The influence of OH in coesite on the kinetics of the coesite-quartz phase transition. Am. Mineral., 90, 36.

• Koch-Müller M., Matsyuk S. and Wirth R. (2004) Hydroxyl in omphacites and omhacitic clinopyroxenes of upper mantle to lower crustal origin beneath the Siberian platform. Am. Mineral., 89, 921 – 931.

• Koch-Müller M., Dera P., Fei Y., Reno B.L., Sobolev N.V., Hauri E. and Wysocznaski R. (2003) OH- in synthetic and natural coesite. Am. Mineral., 88, 1436 ? 1445.

• Member of the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft

• Member of the Mineralogical Society of America

• Member of the European Geoscience Union

• Member of the American Geophysical Union

• Member of the Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES)

• Member of the DESY-Petra-III large volume press consortium

• Advisory Board of the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, 2013 – 2015

• Associate editor of the European Journal of Mineralogy, starting in August 2014

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the "Irmgard and Michael Abs-Foundation", since 2012

• Member of the Board Review of the German Science Foundation (DFG) in FK 316: Geochemisty, Mineralogy, Crystallography, 2012 – 2020 (spokeswomen)

• Member of the IMA Medail Committee, 2011 – 2015

• Guest editor of the European Journal of Mineralogy, 2011

• Member of the MSA distinguished lecture committee, 2010 – 2013

• Head of the Organisation Committee of the ECMS2011 conference in Potsdam, Germany, 2009 – 2011

• Member of the Board Review of the Austrian Science Foundation Panel of the Austria, 2008

• Secretary and Program Chair for Mineralogy within the European Geoscience Union (EGU), 2007 – 2010

Soft Skills

• Scuba diving since 1984

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