Eric Hellebrand - Background

Associate Specialist
Manager of the Electron Microprobe and X-Ray Fluorescence Facilities

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Office: Rm 612B in POST building Phone:  (+1) 808-956-6193 Fax: (+1) 808-956-5512 E-mail: ericwgh@hawaii.edu Mailing address: Department of Geology and Geophysics University of Hawaii 1680 East-West Road / POST 606 Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 USA

 

[Research Interests]   [Publications]   [Background]   [Teaching]   [Electron Microprobe]

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Education

Dr.rer.nat. (=Ph.D.) in Mineralogy (summa cum laude), Univ. Mainz , May 2001

Dissertation title: Constraints on mantle melting from major and trace element systematics in residual abyssal peridotites.
Supervisors: Dr. Jonathan Snow, Prof. Dr. Albrecht Hofmann

Diplom (=Master's) in Geology (with distinction), RWTH Aachen, October 1996

Thesis title: Geochemistry, petrology and microstructural aspects of abyssal peridotites from the Rodrigues Triple Junction, Indian Ocean.
Supervisors: Dr. Walter Plüger, Prof. Dr. Roland Walter

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Positions held

• Associate Specialist, Geology & Geophysics, Univ. Hawai'i, since August 2011
• Assistant Specialist, Geology & Geophysics, Univ. Hawai'i, 2006-2011

• Research scientist at Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, 2002-2006
• Research scientist at University of Bremen, Germany, 2001-2002
• Postdoctoral fellow at Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, 2000-2001