Mineralogie - Geochemie

PD Dr. Meinert Rahn

ENSI
Industriestrasse 19
CH - 5200 Brugg Schweiz

Curriculum vitae

Born on October 7, 1965 in Berlin (W-Germany), married, three children

1984-89
Studies on Earth Sciences at the University of Basel, Graduation with a Diploma thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. M. Frey, title: "Petrographie und Geologie des Minugrates im hinteren Turtmanntal, VS"

1990-94
Ph.D. thesis (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation). Supervision by Prof. M. Frey (University of Basel) and Dr. A. J. Hurford (UCL, London). title: "Incipient Metamorphism of the Glarus Alps: Petrology of the Taveyannaz Sandstone and Fission Track Dating". Graduation April, 1994, with "magna cum laude".

1994-97
Assistantship at the Institut für Mineralogie, Petrologie und Geochemie (IMPG) in Freiburg, Germany, collaboration with Prof. Dr. K. Bucher.

1997-98
1-year grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation for a stage at Yale University, title of the project: "Progressive low-temperature metamorphism of an accretionary wedge, Cenozoic Olympic Subduction Complex, western Washington State".

1998-2001
Return to Freiburg, Assistantship at the Institut für Mineralogie, Petrologie und Geochemie (IMPG)

Since 2001
Member of HSK, Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate, scientific evaluation of geological disposal of nuclear waste

Since 2007
Head, Section on Geology, scientific evaluation of sites for geological disposal of nuclear waste and nuclear power plants

Affiliations

Schweizerische Mineralogisch-Petrographische Gesellschaft (since 1989)
European Union of Geosciences (since 1991)
Geological Society of America (since 1994)
American Geophysical Union (since 1997)
Association of Swiss Geologists (since 1998)
Associate Editor of Terra Nova (since 2009)

Current Projects

Dating and age relationships of tuffs and intrusive bodies from the Hegau and Kaiserstuhl volcanoes. Magmatic source characterization by apatite composition (in collaboration with A. von der Handt, Freiburg, R. Selbekk, Oslo, and A. Zaugg, Frauenfeld)

Metamorphic and exhumation history of the Songpan-Garzê flysch, in the provinces Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai, China (in collaboration with H. Wang, Beijing)

(U-Th)/He and fission track dating along tunnel transects and selected tectonic units of the European Alps: thermal and topographical evolution (in collaboration with C. Spiegel, Bremen, and W. Frisch Tübingen)

Detection of Mesozoic and Tertiary thermal events in the Black Forest and crystalline basement of Northern Switzerland (in collaboration with J. Keller and K. Link, Freiburg)

Dating of Quaternary glacial sediments in Northern Switzerland with cosmogenic nuclides: Time constraints on the sedimentation of the Upper and Lower Deckenschotter (in collaboration with J. Kuhlemann, ENSI and C. Schlüchter, Bern)

Very slow exhumation of the crystalline basement in Sweden and Finland: Influence of apatite composition on fission track and (U-Th)/He dating