Mineralogie - Geochemie

PD Dr. Meinert Rahn

HSK
5232 Villigen - HSK
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

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)

Current Projects

Time-temperature development of the rocks along and within the German/French upper Rhine graben (Ph.D. project, in collaboration with J. Keller and K. Link, Freiburg).

Reaction of an upper plate to varying subduction conditions as exemplified by FT dating in sediments of the deep sea trench at the Chile triple junction (PhD project, in collaboration with J. Behrmann and B. Heberer, Freiburg)

(U-Th)/He and FT dating along tunnel transsects through the European Alps: thermal and topographical evolution (in collaboration with C. Spiegel and W. Frisch Tübingen)

Thermal and denudation history of the European Alps based on FT dating (in collaboration with D. Seward, Zürich, H. Sinclair, A. Vernon, Edingburgh, Peter van der Beek, Grenoble).

Progressive low-grade metamorphism in the Olympic Subduction Complex and the adjacent San Juan Islands, Washington State (in collaboration mit M. Brandon, Yale, and S. Potel, Giessen).

The link between zircon fission track and radiation damage annealing: aneealing processes and geologic implications (in collaboration with T. Geisler-Wierwille, Münster).

The extension of the Mesozoic thermal event from the Black Forest into the Swiss crystalline basement.

Dating and age relationships of tuffs and intrusive bodies in the Hegau.