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Romain Meyer

Post doctor

Centre for Geobiology

Department of Earth Science

Geobiology

Title: Post doctor

Phone: +47 55 58 35 73

E-mail:

Visiting address: Allegaten 41

Room number: Room 4101B Realfagbygget

Theory and experiments concerning silicate melting and solidification processes, including the formation and evolution of the ocean crust, layered mafic intrusions, planetary evolution, plate tectonics, extensional systems and volcanism, and the formation of large igneous provinces. Ore 

Analytical Geochemnistry

Igneous Petrology

Ore fields related to layered intrusions

Volcanology

Analogue modeling (volcanic structures on Earth and Venus)

2010 – 2011      Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology, Washington and Lee University, VA, USA.

2008 – 2010      Associate postdoctoral researcher, MIT, MA, USA

2008                 Doctor in Sciences: Geology (Ph.D.)

                        Katholieke Universiteit Leuven          

2003                 Diploma in mineralogy (Excellent)                                             

                         Friedrich-Schiller-University                          

1999                 Diplom-Geologen-Vorprüfung     

                        Friedrich-Schiller-University                   

1999                 Diplom-Mineralogen-Vorprüfung             

                        Friedrich-Schiller-University                

Fall 2014                 University of Bergen, Norway: Mikroskopi (GEOV241)

Spring 2014             University of Bergen, Norway: Magmatisk og metamorf petrologi (GEOV242)

Fall 2013                 University of Bergen, Norway: Mikroskopi (GEOV241)

Fall 2012                  University of Bergen, Norway: Innføring i mineralogy og petrografi (GEOV 103)

Fall 2012                 University of Bergen, Norway: Mikroskopi (GEOV241)

Spring 2012               University of Bergen, Norway: Innføring i geokjemi
 (GEOV109)

Fall 2011                  University of Bergen, Norway: Innføring i mineralogy og petrografi (GEOV 103)

Spring 2011               University of Bergen, Norway: Innføring i geokjemi
 (GEOV109)

Fall 2011                 University of Bergen, Norway: Mikroskopi (GEOV241)

Spring 2011             Washington and Lee University, USA: San Francisco Mountains Field Trip

Spring 2011             Washington and Lee University, USA: Volcanology (GEOL105)

Winter 2010             Washington and Lee University, USA: Planetary Geology (GEOL 104)

Winter 2010             Washington and Lee University, USA: Natural Disasters (GEOL 197)

Fall 2010                 Washington and Lee University, USA: General Geology with Field Emphasis (GEOL 100D)

Fall 2010                 Washington and Lee University, USA: Introductory Geophysics (GEOL 275)