Technical and analytical experience
- Accumulated extensive experience on the electron microprobe (EPMA) during 9 years of post-graduate research (includes operating, teaching and data interpretation) using microanalytical instruments:
- JEOL JXA8200 Superprobe with five wavelength dispersive X-ray (WDX) spectrometers
- JEOL JSM6310 scanning electron microscope equipped with an Oxford Link ISIS energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectrometer and a WDX spectrometer
- Seven years technical experience making fused pellets for XRF and also operating Bruker Pioneer S4 X-ray fluorescence spectrometer at the Institute of Earth Science, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Austria
- Making pellets and using XRD instruments
Computational skills
- Extensive programming skills using MatLab, Visual Basic and Visual Studio
- Extensive experience using ArcGIS to build geological databases (e.g. DML database)
- Extensive experience using THERMOCALC and Perple_X
