Matthew Pankhurst
- Position: Visiting Research Fellow
- Email: M.J.Pankhurst@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 5644
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AXA Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: 2015-16, University of Leeds
- densiometric calibration of micro-CT methods for application to geologic material
- measuring the olivine solid-solution using micro-CT
- rapid production of large olivine chemical population datasets of entire eruption records
- merging 3D micro-CT data with Fe-Mg binary diffusion modelling to constrain magmatic timescales
NERC Post-Doctoral Research Assistant: 2013-2014 University of Leeds (PI Dan Morgan)
- magmatic timescales of the 2010 Fimmvörðuháls-Eyjafjallajökull (Iceland) eruption
- Fe-Mg binary 2D diffusion modelling of 1000+ zoned olivine crystals
- streamlined electron back-scatter -diffraction, -imaging and electron probe microanalyser workflows
- established micro-CT applied to volcanic eruption monitoring proof-of-concept
Macquarie PhD Scholarship: 2009-2012, Macquarie University (Spvsr Bruce Schaefer, Simon Turner)
- geochemical and isotopic sources of post-orogenic magmatism
- South American Altiplano (Argentina, Bolivia, Peru), Morocco, SE Australia
- alkali basalt and A-type granite petrogenesis
- Re-Os, Lu-Hf, Sm-Nd, Rb-Sr, U-Pb compositions of whole-rocks and single crystals
- major, minor, trace element compositions of whole-rocks and single crystals
- TIMS, EPMA, EBSD, LA-ICPMS, solution ICPMS, XRF, column chemistry, Carius tube digestion, micro-distillation, piston-cylinder apparatus, SelFrag
Company Director: 2010-2012, Gaiaxiom
- Australian Pty Ltd Company contracting to mineral exploration industry
- Au, U, REE, Fe, C exploration
- NSW, SA, NT
sampling, mapping, literature reviews
Graduate: 2007-2008, Rio Tinto Exploration
- Pilbara (WA), Arnhem Land (NT), New Zealand, West and North Queensland
- Al, Fe, Pb-Zn-Ag
Honours degree: 2006, Monash University
- physicochemistry & geodynamics of a felsic large igneous province in the Mesoproterozoic of South Australia.
Undergraduate degrees: 2003-2005, Monash University
- BA: Philosophy
- BSc: Geoscience
- BA (Monash University)
- BSc (Monash University)
- Hons (Geoscience: Monash University)
- PhD (Isotope geochemistry: Macquarie University)
- Igneous processes
- Volcano monitoring and epistemic risk reduction
- Epistemology of earth and planetary sciences
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