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Geo- and Cosmochemistry

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PD Dr. Jens Hopp - e-Mail Dipl.-Phys. Institut für Geowissenschaften Im Neuenheimer Feld 234-236 D-69120 Heidelberg Tel.: 06221/54-4895 -4887 FAX: 06221/54-4805

 

 

• Education and employment

  1999	Diplom in physics (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik/Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Heidelberg)
  2002	PhD. (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik/Naturwissenschaftliche Gesamtfakultät, Universität Heidelberg)
  2003-2007	Member of research staff (Mineralogisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg
  2004-2007	Research grant funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  2008-	Member of research staff at the Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg
  2016	Habilitation: Noble gas mantle geochemistry, geochronology and cosmochronology



• Research interests and current projects
  • Mantle noble gas isotope geochemistry
    • Subcontinental lithospheric mantle
    • Hotspot-Magmatism
    • Carbonatites
    • Noble gas isotope systematics and geodynamical implications
  • ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar-dating of rocks and minerals
    • Metamorphic and volcanic rocks
    • Meteorites
  • Noble gas geochemistry of noble gases in subduction zones
    • Search for potential carrier phases of noble gases in HP-MP mineral phases
    • Slab related noble gases in the mantle wedge 
    • Reconstruction of volatile element cycles in subduction zone environments


• Miscellaneous
  • Member of the Geochemical Society
  • Responsible for laser security at Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg
  • Responsible for radioactive security at Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg


• Selected publications
  • Trieloff M., Jessberger E.K., Herrwerth I., Hopp J., Fiéni C., Ghélis M., Bourot-Denise M. and Pellas P. (2003). Structure and thermal history of the H-chondrite parent asteroid revealed by thermochronometry. Nature 422, 502-506.
  • Hopp J., Trieloff M. and Altherr R. (2004) Neon isotopes in mantle rocks from the Red Sea region reveal large-scale plume-lithosphere interaction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 219, 61-76
  • Hopp J. and Trieloff M. (2005) Refining the noble gas record of the Réunion mantle plume source: implications on mantle geochemistry, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 240, 573-588
  • Hopp J., Trieloff M., and Altherr R. (2007) Noble gas compositions of the lithospheric mantle below the Chyulu Hills volcanic field, Kenya. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 261, 635-648.
  • Hopp J. and Trieloff M. (2008) Helium deficit in high ³He/⁴He parent magmas: pre-degassing fractionation, not a "helium paradox". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, Q03009, doi:10.1029/2007GC001833.
  • Hopp J., Trieloff M., Brey G., Woodland A.B., Simon N.S.C., Wijbrans J.R., Siebel W., Reitter E. (2008) ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar-ages of phlogopite in mantle xenoliths from South African kimberlites: Evidence for metasomatic mantle impregnation during the Kibaran orogenic cycle, Lithos, 106, 351-364.