Jürgen Konzett

Associate Professor

+43 512 507-54606
Juergen.Konzett@uibk.ac.at

Education and career

since 2004
Associate Professor at the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Innsbruck
Title of habilitation: Transport and storage of potassium and water in the Earth's upper mantle: insights from high pressure-high temperature experiments and the study of natural mantle rocks

1999–2004
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Innsbruck

1997–1999
Postdoctoral Associate, Geophysical Laboratory and Center for High-Pressure Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington

1992–1997
PhD-project at the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ); supervisors: Alan B. Thompson, Peter Ulmer, Russell J. Sweeney, Adrian P. Jones (University College London); thesis title: Phase relations and stability of potassium amphiboles in the Earth’s mantle. An experimental investigation and a field-based study on MARID-type xenoliths

1990–1991
Research Associate, Institute of Mineralogy, Petrology and Crystallography, University of Graz, Austria

1983–1990
undergraduate studies at the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Innsbruck, Austria; supervisor: Prof. Georg Hoinkes (Graz). Thesis title: Petrology of the central Schneeberg Complex and the surrounding crystalline basement, Southern Tyrol

Scientific interests

The role of Ca-phosphates and silicates as carriers of phosphorus, halogens and incompatible trace elements in the upper and lower Earth’s mantle
The crystal chemistry of phosphorus in garnet in crustal and mantle environments
The role of tourmaline as carrier and storage phase for B and Li in subduction zones
Mechanisms and products of hydrous LILE-HFSE metasomatism in subcontinental lithospheric mantle (Kaapvaal Craton/South Africa; southeast Asian peninsula)
Genesis of rare metal-bearing pegmatites in the crystalline basement of the Eastern Alps

Projects

ongoing:

„Ca-phosphates in the deep Earth“; funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, project Nr. P33124)
„Mineralogy and geochemistry of selected pegmatites from the Eastern Alpine crystalline basement: the composition of zircon and muscovite as potential indicators for pegmatite parent melt differentiation and pegmatite economic potential“; in collaboration with and funded by the Austrian Geological Survey

completed:

The role of tourmaline in the transport and storage of boron in the Earth’s crust and boron recycling in subduction zones: a contribution to our understanding of the global boron cycle“; funded by the Tyrolean Science Fund
Emplacement and metamorphic evolution of pegmatites in the Eastern Alpine basement of Southern Tyrol/Italy: a contribution to the understanding of pegmatite genesis and rare element enrichment in a Barrovian-type polymetamorphic environment; funded by the Tyrolean Science Fund