Dr. Einari Suikkanen – Postdoctoral researcher
Einari will work in the PALIN project from 2/2020 to 5/2020. He completed his PhD on episyenites related to rapakivi granites of southeastern Finland just before joining the project. He will contribute in making MCS more accessible by coding a C++ visualization tool to create animations of individual MCS runs.

M.Sc. Ville Virtanen – Doctoral student
Ville will work in the PALIN project from 12/2017 to 8/2021. He graduated from the Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, in 2017 with an excellent Master’s Thesis that studied the petrography, geochemistry, and geochronology of granitic magmatism in central Finland. His PhD work will focus on partial melting experiments on various wallrocks of mafic intrusions. These experiments will be conducted in collaboration with Prof. Max Schmidt at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich.

 

National and international collaborators (in alphabetical order)

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Prof. Wendy Bohrson
Department of Geological Sciences, Central Washington University (CWU)
Wendy is an expert in volcanology, geochemistry, and igneous petrology, and one of the developers of the energy-constrained assimilation-fractional crystallization models. She has about 40 peer-reviewed publications, including two among the top 50 cited papers in Journal of Petrology. She was recently named Central Washington University Distinguished Professor of Research. She currently has collaborations with an international group of researchers (Italy, Sweden, France, South Africa), most of whom are applying her models to their research. She will host the PI at CWU and will take part in teaching the code, model development, data interpretation, and publishing.

MSc Riikka Fred
Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki
Riikka is a PhD student with a 4-year (2018-2021) funding from the Doctoral Programme in Geosciences. The subject of her research is “Geochemical modeling of the parental magma for massive type anorthosites and related Ni-Cu ore potential”. One of the central parts in her research will be modeling of the petrogenesis and geochemical evolution of various plutonic rocks (anorthosites and monzodiorites) related to the Finnish 1.64 Ga rapakivi granites by using Magma Chamber Simulator.

MSc Ville Järvinen
Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki
Ville is an exploration geologist and PhD student interested in orthomagmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits. His research focuses on the petrogenesis and mineral potential of the 2.44 Ga mafic-ultramafic Näränkävaara layered intrusion complex in northeastern Finland. He uses MELTS and the Magma Chamber Simulator to constrain the petrogenesis and geochemical evolution of the various (crustally contaminated) ultramafic cumulates comprising the Näränkävaara complex. His PhD project is funded by the K.H. Renlund’s Foundation (2017-2020).

Dr. Arto Luttinen
Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki
Arto is an expert in Karoo continental flood basalts with 15 peer-reviewed articles published on the subject in high-profile international journals. He is currently a Senior Curator at the Finnish Museum of Natural History and is the former PhD supervisor of the PI. He will provide sample material for studies of the Antarctic intrusions and will take part in data interpretation and publishing of that data.

Dr. Ferenc Molnár
Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)
Ferenc is an internationally recognized expert in PGE-enriched ores related to layered intrusions. He has completed studies in these subjects between 1993 and 2014 in the Sudbury Igenous Complex (Canada) and between 2007 and 2015 in the Duluth Complex, Minnesota (U.S.A.). Active participation in five international projects has resulted in 16 publications in high-profile international scientific journals. Dr. Molnár has introduced results of research into mineral exploration by cooperation with exploration and mining companies (e.g. Wallbridge Mining Ltd., Duluth Metals Ltd.). He will provide his expertise on the geology and petrology of layered intrusions (Duluth and Finland) and take part in publishing activities. He has strong connections to National Resources Research Institute of the University of Minnesota that is responsible for the archiving of the Duluth drill cores.

Prof. Max Schmidt
Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ)
Max is an expert on experimental petrology, which he uses to obtain thermodynamic and crystallographic data and to constrain phase equilibria and element partitioning in order to understand metamorphic and magmatic processes. He has more than 100 publications on related subjects in high-profile journals (e.g., Science, Nature). He will host the PhD student at ETHZ lab and will take part in interpretation and publishing of the results of the melting experiments.

Prof. Frank Spera
Department of Earth Science, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Frank applies the methods of fluid dynamics and transport phenomena to study generation, ascent and eruption of magma including interactions between fluids and rocks and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles on the subject in high-profile journals (e.g., Science, Nature). He is the co-developer of the EC-AFC and MCS models along with Dr. Bohrson and is expert on the magma dynamics and thermodynamics in the models. He will host the applicant/project staff at UCSB and will take part in teaching the code (especially the thermodynamic side of it), model development, data interpretation, and publishing.

Prof. Thomas Wagner
Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Finland
Thomas is a Professor of Economic Geology and is in control of the state-of-the-art geoanalytical facilities at Helsinki. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles on ore genesis and thermodynamical modeling. He will move to RWTH Aachen University in 2017, but will remain as a collaborator in the project.