Dr. Martin Kutzschbach
PostDoc
Research Interests
I focus on applied mineralogy and geochronology, combining lab work (experimental and analytical) with field studies to explore geochemical processes during fluid-rock interactions.
During my PhD at GFZ Potsdam, I conducted high-pressure experiments to study the boron isotope fractionation between tourmaline and aqueous fluids, applying this to reconstruct the fluid history during Alpine metamorphism in the Pfitscher Joch region.
From 2019 to 2024, I led the LA-ICP-MS lab at TU Berlin, developing techniques for µm-scale trace element mapping, δ34S analysis in sulfides, and in situ Rb/Sr dating of mica and K-Fsp. I used these methods to investigate processes like microbe-driven trace element scavenging, radium incorporation in baryte, arsenic partitioning between pyrite and fluid, and Rb-Sr isotope redistribution in metamorphic mica.
Currently, I am leading the DFG-funded project "Completing the Detrital Record of Clastic Sediments by In Situ Rb/Sr Dating of Mica" and am part of FIERCE, applying reaction cell mass spectrometry to in situ Rb/Sr, Lu/Hf, and Re/Os geochronometers.
Professional Life
2025 –
PostDoc (DFG Temporary Position for Principle Investigators)
Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Institute of Geology and Paleoenvironmental Research
2024 – 2025
Research Assistant, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Institute of Geology and Paleoenvironmental
2024 –
Member of FIERCE
2019 – 2024
Manager of the LA-ICP-MS Lab (MAGMA Lab) at the Technische Universität Berlin
2018 – 2019
Parental Leave
2017 – 2018
PostDoc Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Applied Geochemistry
Studies
2014 – 2017
Doctoral Degree, Technische Universität Berlin. The effect of tetrahedral Boron on the Boron isotope fractionation between tourmaline and fluid – Improving tourmaline as a petrogenetic indicator
2012 – 2014
Geoscience (M.Sc.) University of Potsdam. Master Thesis: Corrosion of Silicate Glasses: Processes and Reactions at the Glass-Water Interface
2010 – 2012
Earth science ETH Zürich
2007 – 2010
Geoscience (B.Sc.) University of Kiel. Bachelor Thesis: Subduktion Ozeanischer Lithosphäre: Der Bantimala Komplex von Sulawesi (in German).
Awards
Paul-Ramdohr Prize 2017 of the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (DMG)
