Keynotes

Dr. Barbara Kunz, Open University

Barbara Kunz is a geochemist managing the LA-ICP-MS lab at The Open University. Her background is in high-grade metamorphism and anatexis of crustal rocks. Her work includes the effects of prolonged high-temperature metamorphism on isotopic and element signatures in geochronometers as well as the influence of partial melting reaction on mobilising critical elements into granitic melts. She also champions the Technician Commitment at the OU to increase the visibility, recognitions and career development of research technical professionals.

Professor. Tim Elliott, University of Bristol

Tim Elliott has spent his career making various isotope measurements of mantle derived rocks, bits of other planetary bodes and the occasional biogenic carbonate. He learned his trade amidst the concrete cows on Milton Keynes and further indulged this habit in the somewhat more uplifting environments of Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam before retuning to the UK. Over the past 25 years in Bristol, he has been pleasantly surprised by the new vistas offered by multi-collector plasma mass-spectrometry and has dabbled with the capabilities offered by adding a collision cell to such instruments.