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Academic Education
09/2015 - 06/2019	Ph.D. in Mineralogy: "Mobility of carbonate-rich melts in the upper mantle: a combined experimental and molecular dynamics study of melt densities under pressure"
10/2012 - 04/2015	MSc Earth Sciences: "Micro-analytical investigations on actinide reference materials"
10/2009 - 10/2012	BSc Earth Sciences "Glass spherules from K/Pg-boundary (Beloc, Haiti): Geochemistry and Mineralogy"
Work Experience
09/2015 - 06/2019	Doctoral student at the Institute for Mineralogy
05/2018 - 10/2018	Visiting researcher at the "Laboratoire de physique theorique de la matière condensée", Université Paris 6, Sorbonne University, CNRS, Paris
01/2018 - 04/2018	Editorial assistant at "Geochmistry" journal, Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam
07/2015	Student assistant at the Institut für Planetologie
08/2010 - 07/2015	Student assistant at the Institute for Mineralogy
03/2014 - 07/2014	Traineeship at the Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe (JRC-ITU)

Density of hydrous carbonate melts under pressure, compressibility of volatiles and implications for carbonate melt mobility in the upper mantle Xenia Ritter, Carmen Sanchez-Valle, Nicolas Sator , Elsa Desmaele, Nicolas Guignot, Andrew King, Ilya Kupenko, Jasper Berndt, Bertrand Guillot (2020) In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 533 Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Carbonate melt mobility in the upper mantle Ritter X, Sanchez-Valle C, King A, Guignot N, Sator N, Guillot B, Laumonier M, Perrillat J-P, Kupenko I, Sifré D, Gaillard F, Krolow M (2019) In: Deep Carbon 2019, Washington D.C., . Type of Publication: Abstract in digital collection (conference)
Mobility of carbonate melts in the upper mantle Ritter X, Sanchez-Valle C (2019) In: Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, . Type of Publication: Abstract in digital collection (conference)
Rapid carbonate melt extraction from the subducting slab Ritter X, Sanchez-Valle C, Laumonier M, King A, Guignot N, Perrillat J-P, Gaillard F, Sifré D (2018) In: EMPG16 - Sixtheenth International Symposium on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, Clermont-Ferrand, . Type of Publication: Abstract in digital collection (conference)
Viscosity of silicate melts: the effect of volatiles (CO2, H2O) at HP and HT Sifré D, Mezouar M, Gaillard F, Morizet Y., Perrillat J-P, Champallier R, Ritter X, Moussallam Y. (2017) In: AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, . Type of Publication: Abstract in digital collection (conference)

‘Young scientist’ session’ award for the 14th workshop in Portorož, Slovenia Awarded by: European Microbeam Analysis Society (EMAS) Award given to: Ritter, X.; Moy, A.; Kaboli, S.; Cagna, C.; Buse, B.; Misch, D. Date of awarding: 01/01/2015 Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Travel grant for the conference ‘Microscopy & Microanalysis” 2014 at Hartford, CT, USA Awarded by: PELGRIMM FP7 (http://www.pelgrimm.eu/) Collaborative Project Award given to: Ritter, Xenia Announced at: 01/01/2014 Type of distinction: Scholarship
EMAS bursary for the 14th European Workshop in Portorož, Slovenia Awarded by: European Microbeam Analysis Society (EMAS) Award given to: Ritter, Xenia Announced at: 01/01/2015 Type of distinction: Scholarship
EMAS travel grant for the conference ‘Microscopy & Microanalysis” 2014 at Hartford, CT, USA Awarded by: European Microbeam Analysis Society (EMAS) Award given to: Ritter, Xenia Announced at: 01/01/2014 Type of distinction: Scholarship

Mobility of carbonate-rich melts in the upper mantle: a combined experimental and molecular dynamics study of melt densities under pressure
Candidate: Ritter, Xenia | Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Carmen Sanchez-Valle | Reviewers: Sanchez-Valle, Carmen; Wilke, Max; Klemme, Stephan; Sator, Nicolas
Period of time: 01/09/2015 - 06/06/2019
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster