Anthony Lanati

Current affiliations

• Professur für Petrologie (Prof. Klemme)
  Corrensstr. 24, Raum: 124, 48149 Münster
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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Focus

• An overview that will blow your damn mind:
  Have you ever wondered what the coolest and most interesting rock class on the Earth is? Fear not, it is the potassic and highly-alkaline mafic and ultramafic rocks. You're welcome. What makes them so flipping awesome? Great question, I am glad you asked! Strap in, this is gonna be fun! The melts that eventually crystallise to form these rock upon exhumation are among the most important, enigmatic, and potentially essential magmas for the transport of life essential elements like hydrogen, carbon, phosphorous, nitrogen, and sulfur. These melts also capture some of the first melting processes, and allow us a direct insight in to how nutrients and metals are sequentially concentrated and exchanged between the Earth's mantle, crust, and atmosphere. Bloody hell! That's sick! How do you do that? I use a range of analytical geochemical and experimental techniques to determine the mineralogy and chemistry of rocks collected in the field to piece together their genesis. Sometimes I even make my own rocks in the large hydraulic presses that can cook a rock up to 1800°C, which is a bit like the mad scientist equivalent of baking a cake by building the oven first out of lego. I choose to work with some of the most complex rocks and melts, including some we only think might exist, because the formation of these geological materials encapsulate the true diversity of processes that have made our planet a habitable and cosy home for species like us! Aside from this I have a general interest in high-pressure semi-conductor research, mineral physics, FAIR data and open science principles, and occassionally mummified cats. Want to know more? Check out my publications below, or shoot me an email. Stay funky! Ant

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