MINSPEC - Katja Ruschel

Chair of Mineral Spectroscopy
(Marie Curie Chair of Excellence)

Dipl.-Min. Katja Ruschel

Room number: 2C381
Phone number: (+431) 4277 53276
katja.ruschel[at]univie.ac.at

Deutsch

PhD

Born:	18.11.1977 in Boppard, Germany
Education:
1997-2000:	Study of geology at the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany; six months at the University of Oviedo, Spain (Erasmus grant)
2001-2005:	Study of mineralogy at the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
2005:	Diploma (Mineralogy, with a diploma scholarship awarded by the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz). Diploma thesis: “Mineralogical investigations of property changes in tanzanite” (in German; Prof. W. Hofmeister, thesis supervisor).

Publications & Abstracts:

Ruschel, K., Nasdala, L., Rhede, D., Wirth, R., Lengauer, C.L. & Libowitzky, E. (2009): Effect of fluid-driven chemical alteration on radiation-damaged fergusonite (Abstract). Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft 155, MinPet 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 2009, p. 138.

Nasdala, L., Ruschel, K., Hanchar, J.M., Kramar, S., Petautschnig, C., Preuschl, F., Pristacz, H. & Talla, D. (2009): Photoluminescence emission of Rare Earth Elements in natural monazite and synthetic orthophosphates (Abstract). Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft 155, MinPet 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 2009, p. 112.

Nasdala, L., Grötzschel, R., Probst, S., Ruschel, K. & Hanchar, J.M. (2009): Irradiation damage in monazite: A Raman study of Au-irradiated FIB foils. MinPet2009
& 4^th Mineral Sciences in the Carpathians Joint Conference, Budapest, Hungary,
September 2009, Programme, p. 21.

Gieré, R., Williams, C.T., Wirth R. & Ruschel, K. (2009): Metamict Fergusonite-(Y) in a spessartine-bearing granitic pegmatite from Adamello, Italy. Chemical Geology, 261, 333-345.

Gieré, R., Williams, C.T., Wirth, R. & Ruschel, K. (2008): Metamict fergusonite-(Y) in a spessartine-bearing granitic pegmatite from Adamello, Italy. 86^th Annual Meeting of the German Mineralogical Society, Berlin, Germany, September, 2008. Abstract no. 436.

Nasdala, L., Ruschel, K., Hanchar, J.M., Götze, J., Krickl, R., Seydoux-Guillaume, A.-M. & Panczer, G. (2008): Effects of structural radiation damage on cathode- and photoluminescence emissions of minerals. 2^nd Central-European Mineralogical Conference (CEMC), Szklarska Poręba, Poland, September, 2008. Mineralogia, Special Papers, 32, p. 118.>

Nasdala, L., Krickl, R., Ruschel, K. & Vaczi, T. (2008): Spectroscopic studies of radiation damage in minerals. 19^th Slovak-Czech Spectroscopic Conference, Casta-Papiernicka, Slovakia. Book of Abstracts, p. 25.

Ruschel, K., Hanchar, J.M., Nasdala, L., Kronz, A., Libowitzky, E. & Wildner, M. (2008): Spectroscopic studies of doped synthetic monazite. 12^th Intl. Conference on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry (EMPG-12), Innsbruck, Austria, September 2008, p. 83.

Nasdala, L., Miletich, R., Ruschel, K. & Váczi, T. (2008): Raman study of radiation-damaged zircon under hydrostatic compression. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 35, 597-602.

Ruschel, K., Nasdala, L. & Lengauer, C.L. (2008) Annealing behaviour of natural monazite compared to other radiation-damaged minerals. GeoRaman '08 Conference, Ghent, Belgium, June, 2008. Book of Abstracts, p. 114.

Ruschel, K., Nasdala, L., Miletich, R., Hanchar, J.M., Wanthanachaisaeng, B. & Häger, T. (2007): Spectral changes of zircon at elevated pressure (Abstract). Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft 153, MinPet 2007, Meran, Italy, September 2007, p. 98.

Ruschel, K., Nasdala, L., Finger, F., Kinny, P. & Seydoux-Guillaume, A.M. (2007): Annealing radiation damage in monazite: changes in photoluminescence and raman spectra. (Abstract). Programme with Abstracts, 6^th European Conference on Mineralogy and Spectroscopy, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2007, p. 70.

Ruschel, K., Nasdala, L., Gaft, M., Schnier, C. & Schlüter, J. (2007): Photoluminescence recovery upon annealing of fergusonite (Abstract). Abstract Volume, Goldschmidt Conference 2007, Cologne, Germany, August 2007, p. A861.

Links:

Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie

Universität Wien

Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung

FP6 program: Marie Curie actions NEW: FP7 program