Date: 13.03.2025, 14:00-17:00

Venue: UZA II, Lecture Hall 2, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, Geozentrum, floor 1 (near exit A)

The CFE comprises large-scale laboratories for electron microscopy, electron beam microanalysis and ion beam applications for the structural and mineral chemical analysis of geomaterials.

Programme:

• 14:00 Welcome
  • Vice-Rector Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Hautsch
  • Vice-Dean Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Geogr. Dr. Stephan Glatzel
    
    
• 14:10 Presentation of the Core Facility
  • Core Facility Electron Beam Microanalysis
    Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Rainer Abart
  • SEM lab - The new workhorse
    Dr. Christian Baal
  • EPMA lab - The element expert
    Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Rainer Abart
  • FIB-FESEM lab - The senior multitalent
    Mag. Dr. Gerlinde Habler
    
    
• 15:00 Coffee Break
  
  
• 15:30 Research at the Core Facility
  • What Fossils under the Electron Microscope can tell
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Petra Heinz
    ao. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Geol. Dr. Christa Hofmann
    Isabella Leonhard, B.Sc. M.Sc.
  • Mineral chemistry – window to Deep Earth
    Rene Asenbaum, B.Sc. M.Sc.
    Dr. Federico Casetta
  • Reading rocks: microstructures and crystal orientations
    Dr. Thomas Griffiths, MSc
  • Microstructures in rocks: from outcrop to microscale and back
    Dr. Michel Bestmann
    Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Bernhard Grasemann
    
    
• 16:50 How to access the facilities of CFE
  Univ.-Prof. Dr. Petra Heinz
  
  
• 17:00 Apero, Guided tours of the CFE labs