Petrologie und Geochemie
Wintersemester
Sommersemester
Dr. Ralf Dohmen
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Laborleiter für gepulste Laserabscheidung

Dr. Ralf Dohmen
Photo by Raúl Fonseca
Dr. Ralf Dohmen (Dr. rer. Nat. 1999, Köln, Germany)
E-Mail - ralf.dohmen@rub.de
Tel.: +49 234 32-24394
Raum: IA 4/113
Research Interests
Experimental and theoretical petrology. My research interest covers various different topics within theoretical and experimental petrology where diffusion or diffusion-controlled processes are involved. It comprises theoretical modeling as well as experiments to understand and quantify the reaction kinetics of multi-phase systems or simply to measure diffusion coefficients for various applications, e.g., mineral rheology or diffusion chronometry.
Some of my current projects are:
- Pulsed Laser Deposition of silicate thin films and its application to volume and grain boundary diffusion experiments
- Experimental investigation and modeling of diffusive fractionation of isotopes and elements
- Thermodynamic modeling of element partitioning between plagioclase and melt
- Experimental and theoretical studies of diffusion and partitioning behavior of Li in olivine
- Diffusion modeling of chemical zoning in primitive meteorites to extract cooling rates and identify oxidation events in the solar nebula
- Modeling of chemical zoning in phenocrysts to determine time scales of magma recharging events
Current scientific collaborations:
International
- Katharina Marquardt, Imperial College London, Department of Materials, London, UK
- Paul Baral, Michaël Coulombier, Hosni Idrissi, Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (IMMC), Louvain‐la‐Neuve, Belgium
- Patrick Cordier, Univ. Lille, Unité Matériaux et Transformations, France
- Corentin Le Guillou, Unité Matériaux et Transformations, Université de Lille, France
Publication List
Teaching
Wintersemester
- 176305 Polarisationsmikroskopie I
BSc-Level (3. Semester): Dohmen - 176504 Polarisationsmikroskopie II
BSc-Level (5. Semester): Dohmen
Sommersemester
- 176107 Sicherheit in Gelände und Labor
Chakraborty, Sumit; Fockenberg, Thomas; Schuth, Stephan; Dohmen, Ralf; Duda, Mandy
Education
- 1999 – Dr. rer. nat. Degree, University of Cologne
Dissertation: Gas phase as a mediator for solid-solid reactions: Knudsen cell mass spectrometry experiments and a thermodynamic kinetic modelling - 1996 – Physics Diploma, University of Cologne
Thesis: Development of a computer control of a Knudsen cell mass spectrometer to investigate element fractionations in the Solar Nebula
Positions held
- 04/2010 - present: Research Associate
Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum - 02/2009 - 03/2010: Research Associate
Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom - 12/1999 - 01/2009: Research Associate
Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum - 02/1996 - 10/1999: Research Assistant
Institute for Mineralogy and Geochemistry, University to Cologne
Academic honours
- 1999
Best Paper published in 1998 in American Mineralogist award, Mineralogical Society of America