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Geo- and Cosmochemistry

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Dr. Jan Leitner - e-Mail Dipl.-Phys. Institut für Geowissenschaften Im Neuenheimer Feld 234-236 D-69120 Heidelberg

 

 

• Education and Employment

  2005	Physics diploma (Institute for Planetology, University of Münster, Germany), Thesis title: "TOF-SIMS-Analyse von Matrix des Meteoriten Renazzo"
  2005-2007	Research Associate, Institute for Planetology, University of Münster, Germany
  2008	Doctorate (Institute for Planetology, University of Münster, Germany), Thesis title: "TOF-SIMS analysis of crater residues from particles of comet 81P/Wild 2"
  2008-2009	Research Scholarship holder of the Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
  2010-2022	Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Particle Chemistry Department, Mainz, Germany
  2022-	Research Associate at the Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University, Germany



• Research interests and current projects
  • Micro- and nanoanalytical methods: Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) and electron beam techniques)
    • NanoSIMS (Nanoscale Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry): Isotope and trace element measurements of extraterrestrial materials
    • Trace element analysis with sub-micrometer resolution of foraminifera tests
  • Meteorites, Comets, and related space missions
  • Interplanetary and interstellar dust, presolar grains; extraterrestrial organics
  • Formation and early phase of the Solar System
  • Stellare evolution and nucleosynthesis


• Miscellaneous
  • Member of the Geochemical Society
  • Member of the Meteoritical Society


• Selected publications
  • Vollmer C., Kepaptsoglou D. M., Leitner J., Busemann H., Spring N., Ramasse Q., Hoppe P., and Nittler L. R. (2014) Fluid-induced organic synthesis in the solar nebula recorded in extraterrestrial dust from meteorites. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 111 (43), 15338–15343.
  • Leitner J., Vollmer C., Floss C., Zipfel J., and Hoppe P. (2016) Ancient Stardust in Fine-grained Chondrule Dust Rims from Carbonaceous Chondrites. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 434, 117–128.
  • Hoppe P., Leitner J., and Kodolányi J. (2017) The stardust abundance in the local interstellar cloud at the birth of the Solar System. Nat. Astron., 1, 617–620.
  • Leitner J., Hoppe P., Floss C., Hillion F., and Henkel T. (2018) Correlated Nanoscale Characterization of a Unique Complex Oxygen-rich Stardust Grain: Implications for Circumstellar Dust Formation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 221, 255–274.
  • Leitner J. and Hoppe P. (2019) A New Population of Dust from Stellar Explosions among Meteoritic Stardust. Nat. Astron., 3, 725–729.
  • Vollmer C., Leitner J., Kepaptsoglou D., Ramasse Q., King A. J., Schofield P. S., Bischoff A., and Hoppe P. (2020) A pristine 15N-depleted organic component detected within the carbonaceous chondrite Maribo. Sci. Rep., 10:20251.
  • Hoppe P., Leitner J., Kodolányi J., Borrmann S., and Jones A. P. (2022) Dust from Supernovae and their Progenitors in the Solar Nebula. Nat. Astron., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01737-5.