Dr Kurt Knesel, PhD    Senior Lecturer

	Biography

Dr Kurt Knesel received his PhD from UCLA in 1998.

Dr Knesel's research interests are in the fields of:

• Igneous and experimental petrology
  
• Isotope geochemistry and volcanology
  
• Chemical dynamics of magmatic
  
• Orogenic and volcanic processes
  
• Magmatic differentiation and elemental fluxes at convergent margins
  
• Life-cycles of active volcanoes
  
• Volcanic hazards, eruption mechanisms & climatic change

• Petrologic and geochemical studies of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone (with Dr. M. Dungan, University of Geneva)
  
  
• Geochemical and geochronologic studies of granites of the High Himalaya (with Dr. C. Stern, University of Colorado)
  
  
• Geochemical and geochronologic studies of Tertiary volcanism in Eastern Australia (with Dr. P. Vasconcelos, University of Queensland)
  
  
• Investigating magma evolution at explosive volcanoes using crystal isotope stratigraphy Experimental studies of radiogentic isotope systematics during melting in the crust (with Dr. S. Turner, University of Bristol & Dr. J. Davidson University of Durham)
  
  
• Experimental investigation of the rheology and mobility of granitic magma

	Keywords
	Science and Technology: Geochemistry, Science and Technology: Petrology, Science and Technology: Climate Change, Science and Technology: Volcanology