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Prof Vadim Kamenetsky

PhD (Vernadsky Inst)

ARC Professorial Fellow

Contact Details
Telephone: +61 3 6226 7649
Fax: +61 3 6226 7662
Location: Hobart Campus, Maths-Physics Building , 149
Email: dima.kamenetsky@utas.edu.au

Career Summary

Dima Kamenetsky is an ARC Professorial Research Fellow in CODES. He received his BSc (Hons) from the Moscow State University in 1983, and PhD from the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (Russian Academy of Sciences) in 1991. In 2003 the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) awarded Dima the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award.


Research Interests

Dima has wide expertise in melt and fluid inclusion experimental and analytical studies, as well as in the interpretation of conventional petrological and geochemical data. Dima has become internationally recognised for his research and publications on petrology and geochemistry of mantle-derived, primitive magmas in different geodynamic settings, application of melt inclusion studies to altered rocks from ophiolites, ancient volcanic belts and volcanogenic sediments, and origin and evolution of metal-bearing fluid phases during crystallisation of primitive to felsic magmas.

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