Dorrit E. Jacob is a German-born Australian
geochemist
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. She is the first woman to serve as Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences at the
Australian National University
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(ANU) where she is a full professor.
Jacob completed her undergraduate studies in mineralogy and geology at the
University of Mainz, Germany. She moved to the
Georg-August University in
University of Göttingen
The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...
from which she received a
Dr. rer. nat. ''Doctor rerum naturalium'' ( for, , Latin, doctor of natural sciences, lit. 'doctor of the things of nature'), abbreviated Dr. rer. nat., is a doctoral academic degree awarded by universities in some European countries (e.g. Germany, Austria and C ...
, while her PhD thesis work was performed at the
Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry.
Jacob was awarded the Heisenberg Chair in Biomineralisation at the University of Mainz in 2012.
In 2013 Jacob moved to Australia where she took up an
ARC future fellowship
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at
Macquarie University
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to study the formation of bivalve shells and pearls and how they are used to reconstruct past records of climate change.
Her areas of research include biomineralisation, and diamond formation. As of 2020 she leads the Biominerals as Environment Archives project at the ANU.
In May 2021 Jacob was elected a Fellow of the
Australian Academy of Science.
As of 2020 she is a full professor at the Australian National University, having joined ANU at the end of 2020.
References
External links
* ANU profile o
Professor Dorrit Jacob*
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni
University of Göttingen alumni
Macquarie University faculty
Australian National University faculty
Geochemists