Dr. Elizaveta Kovaleva

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsGeology,Mineralogy, Crystallography
KeywordsImpact cratering, Phosphates, Zircon, Shock deformation, Planetary science
Honours and awards

2021: National Research Foundation (South Africa) rating category Y2

2020: DSI-NRF CIMERA funding to supervise the MSc student 2020-2021

2020: Invited Lecturer to the University of Lille, France

2019: Directorate for Research Development, University of the Free State, interdisciplinary project GRAVITAS

2018: Meteoritical Society Travel award for 81st MetSoc

2018: National Research Foundation (NRF) “Knowledge Interchange and Collaboration – Local Travel”

2018: Travel award from Minerals, MDPI for EGU 2018

2017: National Research Foundation (NRF) "Freestanding Postdoctoral Fellowship"

2016: Geohost travel grant for 35th IGC

2016: Igneous Metamorphic Studies Group (IMSG) award for the best talk

2015: National Research Foundation (NRF) “Knowledge Interchange and Collaboration – Africa interaction”

Current contact address

CountrySouth Africa
CityBellville
InstitutionUniversity of the Western Cape
InstituteDepartment of Earth Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Liane G. BenningSektion 3.5 Grenzflächen-Geochemie, GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung, Potsdam
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2021

Programme(s)

2021Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2023Elizaveta Kovaleva, Hassan Helmy, Said Belkacim, Anja Schreiber, Franziska D.H. Wilke, Richard Wirth: Libyan Desert Glass: New evidence for an extremely high-pressure-temperature impact event from nanostructural study. In: American Mineralogist, 108, 2023, 1906–1923
2022Monika A. Kusiak, Elizaveta Kovaleva, Dennis Vanderliek, Harry Becker, Franziska Wilke, Anja Schreiber, Richard Wirth: Nano‑ and micro‑structures in lunar zircon from Apollo 15 and 16 impactites: implications for age interpretations. In: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 177, 2022, 20
2021ElizavetaKovaleva, Monika A. Kusiak, Gavin G. Kenny, Martin J. Whitehouse, Gerlinde Habler, Anja Schreiber, Richard Wirth: Nano-scale investigation of granular neoblastic zircon, Vredefort impact structure, South Africa: Evidence for complete shock melting. In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 565, 2021, 15