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Profile
| Academic position | Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher |
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| Research fields | Geology,Mineralogy, Crystallography |
| Keywords | Impact 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
| Country | South Africa |
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| City | Bellville |
| Institution | University of the Western Cape |
| Institute | Department of Earth Sciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Liane G. Benning | Sektion 3.5 Grenzflächen-Geochemie, GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung, Potsdam |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/08/2021 |
Programme(s)
| 2021 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2023 | Elizaveta 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 |
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| 2022 | Monika 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 |
| 2021 | ElizavetaKovaleva, 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 |