{"id":45,"date":"2017-12-14T11:34:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T18:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/drg\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:05:22","slug":"thomas-stachel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/contact-us\/members\/thomas-stachel\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Stachel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ESB 1-14
\nUniversity of Alberta
\nEarth and Atmospheric Sciences
\nEdmonton, AB
\nT6G 2E3 Canada
\nPhone: ++1-780-492-0865
\nFax: ++1-780-492-2030
\ntstachel@ualberta.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

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Education and Career<\/h3>\n

1987: MSc at Department of Earth Sciences, University of Mainz (group of Georg Buechel)
\n1991: PhD at Department of Geology, University of Wuerzburg (group of Volker Lorenz)
\n1990-1994: Postdoctoral fellow at Wuerzburg University (group of Volker Lorenz)
\n1994-1996: Research fellow (Marie Curie Fellowship of the European Union) at the Department of Geology and Applied Geology (now School of Geographical and Earth Sciences), University of Glasgow (group of Jeff W. Harris)
\n1996-2001: Lecturer in the Department of Mineralogy, University of Frankfurt (group of Gerhard Brey)
\n2001-2004: Associate professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
\n2001-present: Canada Research Chair in Diamonds
\n2004: Promotion to full professor
\n2008-present: Director of the Canadian Centre for Isotopic Microanalysis (CCIM)<\/p>\n

Awards (post PhD)<\/h3>\n

1999: Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Award of the German Mineralogical Society (DMG)
\n2000: Award of the Hermann-Willkomm-Stiftung (German foundation for the advancement of science)
\n2021: Peacock Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC)
\n2026: Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA)<\/p>\n

Research<\/h3>\n

Diamond and inclusions in diamond
\nMantle petrology and geochemistry
\nPetrology and volcanology of lamproites and kimberlites<\/p>\n

Teaching<\/h3>\n

Optical Mineralogy (EAS 232)
\nAdvanced Petrology: Diamond Exploration (EAS 461\/561)
\nMantle Petrology (Grad Course, EAS 536)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESB 1-14 University of Alberta Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3 Canada Phone: ++1-780-492-0865 Fax: ++1-780-492-2030 tstachel@ualberta.ca Education and Career 1987: MSc at Department of Earth Sciences, University of Mainz (group of Georg Buechel) 1991: PhD at Department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/904"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}