Bogdana RaduResearcher

About me

I completed my PhD "Cratonic eclogite xenoliths - formation and evolution of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle" between University of Saint Etienne, France and University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2018. I have since completed a postdoc at the Swedish Natural History Museum with Prof Henrik Skogby investigating water as OH but also as H2 in nominally anhydrous minerals (NAMs), such as pyroxene and olivine. Since 2023 I have been a postdoc at Stockholm University where I am currently working with Prof Vicky Pease on igneous enclaves from the Yukon-Koyukuk Basin, Alaska.

My current research concerns whole rock geochemistry and geochronology performed by XRF and LA-ICP MS on glass beads, as well as U-Pb in zircons. I am handling the analyses and maintenance of the LA-ICP MS lab and do all sample preparation and data reduction.

My longlasting research interest is better understanding and contraining the internal water cycle linked to the recycling and birthing of oceanic crust. For this I perform Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) on oriented and unoriented NAMs crystals for water quantification, Mössbauer spectroscopy for the oxidation states, and hydrogen experiments for crystal rehydration and magmatic water estimates. My areas of investigation expands from phenocrysts in lavas; orogenic and mantle eclogites; to Martian and Lunar meteorites.