The University of British Columbia

I am a geologist with research interest in the metallogeny of active continental margins. I graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in 1997 where I carried out my diploma thesis research on the tectonic evolution of the alpine suture zone in the Val Malenco, Northern Italy.  After working for Barrick Chile Ltda. I initiated my PhD research at Queen’s University in 1998. My thesis topic was the relationship of the Miocene geomorphologic evolution and magmatism to the high-sulfidation epithermal deposits in the El Indio-Pascua belt, situated at the Chile-Argentina border.  In early 2002 until early 2004 I was a post doctoral researcher at the Mineral Deposit Research Unit (MDRU), University of British Columbia working on the Cuale VMS deposit west-Central Mexico and the Central Peruvian polymetallic belt. Between 2004 and 2007 I held an assistant professorship at Universidad Católica del Norte in Antofagasta, Chile. I assumed my current position in late 2007.