Professor Mark Rehkämper

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Professor of Isotope Geochemistry

Contact

Location

450Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

Summary

My research applies novel isotopic techniques to advance understanding in earth, planetary, environmental and life sciences.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Stable isotope geochemistry and biogeochemistry of trace metals
Cosmochemistry and solid earth geochemistry
Marine geochemistry and paleoceanography
Novel applications of trace metal stable isotope systems for research in biomedicine, environmental geochemistry and agricultural sciences
Isotopic tracing of engineered nanomaterials
Development of new techniques of isotopic analysis

Recent Measures of Esteem

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Member of the Joint Publications Committee of the Meteoritical Society and the Geochemical Society to oversee Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Associate Editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Editorial board member for Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (JAAS)

Education and Professional Experience

Academic staff at Imperial College London since 2005
Research Scientist, ETH Zurich, 2000-2005
Research Scientist, University of Münster, 1998-1999
Research Fellow, University of Michigan, 1995-1997
PhD in Geochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry & University of Mainz, 1991-1995
Diplom in Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, 1990
Vordiplom in Chemistry, University of Marburg, 1987

Publications

Journals

Little SH, Wilson DJ, Rehkämper M, et al.Little SH, Wilson DJ, Rehkämper M, Adkins JF, Robinson LF, van de Flierdt T close, 2021, Cold-water corals as archives of seawater Zn and Cu isotopes, Chemical Geology, Vol:578, ISSN:0009-2541, Pages:1-20

Sullivan KV, Moore RET, Capper MS, et al.Sullivan KV, Moore RET, Capper MS, Schilling K, Goddard K, Ion C, Layton-Matthews D, Leybourne MI, Coles B, Kreissig K, Coombes RC, Larner F, Rehkamper M close, 2021, Zinc stable isotope analysis reveals Zn dyshomeostasis in benign tumours, breast cancer, and adjacent histologically normal tissue, Matallomics, Vol:13, ISSN:1756-591X, Pages:1-12

Brett EKA, Prytulak J, Rehkämper M, et al.Brett EKA, Prytulak J, Rehkämper M, Hammond SJ, Chauvel C, Stracke A, Willbold M close, 2021, Thallium elemental and isotopic systematics in ocean island lavas, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol:301, ISSN:0016-7037, Pages:187-210

Schilling K, Moore RET, Sullivan KV, et al.Schilling K, Moore RET, Sullivan KV, Capper M, Rehkamper M, Goddard K, Ion C, Coombes RC, Vesty-Edwards L, Lamb AD, Halliday AN, Larner F close, 2021, Zinc stable isotopes in urine as diagnostic for cancer of secretory organs, Metallomics: Integrated Biometal Science, Vol:13, ISSN:1756-5901, Pages:1-10

Capper MS, Rehkämper M, Packman H, 2020, Rhenium-based complexes and in vivo testing: A brief history, Chembiochem, Vol:21, ISSN:1439-4227, Pages:2111-2115

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