Florian (Max) Schwandner Senior Research Fellow Volcanology Group Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) Nanyang Technological University Singapore I joined the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS, Nanyang Technological University) in Fall 2009. My research activities at EOS focus on: * volcano monitoring (gases) in South-East Asia (Philippines, Indonesia); * feasibility assessment of satellite-borne monitoring of volcanic CO2 plumes; * interdisciplinary environmental databases, and integrated natural hazard assessment; * environmental monitoring, chemical sensor technology and organic mass spectrometry; chemical marker analysis. An analytical geochemist by training, I currently work on applied geochemical monitoring techniques for active volcanic emissions, using in-situ sampling as well as ground-based and satellite-borne real-time sensing techniques. I maintain active research collaborations with domestic and international research groups in government, academia, industry and supranational agencies. I complement my work with an involvement in outreach activities, volunteer work for a non-profit charitable organisation, and mentoring of underrepresented students. Biographical Overview I studied Geology / Earth Sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) at an undergraduate and graduate level, from 1991-1997. During that period I won a competitive scholarship to study as a Graduate Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington from 1995-1996, where I performed research on trace element partitioning under the supervision of M.S. Ghiorso and B.K. Nelson. After my return to Berlin, I graduated with a Diplom degree in 1997 (M.Sc. equivalent) under the supervision of V. Jacobshagen and V.J. Dietrich. Subsequently I joined the Geochemistry Group of Terry Seward at ETH Zürich / IMP, (Switzerland) for my doctoral work on halocarbon emissions from volcanoes, together with Volker Dietrich. This included work on live emissions by volcanoes and expanded the normally 10 to 15 quantitatively measured gas species to well over 100 by including organic compounds. Part of this work was performed at Hall Analytical Ltd., an environmental organic mass spectrometry instrument development and analytical company in Manchester (UK). I graduated with a Dr. sci. nat degree (Ph.D.) from ETH Zürich in Geochemistry and Volcanology in 2002. Subsequently I held joint postdoctoral appointments at ETH Zürich between the European Union's GEOWARN project, the ETH Institute of Cartography (Natural Hazards group) and the Geochemistry group of Terry Seward. This was followed by a Postdoctoral Research Associate appointment in the research group of Everett Shock and the Keck Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory at the Department of Geological Sciences (now SESE) at Arizona State University from 2004-2006, where I worked on trace gas emission mapping and built a new analytical mass spectrometry laboratory. I joined the Atmospheric Chemistry Group of J.L. Collett at Colorado State University in early 2006, changing course away from volcano research and toward quantifying emissions, transport, gas-aerosol transformation, and deposition of atmospheric nitrogen species, as well as long-term multiparametric environmental monitoring strategies and methods, gaining technical experience in networked, autonomous and telemetered sensing and sampling systems, in collaboration with Air Resource Specialists Inc., The U.S. National Park Service, and Shell Exploration and Production Company. I am currently a Senior Research Fellow with the Volcanology Group of Chris Newhall at the new Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS, Nanyang Technological University) since Fall 2009. My personal interests include travel, cooking, horses, and cultural history. Academic History
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