Teaching
Teaching Experience

2008	spring semester	Graduate Level * Technical coordinator for class project, ATS716 "Air Quality Characterization", assisting in student class project design, instructing in independent use of complex analytical instrumentation and data treatment, Colorado State University (USA).
2007	spring semester	* Assistant instructor and technical co-coordinator, ATS560 "Air pollution measurement", teaching class session on titration and pH, coordination/instruction of class project, Colorado State University (USA).
2003	field course	* Assistant instructor and technical co-coordinator, Volcanological field course "Santorini island, Greece", (Friedländer Foundation short course, together with T. Druitt, J. Keller, V. Dietrich and P. Ulmer), ETH Zürich (Switzerland).
2000-2002	year-round	* Initiator, designer and web master, on-line teaching project of ETH-IMP Laboratory Techniques for Rock Sample Preparation for Wet Chemical and Instrumental Analysis web pag, ETH Zürich (Switzerland).
1999-2002	semester	* Teaching assistant, "MinPet III" (part: Thermodynamics: Mineral Equilibria in Aqueous Systems), ETH Zürich (Switzerland).
2001	field course	* Teaching Assistant and technical coordinator (also co-writing the field guide), Volcanological field course "Canary Islands, Spain", ETH Zürich (Switzerland).
1998-2001	year-round	* Instructor, rock and mineral preparation techniques for chemical analysis (XRF, ICP-MS, ICP-OES), graduate students and researchers, ETH Zürich (Switzerland).
1999	field course	* Teaching Assistant and technical coordinator, Volcanological field course "Massif Central and Auvergne, France", ETH Zürich (Switzerland).
1999	semester	* Teaching assistant, "Petrologie I" (Thermodynamic Methods in Petrology), ETH Zürich (Switzerland).
1998	field course	* Teaching Assistant and technical co-coordinator (including co-writing the field guide), Volcanological field course "Aeolian Islands and Mt. Etna, Italy", ETH Zürich (Switzerland).

1998-2001	full year	Undergraduate Level * Instructor, rock and mineral preparation techniques for chemical analysis (XRF, ICP-MS, ICP-OES) for undergraduate students, ETH Zürich (Switzerland).
1998-2001	excursions	* Teaching Assistant and technical co-coordinator, Volcanological field courses (first year students) "Kaiserstuhl Carbonatites, Germany" and "Hegau Volcanoes, Germany", ETH Zürich (Switzerland).
1998-2000	semester	* Teaching assistant, "MinPet II" (Optical Mineralogy & Petrography), ETH Zürich (Switzerland).
1998	field course	* Contracted guest instructor, field course "Die Erde" (Introduction to Geological Sciences), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany).
1995,1997	field course	* Instructor and coordinator, field course "Die Erde" (Introduction to Geological Sciences), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany).
1996	field course	* Assistant instructor, Univ. of Washington (USA), Spring Break Field Trip: Mojave Desert (CA).
1996	excursion	* Initiator, coordinator & co-instructor, field trip to the Twin Sisters Olivine mine in Washington State (with Prof. E. Cheney), Univ. of Washington (USA).
1994-1995	full year	* Instructor and teaching assistant, "Die Erde" (Introduction to Geological Sciences), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany).

Teaching Excellence and Interests

Teaching Excellence	It is not customary in the German and Swiss University systems to issue teaching evaluations for teaching assistants. However, having been selected teaching assistant while still being a Diplom student at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1994 was an outstanding honor; this is due to the fact that in German Universities, generally only PhD students are given teaching assistantships. At most one teaching assistantship was granted to an exceptionally performing Diplom student each year in that department, and I was conferred this privilege several times from 1994 until my graduation in 1997. More information can be provided upon request.
Other Interests / Qualifications	* Geology 101 * Volcanology (any level, lab, field) * Geochemistry (any level; solids, melts, aqueous solutions, gases; inorganic and organic, isotopes) * Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology (any level) * Mineralogy & Crystallography (any level) * Natural Hazards (any level) * Environmental Geology (any level) * Economic Geology (introductory to advanced) * Introductory Atmospheric Chemistry (introductory, plus lab and field) * Geochemical Laboratory and Measurement Techniques (all levels, most techniques) * Global Geochemical Cycles * Geological Field Techniques (Field Camp)

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