PhD

**Job Description**
This Ph.D. project aims to quantify lithium partitioning in rock-forming minerals to support exploration efforts for this energy-critical metal, given its rapid demand growth from industrial applications, particularly in batteries. The Ph.D. candidate will explore lithium’s geochemical behavior in the Earth’s crust, focusing on understanding and quantifying controls on its mobilization, concentration, and trapping to form pegmatite ore bodies. The project involves utilizing high-pressure high-temperature experimental equipment and world-leading analytical facilities. It also involves compiling existing partitioning data, identifying key phases, conducting HP-HT crystallisation experiments, and calibrating empirical expressions for lithium partitioning, with the long-term goal of revolutionizing critical metal exploration in magmatic settings.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Motivated by the proposed research
• Take initiative to develop ideas
• Self-driven
• Work independently and within a team
• Good command of spoken and written English (essential)
• Theoretical background in thermodynamics, mineralogy, petrology and economic geology (favourable)
• Statistics and coding experience (favourable)
• Willingness to experiment with new data collection methods (favourable)
• Flair for written, graphical and oral communication (favourable)
• Creativity and curiosity (above all)

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Earth Sciences
• Inorganic Chemistry
• Material Sciences
• Chemistry
• Related discipline (MSc degree required by position start)

**Experience**
Experience Required:
• (MSc)
Other:
• Designing and conducting experiments (favourable)
• Processing geological samples (favourable)

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