Research Interests:
1. Evolution of early Earth's environments2. Biogeochemistry
3. (Marine) chemical sediments
4. Trace element and isotope geochemistry
5. High field strength and rare earth element geochemistry
6. Geochronology
7. Weathering and erosion processesShort CV:
2021- today: Post-doctoral researcher within the FWF project "The evolution of the earliest marine habitats on Earth" (P 34238; stand-alone project)2019 - 2021: Senior research fellow at the Department of Geology at the University of Vienna, Austria.2017 – 2019: Post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Geodynamics and Sedimentology at the University of Vienna, Austria funded by an individual Marie-Curie fellowship of the European Union Horizon 2020 programme.
Project ELEMIN: How the earliest life on Earth became mineralised.2016 - 2017: Guest scientist at the Department of Geodynamics and Sedimentology at the University of Vienna, Austria.2011 – 2016: PhD student and research associate at the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences at the Jacobs University Bremen, Germany.
Thesis topic: “The evolution of Precambrian environments and their impact on the trace element and Hf-Nd isotopic composition of ancient seawater”.2004 – 2011: Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Geology/Paleontology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany.
Thesis topic: “Seawater-derived REY, trace element and HFSE systematics of Archean Banded Iron Formations (BIFs)”.Born 1985 in Bergisch Gladbach, GermanyList of publications: https://publons.com/researcher/2232183/sebastian-viehmann
Stromatolites as unique archives to reconstruct ancient microbial habitats: insights from stable and radiogenic isotopes
Sebastian Viehmann (Keynote speaker)
Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science
Banded Iron Formations – ancient proxies for the 182W composition of the upper mantle and crust
Andrea Mundl-Petermeier (Vortragende*r), Sebastian Viehmann (Autor*in), Jonas Tusch (Autor*in), Michael Bau (Autor*in) & Carsten Münker (Autor*in)
Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science
Ancient mantle heterogeneties recorded in igneous and sedimentary rocks
Vinciane Debaille (Keynote speaker), Ashley Wainwright (Autor*in), J. Elis Hoffmann (Autor*in), Sebastian Viehmann (Autor*in) & Michael Bau (Autor*in)
Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science
Neodymium isotopes in stromatolites: new perspectives on direct dating and reconstructing the source of elements in microbial habitats through deep time.
Sebastian Viehmann (Vortragende*r)
Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science
Stromatolites as archives for novel isotope proxies to reconstruct microbial habitats through deep time.
Simon V. Hohl (Vortragende*r) & Sebastian Viehmann (Autor*in)
Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science
Trace metals and Nd isotopes in 3.35 Ga old stromatolites of the Strelley Pool Formation (Australia) unravel the genesis of carbonates and cherts.
Sebastian Viehmann (Vortragende*r), Joachim Reitner (Autor*in), Nathalie Tepe (Autor*in), Simon V. Hohl (Autor*in), Martin Van Kranendonk (Autor*in), Thilo Hofmann (Autor*in), Christian Koeberl (Autor*in) & Patrick Meister (Autor*in)
Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science
Die Entwicklung der ersten marinen Habitate auf der Erde
1/08/21 → 31/07/24
Projekt: Forschungsförderung
ELEMIN: How the Earliest Life on Earth became Mineralized
Meister, P. & Viehmann, S.
1/04/17 → 31/03/19
Projekt: Forschungsförderung
Department für Lithosphärenforschung
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