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Joël Brugger is a researcher affiliated with Monash University in Australia, focusing primarily on fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. Their academic work spans a range of scientific disciplines, encompassing both fundamental and applied aspects of geosciences and engineering.

The main fields of study associated with Joël Brugger include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Engineering

The subfields of their expertise cover:

  • Geophysics
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence

Joël Brugger's research addresses several core topics, such as:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Metal Extraction and Bioleaching
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Extraction and Separation Processes

Their recent publications illustrate a wide range of interests within those fields:

  • Carbonate complexation enhances hydrothermal transport of rare earth elements in alkaline fluids, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Love is in the Earth: A review of tellurium (bio)geochemistry in surface environments, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Large S isotope and trace element fractionations in pyrite of uranium roll front systems result from internally-driven biogeochemical cycle, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Germanium speciation in experimental and natural sphalerite: Implications for critical metal enrichment in hydrothermal Zn-Pb ores, 2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Nutrient Supply to Planetary Biospheres from Anoxic Weathering of Mafic Oceanic Crust, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

The venues in which Joël Brugger frequently publishes include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Chemical Geology
  • Mineralogical Magazine

They have collaborated regularly with several authors, with whom they have co-authored multiple papers. These frequent coauthors are:

  • Barbara Etschmann
  • Rahul Ram
  • Yuan Mei
  • Qiushi Guan
  • Weihua Liu

Best Publications

  • Hydrothermal transport, deposition, and fractionation of the REE: experimental data and thermodynamic calculations

    A. Migdisov;A. E. Williams-Jones;Joel Brugger;F. A. Caporuscio

  • Mechanisms of gold biomineralization in the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans

    Frank Reith;Barbara E Etschmann;Cornelia Grosse;Hugo Moors

  • Invisible gold in arsenian pyrite and arsenopyrite from a multistage Archaean gold deposit: Sunrise Dam, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia

    Y Sung;Y Sung;Joel Brugger;Joel Brugger;Cristiana Ciobanu;Cristiana Ciobanu;Allan Pring;Allan Pring

  • A review of the coordination chemistry of hydrothermal systems, or do coordination changes make ore deposits?

    Joël Brugger;Weihua Liu;Barbara Etschmann;Yuan Mei;Yuan Mei

  • Mechanism and kinetics of pseudomorphic mineral replacement reactions: A case study of the replacement of pentlandite by violarite

    Fang Xia;Joël Brugger;Joël Brugger;Guorong Chen;Yung Ngothai

  • Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

    Andrew Bissett;Anna Fitzgerald;Thys Meintjes;Pauline M. Mele

  • A spectrophotometric study of aqueous Au(III) halide–hydroxide complexes at 25–80 °C

    Alistair Usher;Alistair Usher;Derry McPhail;Derry McPhail;Joel Brugger;Joel Brugger;Joel Brugger

  • Inhomogeneous distribution of REE in scheelite and dynamics of Archaean hydrothermal systems (Mt. Charlotte and Drysdale gold deposits, Western Australia)

    Joël Brugger;Yann Lahaye;Sylvie Costa;David Lambert

  • Modeling of gold scavenging by bismuth melts coexisting with hydrothermal fluids

    Blake Tooth;Joel Brugger;Joel Brugger;Cristiana Liana Ciobanu;Cristiana Liana Ciobanu;Weihua Liu

  • Bi-melt formation and gold scavenging from hydrothermal fluids: An experimental study

    Blake Tooth;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Leonard Green;Brian O’Neill

  • Oxidation state of europium in scheelite: Tracking fluid–rock interaction in gold deposits

    Joel Brugger;Barbara E Etschmann;Barbara E Etschmann;Mark Ian Pownceby;Weihua Liu

  • Textural and compositional complexities resulting from coupled dissolution–reprecipitation reactions in geomaterials

    Alexander Altree-Williams;Allan Pring;Yung Ngothai;Joël Brugger

  • Speciation and thermodynamic properties for cobalt chloride complexes in hydrothermal fluids at 35-440 degrees C and 600 bar: An in-situ XAS study

    Weihua Liu;Stacey J. Borg;Stacey J. Borg;Denis Testemale;Barbara Etschmann;Barbara Etschmann

  • Nanoparticle factories: Biofilms hold the key to gold dispersion and nugget formation

    Frank Reith;Frank Reith;Lintern Fairbrother;Lintern Fairbrother;Gert Nolze;Oliver Wilhelmi

  • Speciation of aqueous tellurium(IV) in hydrothermal solutions and vapors, and the role of oxidized tellurium species in Te transport and gold deposition

    Pascal V. Grundler;Joël Brugger;Barbara E. Etschmann;Lothar Helm

  • An XAS study of the structure and thermodynamics of Cu(I) chloride complexes in brines up to high temperature (400 °C, 600 bar)

    J. Brugger;J. Brugger;Barbara Etschmann;Barbara Etschmann;W. Liu;W. Liu;Denis Testemale

  • Determination of the oxidation state of Cu in substituted Cu-In-Fe-bearing sphalerite via μ-XANES spectroscopy

    Nigel J. Cook;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Joël Brugger;Joël Brugger;Barbara Etschmann

  • Contrasting regimes of Cu, Zn and Pb transport in ore-forming hydrothermal fluids

    Richen Zhong;Richen Zhong;Joël Brugger;Joël Brugger;Yanjing Chen;Wenbo Li

  • UV–Vis spectrophotometric and XAFS studies of ferric chloride complexes in hyper-saline LiCl solutions at 25–90 °C

    Weihua Liu;Weihua Liu;Barbara Etschmann;Joël Brugger;Joël Brugger;Leone Spiccia

  • 'Invisible gold' in bismuth chalcogenides

    Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Nigel J. Cook;Allan Pring;Allan Pring;Joël Brugger;Joël Brugger

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan Pring
Allan Pring Flinders University
Barbara Etschmann
Barbara Etschmann Monash University
Frank Reith
Frank Reith University of Adelaide
Cristiana L. Ciobanu
Cristiana L. Ciobanu University of Adelaide
Jean-Louis Hazemann
Jean-Louis Hazemann Grenoble Alpes University
Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan University of Waikato
Thomas Armbruster
Thomas Armbruster University of Bern
Nigel J. Cook
Nigel J. Cook University of Adelaide
Gordon Southam
Gordon Southam University of Queensland
Sergey V. Krivovichev
Sergey V. Krivovichev Russian Academy of Sciences

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