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Switzerland
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
91
Citations
27465
World Ranking
255
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2010 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Earth Sciences
  • 2009 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

Overview

Klaus Mezger is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research work primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Physics and Astronomy, with notable contributions in subfields including Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Ecology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their work covers several main topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Planetary Science and Exploration, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Some of Klaus Mezger's recent publications include:

  • Accretion of the Earth-Missing Components? (2020), published in Space Science Reviews
  • Accretion and differentiation of early planetary bodies as recorded in the composition of the silicate Earth (2021), published in Icarus

Their frequent co-authors include Aryavart Anand with whom they collaborated on 15 publications, O. P. Pandey (11 publications), Dewashish Upadhyay (10 publications), Arathy Ravindran (9 publications), and P. Wurz (8 publications).

Klaus Mezger has published extensively in several scientific journals and conference venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Icarus
  • Chemical Geology

Their academic recognition includes being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2017, membership in the Academia Europaea since 2015, and election to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2010 for Earth Sciences. Additionally, they received the Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Calibration of the lutetium-hafnium clock.

    Erik Scherer;Carsten Münker;Klaus Mezger

  • Rapid accretion and early core formation on asteroids and the terrestrial planets from Hf-W chronometry.

    T. Kleine;C. Münker;K. Mezger;H. Palme

  • Interpretation of discordant U-Pb zircon ages: An evaluation

    Klaus Mezger;E. J. Krogstad

  • Hf-W chronology of the accretion and early evolution of asteroids and terrestrial planets

    Thorsten Kleine;Mathieu Touboul;Bernard Bourdon;Francis Nimmo

  • Separation of high field strength elements (Nb, Ta, Zr, Hf) and Lu from rock samples for MC‐ICPMS measurements

    Carsten Münker;Stefan Weyer;Erik Scherer;Klaus Mezger

  • Evolution of planetary cores and the Earth-Moon system from Nb/Ta systematics.

    Carsten Münker;Jörg A. Pfänder;Stefan Weyer;Anette Büchl

  • U-Pb Garnet, Sphene, Monazite, and Rutile Ages: Implications for the Duration of High-Grade Metamorphism and Cooling Histories, Adirondack Mts., New York

    Klaus Mezger;C. M. Rawnsley;S. R. Bohlen;G. N. Hanson

  • Nb/Ta and Zr/Hf in ocean island basalts — Implications for crust–mantle differentiation and the fate of Niobium

    Jörg A. Pfänder;Carsten Münker;Carsten Münker;Andreas Stracke;Klaus Mezger

  • The Preparation and Preliminary Characterisation of Eight Geological MPI-DING Reference Glasses for In-Situ Microanalysis

    Klaus Peter Jochum;Donald B. Dingwell;Alexander Rocholl;Brigitte Stoll

  • The thermal history of the Eastern Ghats Belt (India) as revealed by U–Pb and 40Ar/39Ar dating of metamorphic and magmatic minerals: implications for the SWEAT correlation

    Klaus Mezger;Michael A Cosca

  • Closure temperatures of the Sm—Nd system in metamorphic garnets

    Klaus Mezger;Eric J. Essene;A. N. Halliday

  • High-precision UPb ages of metamorphic rutile: application to the cooling history of high-grade terranes

    Klaus Mezger;G.N. Hanson;S.R. Bohlen

  • 182Hf-182W isotope systematics of chondrites, eucrites, and martian meteorites: Chronology of core formation and early mantle differentiation in Vesta and Mars

    T. Kleine;Klaus Mezger;C. Münker;H. Palme

  • Early core formation in asteroids and late accretion of chondrite parent bodies: Evidence from 182Hf-182W in CAIs, metal-rich chondrites, and iron meteorites

    Thorsten Kleine;Klaus Mezger;Herbert Palme;Erik Scherer

  • Evolution of the Continental Crust in the Proterozoic Eastern Ghats Belt, India and new constraints for Rodinia reconstruction: implications from Sm–Nd, Rb–Sr and Pb–Pb isotopes ☆

    Karen Rickers;Karen Rickers;Klaus Mezger;Michael M Raith

  • U-Pb systematics of garnet: dating the growth of garnet in the late Archean Pikwitonei granulite domain at Cauchon and Natawahunan Lakes, Manitoba, Canada

    Klaus Mezger;G. N. Hanson;S. R. Bohlen

  • Oceanic plateau model for continental crustal growth in the Archaean: A case study from the Kostomuksha greenstone belt, NW Baltic Shield

    I.S. Puchtel;A.W. Hofmann;Klaus Mezger;K.P. Jochum

  • Iron isotope fractionation during planetary differentiation

    Stefan Weyer;Ariel D. Anbar;Gerhard P. Brey;Carsten Münker

  • Stable isotope compositions of cadmium in geological materials and meteorites determined by multiple-collector ICPMS

    Frank Wombacher;Mark Rehkämper;Klaus Mezger;Carsten Münker

  • Crustal origin of Early Proterozoic syenites in the Congo Craton (Ntem Complex), South Cameroon

    Rigobert Tchameni;K. Mezger;N. E. Nsifa;André Pouclet

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten Münker
Carsten Münker University of Cologne
Erik E. Scherer
Erik E. Scherer University of Münster
Jasper Berndt
Jasper Berndt University of Münster
Peter Wurz
Peter Wurz University of Bern
Thorsten Kleine
Thorsten Kleine Max Planck Society
Eric J. Essene
Eric J. Essene University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stefan Weyer
Stefan Weyer University of Hannover
Addi Bischoff
Addi Bischoff University of Münster
Alex N. Halliday
Alex N. Halliday Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Oliver Nebel
Oliver Nebel Monash University

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