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Overview

Thomas Meisel is affiliated with the University of Leoben in Austria. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Subfields of interest include Geophysics, Mechanical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Materials Chemistry, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics with notable focus areas in Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, earthquake and tectonic studies, Analytical chemistry methods development, Extraction and Separation Processes, and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution.

Frequent publication venues reflecting Thomas Meisel's research output include Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research with 12 publications, SSRN Electronic Journal with 4, as well as multiple papers in Lithos, Metals, and Microplastics.

Collaborations feature prominently in their research, with frequent co-authors such as Thomas Prohaska (8 joint publications), Johanna Irrgeher (6), Christoph Walkner (6), Jochen Vogl (6), and Valerio Funari (5).

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "To Waste or Not to Waste: Questioning Potential Health Risks of Micro- and Nanoplastics with a Focus on Their Ingestion and Potential Carcinogenicity" (2022, Exposure and Health)
  • "New insights into hydrogen trapping and embrittlement in high strength aluminum alloys" (2023, Corrosion Science)
  • "Effects of reactive dissolution of orthopyroxene in producing incompatible element depleted melts and refractory mantle residues during early fore-arc spreading: constraints from ophiolites in eastern Mediterranean" (2020, Lithos)
  • "Determination of 48 elements in 7 plant CRMs by ICP-MS/MS with a focus on technology-critical elements" (2023, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry)
  • "COST Action PRIORITY: An EU Perspective on Micro- and Nanoplastics as Global Issues" (2022, Microplastics)

Best Publications

  • Osmium isotopic compositions of mantle xenoliths: A global perspective

    Thomas Meisel;Richard J Walker;Anthony J Irving;Jean-Pierre Lorand

  • The osmium isotopic composition of the Earth's primitive upper mantle

    T. Meisel;T. Meisel;R. J. Walker;J. W. Morgan

  • Evidence for a gradual rise of oxygen between 2.6 and 2.5 Ga from Mo isotopes and Re-PGE signatures in shales

    Martin Wille;Jan Kramers;Thomas Nägler;N.J. Beukes

  • Reference materials for geochemical PGE analysis: new analytical data for Ru, Rh, Pd, Os, Ir, Pt and Re by isotope dilution ICP-MS in 11 geological reference materials

    Thomas Meisel;Johann Moser

  • Petrology of Al- and Cr-rich ophiolitic chromitites from the Muğla, SW Turkey: implications from composition of chromite, solid inclusions of platinum-group mineral, silicate, and base-metal mineral, and Os-isotope geochemistry

    İbrahim Uysal;Mahmud Tarkian;M. Burhan Sadiklar;Federica Zaccarini

  • Coexistence of abyssal and ultra-depleted SSZ type mantle peridotites in a Neo-Tethyan Ophiolite in SW Turkey: Constraints from mineral composition, whole-rock geochemistry (major–trace–REE–PGE), and Re–Os isotope systematics

    İbrahim Uysal;E. Yalçın Ersoy;Orhan Karslı;Yildirim Dilek

  • A simple procedure for the determination of platinum group elements and rhenium (Ru, Rh, Pd, Re, Os, Ir and Pt) using ID-ICP-MS with an inexpensive on-line matrix separation in geological and environmental materials

    Thomas Meisel;Norbert Fellner;Johann Moser

  • Geochemistry and tectonomagmatic affinity of the Yungbwa ophiolite, SW Tibet

    Christine Miller;Martin Thöni;Wolfgang Frank;Ralf Schuster

  • Simplified method for the determination of Ru, Pd, Re, Os, Ir and Pt in chromitites and other geological materials by isotope dilution ICP-MS and acid digestion.

    Thomas Meisel;Johann Moser;Norbert Fellner;Wolfhard Wegscheider

  • Comparison between Nickel‐Sulfur Fire Assay Te Co‐precipitation and Isotope Dilution with High‐Pressure Asher Acid Digestion for the Determination of Platinum‐Group Elements, Rhenium and Gold

    Dany Savard;Sarah-Jane Barnes;Thomas Meisel

  • PGE, Re-Os, and Mo isotope systematics in Archean and early Proterozoic sedimentary systems as proxies for redox conditions of the early Earth

    C. Siebert;J.D. Kramers;Th. Meisel;Ph. Morel

  • Petrogenesis and geotectonic setting of ultramafic rocks in the Eastern Alps: Constraints from geochemistry.

    Frank Melcher;Thomas Meisel;Jürgen Puhl;Fritz Koller

  • Re-Os systematics of UB-N, a serpentinized peridotite reference material

    Thomas Meisel;Laurie Reisberg;Johann Moser;Jean Carignan

  • Mid-ocean ridge and supra-subduction geochemical signatures in spinel–peridotites from the Neotethyan ophiolites in SW Turkey: Implications for upper mantle melting processes

    E. Aldanmaz;M.W. Schmidt;A. Gourgaud;Thomas Meisel

  • Re-evaluating digestion methods for highly siderophile element and 187Os isotope analysis: Evidence from geological reference materials

    Akira Ishikawa;Akira Ishikawa;Ryoko Senda;Katsuhiko Suzuki;Christopher W. Dale

  • Synthesis of PGE sulfide standards for laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)

    Cora C. Wohlgemuth-Ueberwasser;Cora C. Wohlgemuth-Ueberwasser;Chris Ballhaus;Jasper Berndt;Vaida Stotter née Paliulionyte

  • PGE enrichment in chromitite layers and the Merensky Reef of the western Bushveld Complex; a Re-Os and Rb-Sr isotope study.

    Ronny Schoenberg;F. Johan Kruger;Thomas Nägler;Thomas Meisel

  • Determination of anthropogenic input of Ru, Rh, Pd, Re, Os, Ir and Pt in soils along Austrian motorways by isotope dilution ICP-MS.

    Johannes Fritsche;Thomas Meisel

  • The Jurassic South Albanian ophiolites: MOR- vs. SSZ-type ophiolites

    Volker Hoeck;Friedrich Koller;Thomas Meisel;Kutjim Onuzi

  • Abundance and distribution of platinum-group elements in orogenic lherzolites; a case study in a Fontete Rouge lherzolite (French Pyrenees)

    Jean Pierre Lorand;Ambre Luguet;Olivier Alard;Antoine Bezos

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Melcher
Frank Melcher University of Leoben
Ibrahim Uysal
Ibrahim Uysal Karadeniz Technical University
Friedrich Koller
Friedrich Koller University of Vienna
Thomas F. Nägler
Thomas F. Nägler University of Bern
Christian Koeberl
Christian Koeberl University of Vienna
Jon D. Woodhead
Jon D. Woodhead University of Melbourne
Michel Grégoire
Michel Grégoire Paul Sabatier University
Yildirim Dilek
Yildirim Dilek Miami University
Vincenzo Morra
Vincenzo Morra University of Naples Federico II
Richard J. Walker
Richard J. Walker University of Maryland, College Park

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