Clarisa Vorster
Department of Geology
Labus Industries
Greece
Biography
​Biography Dr. Clarisa Vorster has a PhD (Geology) and an MSc (Chemistry) from the University of Johannesburg. She was appointed as a lecturer in 2013 upon completion of her PhD. She is a geochronologist specializing in detrital zircon age determinations and provenance determination of sedimentary units. Her PhD research project focused on the U-Pb age determination of detrital zircon populations in the Phanerozoic Cape and Lower Karoo Supergroups by means Laser Ablations ICP-MS. Some of the study areas for this projects includes the Western and Southern Cape, Kwazulu Natal, Southern Argentina and the Falkland Islands. Together with her postgraduate students, her research is currently focused on the U-Pb age determination and provenance of detrital zircons from the smaller basins of the Karoo Supergroup.
Research Interest
Dr. Vorster is also responsible of maintaining the zircon sample preparation- and Laser Ablation ICP-MS laboratories at SPECTRUM (the central analytical facility at UJ), were she is actively involved in training students and technical assistants in zircon sample preparation and LA-ICP-MS analysis of samples. Research interests
